She is a Professor of Physical Sciences, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Howard Reiss Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Narang also received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2020, was named a Moore Inventor Fellow by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for the development for a fundamentally new strategy for single molecule sensing and environmental toxin metrology using picoscale quantum sensors,[6] CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and a Top Innovator by MIT Tech Review (MIT TR35).

Narang was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023 [7] and elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2024.

[16][17] Narang earned her Bachelor's degree in materials science at Drexel University,[18] where she worked under the supervision of Yury Gogotsi on nanomaterial design.

and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) working with Harry A. Atwater on light-matter interactions.

[25] In 2017, Narang was appointed to the faculty of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

[27][28] A precise understanding of light-matter interactions might allow the design of novel catalytic systems, where energy transfer pathways and the energetic landscape of chemical reactions can be manipulated through the coupling of light and matter.