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Surbhi Rathore

Cranston,RI

Summary

3+ years of ML Research Experience. I am a Data Science/ Machine Learning practitioner who tackles real world problems with the help of analytics and ML libraries. I design algorithms and frameworks to provides actionable insights from the data.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Graduate Research Assistant

URI | Kingston, RI
Kingston, RI
08.2021 - Current
  • Conducted IBM-supported research.
  • Created a prevention-focused task fairness framework using principles from information theory, enabling early integration into the model development phase for bias evaluation.
  • Published the work at EAI-KDD22.
  • Enhanced task fairness framework by designing a model-agnostic fair feature selection technique.
  • Mitigated biases by reducing differences observed in performance and group fairness metrics by close to 20%
  • Published work as part of master's thesis.
  • Analyzed user study findings to assess framework's applicability as a real-world practice.
  • Results indicated that users were interested in using the framework to analyze biases and applying bias mitigation techniques prior to the model fitting phase.

Data science Researcher

Laboratory for Analytic Sciences | NC State
06.2024 - 07.2024
  • Collaborated with Intelligence analysts on analyzing memory retention between full texts and their extractive summaries using similarity analysis.
  • Conducted a human-based evaluation to identify gaps in recommender systems and gather actionable insights for tailored recommenders platform implementation for IC.
  • Demonstrated how integrating MIND data with SUBER, a simulated user behavior recommender system utilizing large language models through reinforcement learning, enhanced performance of news recommendation systems.
  • Used Optuna to optimize SUBER performance and achieved promising results in hyperparameter tuning.

Graduate Assistant

URI | Kingston, RI
09.2023 - 05.2024
  • Assisted in CSC310 Data Science course by facilitating lab sessions, providing office hour assistance to undergraduate students and by designing a course on fair ML.

Data science Researcher

Laboratory for Analytic Sciences | NC State
06.2023 - 07.2023
  • Utilized BertViz to visualize and interpret the working of news encoder of the Neural News Recommendation with Multi-Head SelfAttention model(NRMS), facilitating model explainability for Intelligence analysts.
  • Authored paper for SCADS 2023, highlighting contributions to NRMS model
  • Conducted Human-Computer Interaction feasibility study with Intelligence analysts, leveraging neurocognitive data to evaluate scientific content summarization
  • The findings were presented at the NARST 2024 conference.

Graduate Assistant

URI | Kingston, RI
07.2021 - 08.2021
  • Developed MySQL database schema for a student portal, enabling academic performance tracking
  • Implemented front-end components.

Graduate Assistant

URI | Kingston, RI
02.2021 - 06.2021
  • Utilized SAS and SQL queries to analyze healthcare data, facilitating physician monitoring of patient loads across disease categories
  • Generated comprehensive reports, summarizing hospitalized and non-hospitalized patients with diverse health conditions over a specified timeframe.

Education

Ph.D. - Computer and Statistical Science

University of RI
Kingston, RI
12-2025

M.S. - Computer Science

University of RI
Kingston, RI
12.2022

Skills

  • Python
  • R
  • SQL
  • C
  • C
  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • PyTorch
  • Tensorflow
  • Keras
  • Predictive modeling
  • Statistical Techniques
  • Recommender System
  • Time Series Analysis
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Big Data pipeline
  • DynamoDB
  • Scikit-learn
  • Research and analysis
  • Qualitative Research
  • Matplotlib
  • PySpark
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • RStudio
  • Jupyter Notebook
  • Git
  • Google Analytics
  • Tableau

Certification

Getting Started with Deep Learning NVIDIA, March 2021

Research & Publications

  • Information Theoretic Framework for Evaluation of Task Level Fairness- EAI-KDD22 - https://charliezhaoyinpeng.github.io/EAI-KDD22/camera_ready/information.pdf
  • Use of neurocognitive data to evaluate text summarization of science content - presented at NARST 2024
  • Model-agnostic feature selection for fairness - 2022 - https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3264&context=theses
  • Integrating Neuroscience Principles into the Development of a Tailored Daily Report: A Universal Design Approach (Article in International Journal of Psychology and Neuroscience · August 2023 - https://neuropsyjournal.wordpress.com/articles/psycho-tailored-daily-reports/)

Projects

  • Time Series Analysis; R, Python, statsmodels, forecast, TSA, Executed a demand forecasting project by implementing a Linear Regression model to evaluate the interdependencies among variables. Applied ARIMA and SARIMA models to perform comparative analysis, accounting for the seasonality and upward trend in product demand.
  • Big Data Analysis; R, Python, Matplotlib, ggplot, Developed predictive models, including the Susceptible-Infectious-Recovered (SIR) model and both simple and multiple linear regression models, to quantitatively analyze the impact of COVID-19.
  • Neural Networks & Deep Learning; Python, ML, NumPy, PyTorch, Keras, pandas, Matplotlib, Image classification using CNN, MLP and Multiclass Logistic Regression to compare accuracies and losses.
  • Big Data Algorithms; Apache Spark- PySpark, DynamoDB, Kafka, Implemented Lambda Architecture (Big Data pipeline) to process real time and batch data. Implemented customer segmentation using K means clustering.

Timeline

Data science Researcher

Laboratory for Analytic Sciences | NC State
06.2024 - 07.2024

Graduate Assistant

URI | Kingston, RI
09.2023 - 05.2024

Data science Researcher

Laboratory for Analytic Sciences | NC State
06.2023 - 07.2023

Graduate Research Assistant

URI | Kingston, RI
08.2021 - Current

Graduate Assistant

URI | Kingston, RI
07.2021 - 08.2021

Graduate Assistant

URI | Kingston, RI
02.2021 - 06.2021

Ph.D. - Computer and Statistical Science

University of RI

M.S. - Computer Science

University of RI
Surbhi Rathore