Neha Narula is a digital currency researcher and technologist who directs the Digital Currency Initiative at MIT Media Lab, focusing on cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and central bank digital currencies. Neha Narula's Twitter Score is 227 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of September 2026, ranking #1,846 (top 0.5%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Neha Narula has led the Digital Currency Initiative at MIT Media Lab since January 2017, building it into a prominent research center for distributed systems and digital money. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Block, Inc., a role she took on in July 2023. Her advisory work extends to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Innovation Advisory Council and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's FinTech Industry Committee. She is also affiliated with Decentralized Society (DeSoc@MIT). Previously, she served as a member of PayPal's Blockchain and Digital Currencies Advisory Council.
Neha Narula previously worked at Google as a Senior Software Engineer and at Digg as a Data Scientist before moving into academic research. She holds a PhD from MIT CSAIL. Neha Narula's account has published 6,029 posts and has 46,250 followers as of September 2026. She has been mentioned by 294 accounts, with 712 total mentions.
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