Before that, he was with the Architecture Definition Group (ADG) at Micron Semiconductors where he worked on modeling and performance analysis of DRAM architectures, including the Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC). Manu earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Utah, and a Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT (BHU), Varanasi. He is the author of several conference and journal publications, including two best paper awards.