Neha Narula is the director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative. She is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Neha attended Dartmouth College and earned her B.A. in computer science and mathematics in 2003. She recieved he M.S. in computer science from MIT as well as her Ph.D. from MIT in 2015. He Ddoctoral thesis was titled Parallel Execution for Conflicting Transcactions.

For over seven and a half years, Neha was a Senior Software Engineer at Google. In the summer of 2012, Neha was a Data Scientist at Digg. She has been a Director of Research of Digital Currency at the MIT Media Lab since 2016 and the Director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative since 2017.