AI Researcher · Educator · Author

Dr. Srikanth Baride

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of South Dakota

I build evaluation frameworks that make AI systems more transparent and accountable — spanning carbon-aware ML benchmarks, LLM billing analysis, retrieval-augmented reasoning agents, and multimodal video/precursor understanding. Ph.D. in Computer Science from IIIT-Delhi (2024).

Vermillion, SD Ph.D. IIIT-Delhi ’24 CRC Press Book (In Preparation) IEEE CAI 2026 Visvesvaraya Fellow
Dr. Srikanth Baride
5+
Peer-Reviewed Publications
10+
Courses Taught
3
Active Research Projects
1
CRC Press Book

Research Projects

My Active Work

AI Evaluation arXiv:2602.16042 Patent Pending

AI-CARE

Carbon-Aware Reporting Evaluation for ML Models

A reporting-centric evaluation framework I developed that elevates energy and carbon emissions to first-class evaluation quantities. Enables transparent, reproducible comparison of ML models under fixed experimental conditions — without modifying architectures.

Key Contributions

  • Carbon–Accuracy Tradeoff Curves (CATC) for visual benchmarking
  • Scalar Carbon-Aware Score (SCAS) for single-metric model ranking
  • Benchmarks MLP, CNN, Transformer, MLP-Mixer, MobileNetV2, ResNet-18
  • Reproducible CSV outputs + publication-quality figures
PythonPyTorchCodeCarbonMatplotlibApache 2.0
6
Architectures
5
Datasets
SCAS
Novel Metric
CATC
Tradeoff Curves

Experimental Setup

  • Adam · LR 1e-3 · Batch 64 · 10 epochs
  • Grid carbon intensity: 400 gCO₂/kWh (fixed)
  • CPU-only · Deterministic · Reproducible
  • MNIST → Fashion-MNIST → CIFAR-10 → CIFAR-100 → ImageNet-100
LLM ResearcharXiv:2602.16042

AI-CARE LLM

Token vs Energy Billing Mismatch

Extends my AI-CARE framework with a pipeline studying the mismatch between token-based LLM pricing and real energy footprint. Uses real NRP-hosted models with a fixed 30-prompt suite for controlled comparison.

Highlights

  • Token–energy correlation, variance & rank-shift analysis
  • 4 NRP models: Qwen3-small, GPT-OSS, Qwen3, MiniMax-M2
  • TikZ/PGFPlots figures for manuscript-ready output
PythonNRP NautilusOpenAI APITikZ
LLM AgentsNeurIPS Extension

Retrieval-Augmented Reflexion

RAR — Verbal RL with Episodic Memory

My extension of the Reflexion framework using Maximum Marginal Relevance (MMR) to retrieve semantically similar past trajectories from an episodic store as contrastive context for richer, failure-aware agent reflections.

Evaluated Strategies

  • Baselines: Simple, ReAct, CoT+GT, Reflexion, ExpeL
  • RAR (mine): semantic sim + error-class + MMR diversification
  • HotPotQA (100×5), ALFWorld (134×10), HumanEval Hard (50)
PythonKubernetesFAISS/MMRNRP Nautilus
Vision-LanguageVideo Action Recognition

FlowCLIP

Optical-Flow Encodings for CLIP Video Action Recognition

Investigates how different optical-flow encodings augment CLIP for video action recognition, comparing flow-based motion representations against RGB-only baselines to study what temporal motion cues add to vision-language transfer.

PythonPyTorchCLIPVideo
Multimodal AIEarly Detection

Multimodal Precursor Detection

Fusing Heterogeneous Signals for Early Event Detection

A multimodal deep-learning pipeline that fuses heterogeneous signals (e.g., audio, text, and sensor streams) to detect precursor events early, enabling timely alerts and downstream decision support.

Highlights

  • Multimodal fusion across audio, text, and sensor streams
  • Early-warning detection enabling timely alerts & decision support
  • Deep-learning pipeline with modular signal encoders
PythonPyTorchMultimodal Fusion

arXiv Preprint · cs.LG · Accepted IEEE CAI 2026

AI-CARE: Carbon-Aware Reporting Evaluation Metric for AI Models

KC Santosh · Srikanth Baride · Rodrigue Rizk — 2026 · arXiv:2602.16042

About Me

Background & Interests

Biography

Who I Am

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of South Dakota (2025–present), and former Visiting Assistant Professor at USD (2024–2025). I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from IIIT-Delhi in 2024 (CGPA 8.11), M.Tech. from NIT Hamirpur, and B.Tech. from JNTU Hyderabad.

