I am a graduate student advised by Prof. Jeremy Tyson at University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. This year, academic year 2026-27, I am on the job market!

My primary research interests are analysis on metric spaces and geometric group theory. I am also interested in exploring problems in optimization theory, especially on dimension reduction of sampling data for design of experiments.

I have been awarded a STEM fellowship AAUW and an interdisciplinary grant Margaret McNamara Education Grant (by the World Bank).

I am currently the Illinois Mathematics (Geometry) Lab research manager. I am always happy to talk about research, undergraduate research and outreach, so please feel free to reach out. 

Email: manisha8[at]illinois[dot]edu