His research interests include understanding the movement of things: humans, other animals and machines, obtaining a simple and tractable, yet complete, theory of legged locomotion and sensorimotor control in humans and other animals and a mixture of mathematics, modeling, computation and experiments. Manoj received a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras and received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2006. He was a post-doctoral researcher from 2006-2009 at Princeton University and a lecturer in 2007. He won the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2013.