Neel received his bachelors from NITW in 2010 and subsequently his PhD from IIT-Madras in 2016. His primary interests lie in Micro architecture, processor design, RISC-V, compliance and verification.

Neel was amongst the founders of the SHAKTI processor program initiative at IIT-Madras which started in 2013. Neel has also been active contributor to the open source HW community. Recently Neel co-founded InCore semiconductors with a primary focus on commercializing open-source HW.