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Prineha Narang (born September 27, 1989) [1] is an American physicist and computational material scientist. She is a Professor of Physical Sciences and Howard Reiss Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Narang currently serves as a U.S. Science Envoy [2] approved by the Secretary of State to identify opportunities for science and technology cooperation.[3] Before moving to UCLA, she was first an Environmental Fellow at Harvard University Center for the Environment[4] 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,[5] 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,[6] 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.[7]
She was selected as a Moore Inventor Fellow,[8][9] 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[10][11] leading efforts at the intersection of computational science, condensed matter theory, quantum photonics, and quantum information science.[11] Her upcoming move was recently covered by Inside Quantum Technology,[12] profiled by California Institute of Technology (Caltech)[13] and UCLA.
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