Prineha graduated from Caltech with a PhD in applied physics. She did her undergraduate work at Drexel University in materials science and engineering and worked at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center. At Drexel, she served as president of their Engineers Without Borders chapter. Prior to Caltech, her research had been rooted in addressing the need for improved energy storage solutions and she focused on developing commercially viable, sustainable, low cost battery systems. At Caltech, she worked as part of JCAP investigating light absorbers. In 2014, Prineha won the Dow-SISCA Runner-up Prize for the project, "Light Capture, Conversion & Catalysis Strategies for an Integrated Photosynthetic Solar-Fuels Generator via New Materials Physics".
Prineha is currently a professor at UCLA.
RSI Research: Tetranuclear, Homo- and Heterometallic Clusters for Dioxygen Reduction
