Curriculum vitae
Archit Rathod
Software Engineer & ML Fairness Researcher
Chicago, IL · 41.8781°N, 87.6298°W
MS Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago. Building tools where scale and responsibility share the same codebase. I build systems that are measurably correct and demonstrably fair — bridging scalable data engineering with transparent, responsible AI. Open to full-time software engineering and applied ML / research roles.
- MS Computer Science · UIC
- GSoC 2025 · OpenStreetMap
- NeurIPS 2023 · Springer ×2
- 9 publications & reports
- 39 shipped projects
Experience
Jun 2026 — Present
Chicago, IL
Machine Learning (Research) Engineer
RISC Lab · UIC
- Building TaxMR: 130 CPA-labeled VITA tax questions expanded to 2,080 metamorphic cases across four relations (demographic name swaps, irrelevant context, paraphrase, sycophantic pushback).
- Comparing robustness across base, RAG (IRS Pub 4491), and neurosymbolic (PAL) regimes on ~7 models; conditional violation rate with cluster-bootstrap CIs and exact McNemar tests.
- Advised by Prof. Saeid Tizpaz-Niari; Phase 1 pipeline validated end-to-end on Qwen 2.5 7B.
Aug 2025 — Present
Chicago, IL
Graduate Research Assistant
The Urban Transportation Center · UIC
- Engineered a Next.js + FastAPI freight toolkit visualizing crash metrics and traffic volumes across 285+ municipalities, deployed on UIC RHEL9 with Docker and Nginx.
- Architected Python pipelines processing 8.5M+ origin–destination pairs (300GB+) with chunked, atomic operations; containerized OpenTripPlanner to route across 2,926 zones.
- Built an OpenStreetMap Overpass extraction pipeline classifying 10,000+ US railyard polygons into intermodal, classification, and spur categories.
May 2025 — Aug 2025
Chicago, IL · Remote
Open Source Software Engineer
Google Summer of Code · OpenStreetMap
- Built a temporary road closures database and RESTful API with PostgreSQL/PostGIS and FastAPI for real-time closure reporting in OSM navigation apps.
- Implemented OpenLR location referencing for cross-platform encoding across OSM-based navigation systems.
- Shipped a Next.js + Leaflet web app for community closure submissions; deployed on a dedicated OSM server with Docker, Nginx, auto-renewing SSL, and GitHub Actions CI/CD.
Feb 2025 — May 2025
Chicago, IL
Research Assistant
University of Illinois Chicago
- Constructed a road network graph of Chicago with OSMnx and NetworkX, filtering to primary/secondary roads for computational efficiency.
- Engineered bounded cycle-detection algorithms to identify congestion zones and optimal camera placements within 3–5 miles of the city centroid.
Dec 2023 — Jul 2024
New York, NY · Remote
Software Engineer
SimPPL
- Led a team of 5 building a project discovery platform for fellows and team leads across the organization.
- Co-authored a report with Prof. Deb Donig and the ADL on the impact of LLMs on hate-speech propagation in online forums.
- Built a coordination network graph visualizer used across YouTube, Truth Social, and BlueSky data.
Dec 2023 — May 2024
Boston, MA · Remote
Software & AI Engineer
Boston University
- Led a virtual marketplace experiment on Empirica.ly and React.js where producers choose between honest and deceptive ads while consumers select products.
- Worked with Prof. Marshall W. Van Alstyne and Dr. Swapneel Mehta in the Digital Information Research Lab.
Mar 2023 — Nov 2023
Remote
Software Engineer
SimPPL
- Analyzed YouTube videos, comments, and channels; visualized video–user–comment relationships as network graphs.
- Shipped product pages for the company site, deployed on Vercel and Netlify with backend API testing and documentation.
Jun 2021 — Jul 2021
Mumbai, IN
Machine Learning Intern
Kaizen Future Tech
- Built CNN and ResNet image classifiers for natural disaster detection reaching 95% accuracy.
- Developed a stacked ensemble with XGBoost as meta-classifier to improve generalization.
