Dr. Manish Tiwari received Ph.D. in ECE in the field of Photonics from MNIT Jaipur. Presently, he is Professor and Head of Department of ECE at Manipal University Jaipur.  He has more than 25 years of professional experience in various colleges and universities of repute. He has published more than 100+ research papers in reputed journals and conferences, and book chapters. He has also authored and edited more than a dozen of books. He has also supervised more than 30 projects sponsored by DST Rajasthan.

He is principal investigator in a BRICS project on Quantum Satellite and Fiber Communication (QuSaF) alongwith research partners in UKZN Durban, PSUTI Samara and USTC Shanghai. He has also served on panel of experts and editor in various workshops by CSTT, MHRD, Govt. of India. He has been visiting researcher to City University, London under UKIERI project in Microstructured Optical Fibers during 2010 and 2011 and Tsinghua University, Beijing during 2016. Dr. Tiwari has presented talks in PIERS at NTU Singapore, APMP at PolyU-Hong Kong, TJMW at KMUT-Bangkok and Kasetsart University-Bangkok, City University- London and several UKIERI workshops.

He is on the panel of Traveling Lecturer Program of reputed societies like SPIE (USA) and OSA (USA) under which he has delivered invited talks in USTC Shanghai, UESTC Chengdu, Tsinghua University Beijing, ITS Indonesia, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban (SA) on photonics technologies and career development.

He is a Senior Member of IEEE and IEEE Photonics Society, Life Fellow of the Optical Society of India (OSI-India), Senior Member of OSA, Member of SPIE and Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) India.  He has been Technical Program Committee member of many IEEE conferences and reviewer of IEEE/Elsevier/OSA/Springer/T&F journals.

His current research interest includes Free Space and Optical Fiber Communication, Photonics, Nonlinear Optics, Optical Sensors, Specialty Optical Fibers, Space Division Multiplexing, Structured Light, Photonic Crystal Fiber for nonlinear applications, Space Division Multiplexing and Sensing. Photonic Switching.