Dr. Manuj Mukherjee received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science in 2017. Following his PhD, he did a couple of stints as a postdoc, at Telecom Paris, France, and at Bar Ilan University, Israel. He has regularly published in top tier journals and conferences of IEEE Information Theory Society. He is the recipient of the Seshagiri Kaikini Medal from the Electrical Communication Engineering department of the Indian Institute of Science for the best PhD thesis in the year 2017-2018.

His research interests include the broad neighborhood of information theory in general with a particular focus on multiparty communication.