Aravinda (Ari) Garimella

Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Ethics and Professional Responsibility Scholar

Biography

Aravinda Garimella is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Gies College of Business. She has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology in India and a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Washington in Seattle. Before pursuing a doctoral degree in information systems, she worked as technology and management consultant with clients in the telecom, healthcare and public sectors in Asia and Europe, where she led several digital transformation projects. Aravinda’s research is at the intersection of technology and access. Her work helps practitioners design better and more equitable digital platforms and systems for communities and organizations. Her research stream in Responsible Artificial Intelligence examines AI-enabled task augmentation and how algorithmic inputs influence human decision making in decentralized financial markets, social media, and consumer relationships. Through her research and teaching, Aravinda is working to advance the role of ethics in the design, deployment and management of algorithms in society.

Contact

415 Wohlers Hall

1206 S Sixth St

Champaign, IL 61820

217-300-8211

aravinda@illinois.edu

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Educational Background

PhD, Business Administration, University of Washington, 2018
M.S., Information Systems, University of Washington, 2015
B.E., Computer Science, Birla Institute of Technology, 2005

Positions Held

Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019 to present
Instructor of Business Administration, Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018-2019
Senior Consultant, Ernst & Young, 2010-2012
ERP Consultant, British Telecommunications, 2008-2009
ERP Consultant, Claire's Accessories, 2007-2008
Developer, Oracle Corporation, 2005-2007

Recent Publications

Zhang, Z., Garimella, A., & Fan, M. Forthcoming. Leveraging the Social Fabric to Lower Participation Barriers for E-Commerce Participation in Rural Areas. Production and Operations Management.

Other Publications

Articles

Sun, R., Garimella, A., Han, W., Chang, H., & Shaw, M. (2020). Transformation of the Transaction Cost and the Agency Cost in an Organization and the Applicability of Blockchain—A Case Study of Peer-to-Peer Insurance. Frontiers in Blockchain. link >

Conference Proceedings

Garimella, A. (2022). Creating an Engaging Doctoral Seminar: Ideas for Junior Faculty. Americas Conference on Information Systems, Minneapolis. link >
Larson, E., Han, W., & Garimella, A. (2022). Driving Innovation in IS Research through the Technology, Research, Education, and Opinion (TREO) Lightning Presentations. Americas Conference on Information Systems, Minneapolis MN.
Wu, A., Garimella, A., Subramanyam, R., & Ahsen, M. (2022). Disaster Management Through Digital Platforms: Online Crowdfunding Communities Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic. HICSS.
Basu, S., Garimella, A., Han, W., & Dennis, A. (2021). Human Decision Making in AI Augmented Systems: Evidence from the Initial Coin Offering Market. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. link >
Wu, A., Garimella, A., & Subramanyam, R. (2021). Could government measures crowd out grassroots philanthropy? Empirical evidence from an education crowdfunding platform. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. link >
Basu, S., Garimella, A., & Han, W. (2019). Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Human Decision Making in ICO Platform International Conference on Information Systems. link >
Garimella, A., Fan, M., Kotha, S., & You, W. (2018). Launch on a high note: how prefunding strategies affect crowdfunding outcomes. International Conference on Information Systems. link >

