Neha commenced her PhD with the Urban Nexus Lab in 2022. Through interdisciplinary research, she wants to help shape resource-efficient, climate-responsive, and just approaches to water and wastewater management. Besides her research, she is also involved with the Metropolis Initiative and the TigerWell Initiative, and serves as the Vice President of International Water Association's Young Water Professionals India chapter.

Before coming to Princeton, Neha worked as a Research Associate with the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), India. At CPR, she researched non-networked sanitation systems at the intersection of engineering, urban planning, and public policy. She also collaborated with government offices, regulators, and industry to find new ways to improve praxis. As an example, she worked with the Bureau of Indian Standards to draft a set of technical standards for rotomolded septic tanks. She holds a Master of Technology in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.