Kiran Garimella

Kiran Garimella is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at MIT. Before joining MIT, he was a postdoc at EPFL, Switzerland. His research focuses on using digital data for social good, including areas like polarization, misinformation and human migration. His work on studying and mitigating polarization on social media won the best paper awards at various conferences. Kiran received his PhD at Aalto University, Finland, and Masters & Bachelors from IIIT Hyderabad, India. Prior to his PhD, he worked as a Research Engineer at Yahoo Research, Barcelona, and Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha. More info: https://users.ics.aalto.fi/kiran/

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