Manish is currently a Ph.D. student in the Computer and Information Science Department of the University of Oregon. After graduating with an M.S from the University of Oregon in 2018, he spent almost 3 years at Microsoft working on Microsoft Teams apps. Before joining the University of Oregon, he worked for 5 years, with 3 years as a game developer in India. As part of his M.S, he produced a thesis titled "A Tile-Based Approach For Photo-Realistic Volume Rendering."