Kiran is the CEO at UnitX, a KAUST startup, which helps enterprises adopt AI rapidly through its online platform. He was a Leader of Tomorrow at the St. Gallen Symposium and is a recipient of the Cornell Entrepreneurship Certificate. He graduated with a PhD in 2018 from KAUST, with a focus on scalable algorithms and scientific software development. Prior to that, he was also a research affiliate with the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and an oil and gas project engineer at Houston, TX.