Kiran Garimella is Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University.

His broad 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 such as WhatsApp, with the goal of developing interventions to stop/slow the spread of misinformation. Prior to his position at Rutgers University, he worked for a year with Robert West in the Data science lab at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), and was subsequently the Michael Hammer Post-doc at the Institute for Data, Society and Systems at MIT. He received his PhD from Aalto University, Helsinki, under the supervision of Aris Gionis. Before starting his PhD, he worked at Yahoo Research and Qatar Computing Research Institute for several years.

At the invitation of Prof Dr Sahana Udupa (Ethnology, LMU), he is a Visiting Fellow at CAS and part of the CAS Research Group Below the Radar? Messaging Apps, Encryption and the Enticement of Extreme Speech.