Prior to joining BU, Neha was an assistant professor in the department of sociology and school of communication at The Ohio State University. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from Rutgers University in 2013 and her M.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics in 2005. She uses quantitative and mathematical techniques to study culture and stratification through the lens of social networks. She is particularly interested in investigating how micro-level cultural and structural processes concatenate to generate macro-level network structures.