Empowering the youth through technology-enabled personalized teaching and learning has always been the focus for Praveen Garimella. He has sought to realize this goal through the different roles he has played as a learning facilitator. As the current Associate Dean of the Consortium of Institutions of Higher Learning (CIHL), he has designed and executed more interactive learning methods to improve learning efficacy and learner competency. He is a former Associate Director at the Centre for Education Technology and Learning Science (CETLS) and the Co-Founder of Carnegie LbD and Tara Mobile Technologies.

In addition to holding advanced degrees in Software Engineering, he is pursuing his doctorate from the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), India, and is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. His areas of research interest pertain to the use of AI for Education.