Kiran Garimella

Garimella is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University. Prior to that, he was the Michael Hammer Post-doc at the Institute for Data, Society and Systems at MIT. Prior to that he spent a year working with Prof. Robert West in the Data science lab at EPFL. He finished his PhD at Aalto University, Helsinki, under the supervision of Prof. Aris Gionis. His PhD thesis was on identifying and countering online polarization using algorithmic techniques. Garimella's research interests include Social Computing, Computational Social Science, Graphs, Data Mining, and Machine Learning.
His current research is focused on building innovative, opt-in, privacy preserving data-collection tools for platforms like WhatsApp, with the goal of developing interventions to stop/slow the spread of misinformation.