Selected projects
All 39 projects ↗FairLint DL
2026AI/ML · Open Source
Deep-learning fairness debugger shipped as a VS Code extension
- PyTorch
- VS Code API
- TypeScript
- Causal DAGs
- Gradient Ascent
OSM Temporary Road Closures
2025Full Stack · OSS
Database & API for the OpenStreetMap Foundation · GSoC 2025
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Leaflet
- Tailwind
- FastAPI
Freight Toolkit
2025Full Stack · Urban Analytics
CMAP regional freight dashboard · UIC-UTC × FTA FERSC
- Next.js 16
- React 19
- MapLibre GL
- Tailwind 4
- FastAPI
relfair
2026AI/ML · Open Source
Relationship-aware counterfactual fairness testing · PyPI
- Python
- scikit-learn
- NumPy
- Pandas
- HistGBM
FairGuard
2026AI Agents · Responsible AI
Agentic investigative journalism — mapping federal revolving doors
- Claude Code
- Agent Skills
- Anthropic Claude
- Python
- Pandas
TransitLake
2026Data Engineering · Geospatial
Dagster-orchestrated medallion lakehouse over Chicago transit
- Dagster
- dbt
- DuckDB
- Parquet
- Python
Publications & reports — 4 peer-reviewed
All research ↗2026
ASE 2026
FairLint-DL: An IDE-Native Tool for Fairness Debugging of Deep Learning Software
Archit Rathod · Saeid Tizpaz-Niari
2026
arXiv
Auditing Discriminatory Patterns in Mortgage Lending Through Association Rules and Fair Binning
Archit Rathod · Dhwani Chande · Het Nagda
arXiv ↗ · arxiv.org/abs/2606.124352026
Technical Report
Responsible AI for Scientific Discovery: Evaluating Explainability Methods for Galaxy Morphology Classification across Multiple Architectures and Datasets
Gargi Sathe · Archit Rathod
2025
Technical Report
Measuring and Mitigating Toxicity in Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Replication Study
Mokshit Surana · Archit Rathod · Akshaj Kurra Satishkumar
arXiv ↗ · arxiv.org/abs/2605.140872025
Course Project
Coordinated Amplification and Misinformation Detection in Global YouTube Conflict Narratives
Archit Rathod · Srinath Ganesh · Vishaal Dayashanker · Harsh Shelke · Vignesh Pathak
2024
Technical Report
Benchmarking Algorithms for Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation in Networks
Archit Rathod · Mokshit Surana · Gargi Sathe
2024
ICDSA 2024
Ascend.AI — Building Confidence Through Technology: A Technical Exploration of Facial Expression, Tone, and Pitch Analysis with Chatbot Guidance
Archit Rathod · Gargi Sathe · Siddh Shah · Kumkum Saxena
2023
NeurIPS 2023
Multiagent Simulators for Social Networks
Aditya Surve · Archit Rathod · Mokshit Surana · Gautam Malpani · Aneesh Shamraj · Sainath Reddy Sankepally · Raghav Jain · Swapneel S Mehta
arXiv ↗ · arxiv.org/abs/2311.147122023
ICSISCET 2023
Leveraging CNNs and Ensemble Learning for Automated Disaster Image Classification
Archit Rathod · Veer Pariawala · Mokshit Surana · Kumkum Saxena
Education
Aug 2024 — May 2026
University of Illinois Chicago
MS, Computer Science
GPA 3.7 / 4.0
- NLP
- Data Science
- Algorithmic Fairness
- Responsible AI
2021 — 2024
University of Mumbai · TSEC
BE, Information Technology
GPA 9.32 / 10
- DSA
- Machine Learning
- Computer Networks
- Data Mining
- Image Processing
Skills
Languages
Python · TypeScript · JavaScript · SQL · C/C++ · GLSL
ML & Data
PyTorch · scikit-learn · PySpark · Pandas · NumPy · LangChain / LangGraph · Captum · OpenCV · Transformers
Web & APIs
Next.js · React · FastAPI · Node.js · Tailwind CSS · GSAP · Three.js · Leaflet / MapLibre
Geospatial
PostGIS · OSMnx · NetworkX · GeoPandas · Shapely · Valhalla · OpenLR · ArcGIS Pro
Infra
PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Neo4j · Redis · Docker · Nginx · GitHub Actions · Linux
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