Before academia, I worked as a Digital Innovation Engineer at Buckman (2023–2024) and a System Engineer at Infosys (2013–2014). I co-authored Reinforcement Learning Explained (CRC Press | Taylor & Francis, 2025, ISBN: 9781041252993) and hold an Invention Disclosure for AI-CARE with USD's Technology Transfer Office.

Research Interests

What I Work On

  • Applied Machine Learning & AI — carbon-aware & sustainable evaluation
  • Reinforcement Learning — verbal RL, language agents, world models
  • LLM evaluation — billing transparency & energy-cost modeling
  • Graph-Based Learning & large-scale data mining
  • Scalable & distributed AI systems (HPC, cloud)
  • Trustworthy & responsible AI
  • Vision-Language Models & Video Action Recognition
  • Multimodal Learning & Early-Event Detection

Technical Stack

PythonPyTorchTensorFlowJAXscikit-learnC/C++JavaHPCAWS/GCPKubernetes

Awards & Fellowships

Recognition

  • Visvesvaraya Ph.D. Fellowship (2016–2020), Government of India
  • MHRD Scholarship, Government of India (2010–2012) for M.Tech.
  • Best Project Award, National Children's Science Congress (2003)
  • Founder & Leader, Student Wellness & Meditation Club, IIIT-Delhi (2016–2020)
  • Art of Living Foundation (2012–Present): organized 100+ wellness and meditation programs

Professional Service

Community Roles

  • Reviewer, IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI 2026)
  • PC Member, 4th Int’l Conference on AI & Smart Data Science (AISDS 2025)
  • Reviewer, GeoInformatica (Springer), 2025
  • TPC Member, 7th AI Symposium (June 2025)

Teaching

Courses I’ve Taught

University of South Dakota

Instructor of Record

  • CSC 752
    Computer Vision
    Graduate · Spring 2026
  • CSC 792
    Topics in Advanced Data Mining
    Graduate · Summer 2025
    Cutting-edge pattern discovery in large, complex datasets. Advanced algorithms for pattern mining, high-dimensional analysis, and scalable data pipelines.
  • CSC 547
    Artificial Intelligence
    Graduate · Spring 2025
    Foundational AI concepts: knowledge representation, search algorithms, logical inference, and AI programming. Covers planning, reasoning, and applications.
  • CSC 724
    Applied Reinforcement Learning
    Graduate · Spring 2025 · 3 sections (U15, U17, U19)
    Leverages RL algorithms for sequential decision-making problems. Covers policy gradients, Q-learning, and real-world applications using open frameworks.

Co-Instructor

  • CSC 785
    Information Storage & Retrieval
    Graduate · Fall 2025
  • CSC 787
    AI in Medical Imaging Informatics
    Graduate · Summer 2025
IIIT-Delhi

Teaching Assistant (2016–2020)

  • CSE 530
    Distributed Systems
    Graduate · Winter 2016
  • CSE 510A
    Big Data Analytics
    Graduate · Winter 2017
  • CSE 600A
    Object Oriented Programming & Design
    Graduate · Monsoon 2020
  • CSE 231
    Operating Systems
    Undergraduate · Winter 2020
  • CSE 101
    Introduction to Programming
    Undergraduate · Monsoon 2016, 2017
  • ENG 599s
    Research Methods
    Graduate · Winter 2019

Publications

My Work in Print

Book
Reinforcement Learning Explained
Baride, S., Rizk, R., & Santosh, KC (Accepted )
CRC Press | Taylor & Francis · ISBN: 9781041252993
arXiv
AI-CARE: Carbon-Aware Reporting Evaluation Metric for AI Models
Santosh, KC, Baride, S., & Rizk, R. (2026)
arXiv:2602.16042 · Accepted at IEEE CAI 2026
arxiv.org/abs/2602.16042 → Google Scholar →
Journal
Efficiently Mining Colocation Patterns for Range Query
Baride, S., Saxena, A.S., & Goyal, V. (2023)
Big Data Research, 31, 100369
DOI: 10.1016/j.bdr.2023.100369 → Google Scholar →
IEEE
Distributed Algorithm for High-Utility Subgraph Pattern Mining Over Big Data Platforms
Khare, A., Goyal, V., Baride, S., et al. (2017)
IEEE HiPC 2017, pp. 263–272
DOI: 10.1109/HiPC.2017.00038 → Google Scholar →
IEEE
A Density-Based Algorithm for Detecting Anomalous Trajectories
Barnwal, R.P., Baride, S., Majumder, S., & Ghosh, S.K. (2016)
MicroCom 2016
DOI: 10.1109/MicroCom.2016.7522433 → Google Scholar →
ACM
A Cloud-Based Software Testing Paradigm for Mobile Applications
Baride, S., & Dutta, K. (2011)
ACM SIGSOFT, 36(3):1–4
DOI: 10.1145/1968587.1968601 → Google Scholar →