- 🔬 PhD Researcher at ÉTS Montréal and Mila - Quebec AI Institute
- 💼 Freelance Machine Learning Engineer at Toptal
Hi! I’m Meghana Bhange — a researcher and engineer working at the intersection of machine learning, privacy, and social impact.
My current research investigates Algorithmic Collective Action as a lens for designing socio-technical systems that empower communities — not just individuals — to resist harm and reclaim agency. 🌍🤖 I pursue this direction as a PhD researcher at the Trustworthy Information Systems Lab (TISL) and Mila – Quebec AI Institute, under the supervision of Prof. Ulrich Aïvodji.
You can follow my updates about the project at aca.meghanabhange.com and my personal website/blog meghanabhange.com
I completed my Master’s in Information Technology Engineering at ÉTS Montréal in 2025. My thesis focused on building privacy-preserving infrastructure for collective complaint systems, co-supervised by Prof. Ulrich Aïvodji and Prof. Jean-Marc Robert.
Previously, I have worked as a Machine Learning Engineer and also currently do freelance consultancy at Toptal in my free time, where I’ve contributed to AI and NLP-driven projects like building inclusive hiring pipelines (using SpaCy, GPT-3, FastAPI) and an automated trading platform integrating technical indicator based strategies that can trade live with platforms such as Interactive Brokers. I enjoy collaborating with clients from different domains as it helps me sharpen my practical problem-solving.
- (Pre-print) Survey on AI Ethics: A Socio-technical Perspective
- HinglishNLP: Language Models for Hinglish Sentiment Detection
So far, I've made a few minor open source contributions — but one of my goals for 2025 is to get more involved and contribute more meaningfully to projects I admire.
- Django #13458 – Improved error messages in
formsetsfor ticket #32042. - Wagtail Release 2.11 – Contributed to document validation and
StreamFieldcustomization. - FashionMNIST – Added one of the 3-layer CNN benchmark to the official leaderboard.