Manish received the IBM Faculty Award (2008), the Rutgers Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research ( The Award ) (2004-2005), the NSF CAREER Award (1999),  TICAM ( University of Texas at Austin )  Distinguished Fellowship (1999-2001), Enrico Fermi Scholarship, Argonne National Laboratory (1996), is a senior member of IEEE / IEEE Computer Society ,  and a senior member of ACM . He is also the Vice Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and a member of the executive committee of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) and part of the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor Program (2004-2007).

Manish is the co-founder of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) , member of the editorial board for " IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems " (IEEE Computer Society Press), " Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience " (John Wiley & Sons), " Cluster Computing, The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications " (Kluwer Academic Publishers),  " Multiagent and Grid Systems " (IOS Press) , the " International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing " (Inderscience Publishers)  and the " International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems " ( Inderscience Publishers ), and is a member of the steering committees for the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) , International Conference on Grid Computing (ICGC/GridXY) (Chair), IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) , IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGridXY) , IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS) , IEEE Workshop on Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE) , the SCS High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC) , the International Conference on Self-Organization and Autonomic Systems in Computing and Communications , and Autonomic Computing Workshop ( International Workshop on Active Middleware Services) . He is on the program committees of over 150 international conference and workshops (14 as General Chair, 12 as Program Chair/Vice Chair). He has also served as a panelist for NSF, DoE and other funding agencies, and regularly reviews technical articles for journals and conferences.

Manish has co-authored over 175 technical papers in international journals and conferences, over 75 invited papers and presentations, has co-authored 5 books and 18 book chapters, has edited 12 conference proceeding and has edited 7 journal special issues. He has also developed and deployed several software systems including AutoMate (Accord, Rudder/Comet, Meteor, Squid,  Topos, Pawn, DAIS, SESAME), Seine , GrACE/DAGH , MACE , Discover , Pragma/ ARMaDA and the CORBA CoG Kit . His research and software was recently part of the Help Defeat Cancer Project on the IBM World Community Grid .

Manish received a BE degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from Bombay University , India, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University .