Beny Neta obtained his BS and MS degrees from Tel Aviv University, and his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University, under the supervision of George J. Fix. He held several positions in industry prior to attending Carnegie-Mellon. After graduation, he held academic positions at Northern Illinois University and Texas Tech University. Currently, he is a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He has taught and coordinated courses in computational mathematics. In addition, he has supervised three PhD dissertations, has been an external examiner for several PhD dissertations, and has advised students on numerous MS theses. He has also developed several lecture notes on partial differential equations and the numerical solution of nonlinear equations. Beny has served as the associate chairman for research, and later as academic associate, for the Applied Mathematics Department. He has a joint appointment with the Space Systems Academic Group, and has published numerous technical papers in the area of orbit prediction. He also introduced the use of parallel computation to orbit propagation.

He is an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, and a member of the European Society of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (ESCMSE). Beny is also a member of the AIAA Technical Committee on Astrodynamics.

Beny has been named a senior research associate of the National Research Council, and has served as an advisor for the program for almost 20 years. As an advisor, he has attracted several post-doctoral and senior research associates. He is on the editorial board of Applied Mathematics and Computation, as well as three other electronic journals.

He has authored over 120 scientific articles, book chapters, and books, and has received multiple awards. He has been a guest editor, reviewer, and program committee member of various conferences. He has been a reviewer for Mathematical Reviews and Computing Reviews.