Faculty/Staff
Kiran Garimella

Assistant Professor of Instruction
kgarimella@usf.edu
Room: CIS 2077
Phone: (262) 909-4192
Kiran Garimella is an assistant professor of instruction in the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏSchool of Information Systems, which is part of the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏMuma College of Business. His research interests include blockchain and machine learning, specifically on the integration of machine learning into distributed ledger technology (blockchain), functional security of blockchain applications, dynamic consensus mechanisms, dynamic allocation of multiparty blockchain channels in supply chains, and distributed ecosystem formation.
Garimella has published several papers in IEEE, INFORMS, and WITS, the latest one being "Enhancing Trust in Business Ecosystems with Blockchain Technology" in the IEEE Engineering Management Review, 2020.
He has extensive corporate experience as a C-level executive, serving as Global CIO for General Electric and vice president and chief evangelist for business process management at Software AG. He consults actively as a strategist and thought-leader, including chief scientist at KoreConX, where he leads the strategy for building the world's largest enterprise ecosystem for the global private capital markets on an AI-based permissioned blockchain platform. The platform is deployed in 23 countries with a processing capacity of 10 billion transactions per year.