Archit Rathod

Software Engineer & ML Fairness Researcher

MS Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago. Building tools where scale and responsibility share the same codebase.

architrathod77@gmail.comgithub.com/Archit1706linkedin.com/in/archit-rathodGoogle Scholararchitr.vercel.app

Experience

Research Assistant

Aug 2025 — Present
Urban Transportation Center · UIC
  • Architected Python pipelines processing 8.5M+ OD pairs across 300 GB of freight data.
  • Containerized routing engines via Docker across 2,926 zones.
  • Built Next.js / FastAPI freight toolkit tracking crash metrics across 285+ municipalities.
PythonDockerNext.jsFastAPIOSMnx

Open-Source Software Engineer · GSoC

May 2025 — Aug 2025
OpenStreetMap Foundation
  • Developed RESTful API (FastAPI + PostgreSQL/PostGIS) for real-time road closure management.
  • Built React map interfaces with OpenLR linear-reference encoding.
  • Automated CI/CD pipeline via GitHub Actions.
FastAPIPostgreSQL/PostGISReactLeafletOpenLR

Research Assistant

Feb 2025 — May 2025
University of Illinois Chicago
  • Built geospatial analysis pipelines (OSMnx) mapping Chicago's full road network.
  • Engineered graph-based cycle detection models to identify traffic congestion zones.
OSMnxNetworkXGeoPandasShapely

Research & Web Engineer

Mar 2023 — Jul 2024
SimPPL
  • Designed Next.js / FastAPI ethical-AI research platform.
  • Scraped 2,300+ Stormfront threads into BigQuery for hate-speech analysis.
  • Led data team analyzing 80M+ YouTube comments — cut analysis time by 30%.
  • Built Neo4j graph visualizers with 20K+ nodes.
Next.jsFastAPIBigQueryNeo4jPython

AI Engineer

Dec 2023 — Jun 2024
DIRL · Boston University
  • Led 14 engineers building a gamified virtual-marketplace in React.
  • Platform ran behavioral simulations with 2,000+ participants and autonomous LLM agents.
React.jsLLM AgentsBehavioral Simulation

Research & Publications

Responsible AI for Scientific Discovery: Evaluating Explainability Methods for Galaxy Morphology Classification across Multiple Architectures and Datasets

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Technical Report · 2026Gargi Sathe, Archit Rathod

Measuring and Mitigating Toxicity in Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Replication Study

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Technical Report · 2025Mokshit Surana, Archit Rathod, Akshaj Kurra Satishkumar
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Coordinated Amplification and Misinformation Detection in Global YouTube Conflict Narratives

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Course Project · 2025Archit Rathod, Srinath Ganesh, Vishaal Dayashanker, Harsh Shelke, Vignesh Pathak

Benchmarking Algorithms for Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation in Networks

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Technical Report · 2024Archit Rathod, Mokshit Surana, Gargi Sathe

Ascend.AI — Building Confidence Through Technology: A Technical Exploration of Facial Expression, Tone, and Pitch Analysis with Chatbot Guidance

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ICDSA 2024 · 2024Archit Rathod, Gargi Sathe, Siddh Shah, Kumkum Saxena

Multiagent Simulators for Social Networks

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NeurIPS 2023 · 2023Aditya Surve, Archit Rathod, Mokshit Surana, Gautam Malpani, Aneesh Shamraj, Sainath Reddy Sankepally, Raghav Jain, Swapneel S Mehta
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Leveraging CNNs and Ensemble Learning for Automated Disaster Image Classification

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ICSISCET 2023 · 2023Archit Rathod, Veer Pariawala, Mokshit Surana, Kumkum Saxena

Selected Projects

FairLint-DL

VS Code fairness debugger using PyTorch counterfactual search — cuts auditing time 40%.

PyTorchVS Code APITypeScript
Galaxy Morphology XAI

Comparative study of post-hoc explainability across 4 CNN architectures on Rubin LSST datasets.

CaptumGrad-CAMPyTorch
Keya AI

Agentic real-estate assistant covering 1,000+ ZIP codes with LangChain + Azure OpenAI.

LangChainAzure OpenAINext.js
OSM Road Closures

RESTful API + React map interface for real-time road closure management (GSoC 2025).

FastAPIPostGISOpenLR
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