Mani is also known as: आचार्य इन्द्रजित् मणि . His prior affiliations (related to work in AI, NLP, Linguistics, and Narrative Theory) have included Georgetown University (Associate Professor), Yahoo (Senior Director), Cambridge University (Visiting Fellow), MITRE (Senior Principal Scientist), Brandeis University (Visiting Scholar), MIT (Research Affiliate), among others. He is the author of two novels, six scholarly books, nearly fifty shorter literary pieces and a hundred-odd scientific papers.