Manas Thakur is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay.
His research interests include program analysis, compiler optimizations, and programming languages.

Manas holds PhD and Masters degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Madras.
His thesis titled "Precise and Efficient Analysis of Java Programs" won one of the institute research awards and (jointly) the IBM Best Thesis Award in 2019-20.
Prior to joining IITB, Manas was at IIT Mandi for three years, wherein he received the Teaching Honour Roll Award in 2021; and recently, he was honoured with the Faculty of the Year 2024 award by IBM Centre for Advanced Studies.

Manas's research group at IIT Bombay, named CompL [pronunciation: Compel], specializes in JIT compilers and has developed efficient optimization strategies for Java, JavaScript and R.