• B. Tech (2003) and M. Tech (2006), in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Lonere
• Ph.D. (2020), in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur. Thesis Title: Age Estimation using Manifold Feature Representation and Hierarchical Learning.

• Assistant Professor, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala (Dec-2022 - till date).
• Adhoc Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur (July- 2019- May 2022)
• Assistant Professor in  Department of Electronics and Communication, K J Somaiya College of Engineering, Mumbai (June 2007-Dec 2013)

Journal Articles

2022

• Neeraj Dhanraj Bokde, Prajwal Kailasnath Patil, Saradindu Sengupta, Manisha Sawant, Andres E. Feijoo-Lorenzo,VedicDateTime:An R Package to Implement Vedic Calendar System, (Under Review).
• Sawant Manisha, and Patil R., Shikhare T., Nagle S., Chavan S.; Negi S.;, and Bokde N.D.,A Selective Review on Recent Advancements in Long, Short and Ultra-Short-Term Wind Power Prediction., InEnergies, Vol 15, MDPI, 2022(Impact Factor: 3.252).
• Sawant Manisha and Kishor Bhurchandi. Discriminative aging subspace learning for age estimation. Soft Computing. Springer, 2022, ( Impact Factor:3.524 ).

2021

• Sawant Manisha, Thakare Sameer, Rao A Prabhakara, Feijóo-Lorenzo Andrés E, andBokde Neeraj Dhanraj. A review on state-of-the-art reviews in wind-turbine-and wind-farm-related topics. Energies, volume 14, page 2041. MDPI, 2021, ( Impact Factor:3.004 ).
• Sawant Manisha, Shende Mayur Kishor, Feijóo-Lorenzo Andrés E, and Bokde Neeraj Dhanraj.The state-of-the-art progress in cloud detection, identification, and tracking approaches: A systematic review. Energies, volume 14, page 8119. MDPI, 2021, ( Impact Factor:3.004 ).

2019

• Sawant Manisha and Bhurchandi Kishor. Hierarchical facial age estimation using gaussian process regression. IEEE Access, volume 7, pages 9142–9152. IEEE, 2019, ( Impact Factor:3.367 ).
• Sawant Manisha, Shalini Addepalli, and Kishor Bhurchandi. Age estimation using local direction and moment pattern (ldmp) features. Multimedia Tools and Applications, volume 78, pages 30419–30441. Springer, 2019, ( Impact Factor:2.757 ).

2018

• Sawant Manisha and Kishor M Bhurchandi. Age invariant face recognition: a survey on facialaging databases, techniques and effect of aging. Artificial Intelligence Review, volume 52, pages 981–1008. Springer, 2018, ( Impact Factor:11.67 ).

In Conference Proceedings

• Shivani Kshatriya, Sawant Manisha, and KM Bhurchandi. Feature selection and feature manifold for age estimation. In International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing, pages 112–123. Springer, 2020.
• Parlewar Manisha, Hemprasad Patil, and Kishor Bhurchandi. A novel quantized gradient direction based face image representation and recognition technique. In 2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC), pages 1–6. IEEE, 2016.