Presentations

Garimella, A., & Tiwari, A. (2023). It Takes a Village: Contextualized and Community-Engaged EdTech Interventions in Rural India. Conference on the Digital Economy (CODE.
Wu, A., Garimella, A., & Subramanyam, R. (2022). Effects of ESSA on Online Crowdfunding. INFORMS Annual Conference 2022, INFORMS.
Wu, A., Garimella, A., Subramanyam, R., & Ahsen, M. (2022). Disaster Management Through Digital Platforms : Online Crowdfunding Communities Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS.
Garimella, A., Wu, A., & Subramanyam, R. (2021). Unintended Consequences : The Effect of Education Policy Announcements on Online Philanthropy. CMU-Pitt Seminar on Information Technology & Economics.
Basu, S., Garimella, A., Han, W., & Dennis, A. (2021). Asymmetric Influence in AI-Augmented Systems: Evidence from the Initial Coin Offering Market. HICSS 2021.
Wu, A., Garimella, A., & Subramanyam, R. (2021). Disaster Management Through Digital Platforms : Online Crowdfunding Communities Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Workshop on Information Systems Economics (WISE.
Wu, A., Garimella, A., & Subramanyam, R. (2021). Unintended Consequences: An Empirical Examination of Educational Policy Announcements Affecting Private Donations. HICSS 2021.
Wu, A., Garimella, A., & Subramanyam, R. (2020). Unintended Consequences: An Empirical Examination of Educational Policy Announcements Affecting Private Donations. CIST 2020.
Garimella, A., You, W., & Fan, M. (2018). Awareness or Persuasion? How Free Samples Affect Crowdfunding Performance. WEB 2018.
Garimella, A., You, W., & Fan, M. (2018). Try Before You Back: The Effect of Free Trials on Crowdfunding Performance. INFORMS 2018.
Garimella, A., Fan, M., Kotha, S., & You, W. (2017). Launch on a High Note: How Prefunding Strategies Affect Crowdfunding Outcomes. ICIS 2017.
Garimella, A., & Fan, M. (2017). What Makes Takers Give and Givers Take?: The effect of reciprocity styles on student participation on MOOCs. INFORMS 2017.
Garimella, A., Fan, M., Kotha, S., & You, W. (2017). Launch on a High Note: How Prefunding Strategies Affect Crowdfunding Outcomes. CIST 2017.
Garimella, A., Fan, M., Kotha, S., & You, W. (2017). Launch on a High Note: How Prefunding Strategies Affect Crowdfunding Outcomes. CSWIM 2017.
Garimella, A., & Fan, M. (2017). What Makes Takers Give and Givers Take?: The effect of reciprocity styles on student participation on MOOCs. POMS 2017.
Garimella, A., & Fan, M. (2015). Reciprocal Altruism or Indirect Reciprocity: What induces students to cooperate on MOOCs? Winter Conference on Business Intelligence 2015.

Working Papers

Garimella, A., & Tiwari, A. Technology Interventions for Resource-Constrained Environments with Structural Inequalities: Enabling Learning Continuity in Rural India During a Pandemic.
Fan, M., Garimella, A., & Zhang, Z. Leveraging the Social Fabric to Lower E-Commerce Participation Barriers.
Ahsen, M., & Garimella, A. Can Explainable AI Aid Fake News Detection?: A Series of Randomized Controlled Experiments.
Wu, A., Garimella, A., & Subramanyam, R. When Top-Down Meets Bottom-Up: How Governmental Devolution Affects Online Giving Behavior. link >
Wu, A., Garimella, A., Subramanyam, R., & Ahsen, M. Keeping Kids Learning: Online Crowdfunding Communities Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic. link >
Lin, Y., Yang, S., Garimella, A., & Shaw, M. Past, Present, And Future Focus in Entrepreneurial Narratives: Does Language Temporal Structure Influence Fundraising Performance.
Basu, S., Garimella, A., Han, W., & Dennis, A. The Asymmetric Influence of AI-Augmented Systems. link >
Garimella, A., Fan, M., Kotha, S., & You, W. Launch on a High Note: How Prelaunch Affects Crowdfunding Outcomes. link >

Honors and Awards

Ethics and Professional Responsibility Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2024 to present
Top 50 Undergraduate Professors, Poets & Quants, 2020 to present
Deloitte Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2023-2024
RC Evans Data Analytics Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2022-2023
INFORMS ISS Cluster Best Session Chair Award, INFORMS, 2022-2022
Teachers Ranked as Outstanding, Spring 2021, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021-2021
Teachers Ranked as Outstanding, Spring 2022, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021-2021
Teachers Ranked as Excellent, Spring 2020, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020-2020

Grants

Algorithmic Transparency and Consumer Inclusion, Gies College of Business, 2022-2026
Can Explainable Artificial Intelligence Aid Fake News Detection?, Illinois Campus Research Board, 2021-2023
Human-machine Interaction and the Effects on Cognitive Bias: A Series of Randomized Control Trials, The Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society, 2021-2022
Media Slant and the Spread of Misinformation on Twitter, The Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society, 2021 to present

Research Interests

Digital Platforms, Online Communities, Human-AI Interaction

Current Courses

Database Design and Management (BADM 352) Introduce the modern concepts, techniques and management practices when dealing with data and use of data in organizations. Topics include data modeling, database logical and physical designs, implementation, database administration and web-based database environment. Students will be involved in constructing a database and researching an advanced topic to solidify the learning.
AI in Business & Society (BADM 590) Special topics in the general area of business. Topics are selected by the instructor at the beginning of each term.
Proseminar in Informat Systems (BADM 591) Lectures in topics of current interest not covered by regular course offerings. Subjects are announced in the Class Schedule.
Proseminar in IOSA (BADM 591) Lectures in topics of current interest not covered by regular course offerings. Subjects are announced in the Class Schedule.