Prineha Narang

Prineha Narang
Prineha Narang
	Narang in 2025 at NASEM Government-University-Industry-Philanthropy Research Roundtable
Born	September 27, 1989
Alma mater	Drexel University; California Institute of Technology;
	Scientific career
Fields	Computational Physics; Condensed Matter Physics; Theoretical Chemistry; Computational Materials Science; Photonics; Quantum Information Science; Plasmonics;
Institutions	University of California, Los Angeles; Harvard University;
Thesis	Light-Matter Interactions in Semiconductors and Metals: From Nitride Optoelectronics to Quantum Plasmonics (2015)
Doctoral advisors	Harry Atwater;
Other academic advisors	Postdoctoral Advisors Marin Soljacic; John Joannopoulos;

Prineha Narang (born September 27, 1989) is an American physicist and computational material scientist. She is a Professor of Physical Sciences, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Howard Reiss Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Narang currently serves as a U.S. Science Envoy approved by the Secretary of State to identify opportunities for science and technology cooperation. Before moving to UCLA, she was first an Environmental Fellow at Harvard University Center for the Environment and then an Assistant Professor in the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University.

Since 2022, she has been at UCLA as the Howard Reiss Development Chair leading efforts at the intersection of computational science, condensed matter theory, quantum photonics, and quantum information science.

Narang is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of Aliro, a quantum network platform company.