Prineha Narang

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. Narang’s work has been recognized internationally by many awards and a variety of special designations, including the Mildred Dresselhaus Prize, the 2021 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Computational Physics, a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (Bessel Prize) from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and a Max Planck Sabbatical Award from the Max Planck Society. Narang also received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2020, was named a Moore Inventor Fellow by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for the development for a fundamentally new strategy for single molecule sensing and environmental toxin metrology using picoscale quantum sensors, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and a Top Innovator by MIT Tech Review (MIT TR35). Narang was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023 and elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2024.

She was selected as a Moore Inventor Fellow, and as one of Forbes 30 Under 30. Narang is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of Aliro, a quantum network platform company. 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. Her upcoming move was recently covered by Inside Quantum Technology, profiled by California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and UCLA.

Narang was elected to the Caltech Board of Trustees in 2023. Provided by Wikipedia