About
Agustinus Kristiadi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Western University, and a Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute. Previously, he was a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vector Institute and obtained his PhD from the University of Tuebingen in Germany. His research interest is in solving scientific problems through uncertainty-aware machine learning algorithms and autonomous decision-making under uncertainty. His work has been recognized in the form of a best PhD thesis award and multiple spotlight papers from flagship machine learning conferences. His services to the scientific society include mentoring underrepresented students and actively contributing to the open-source community.
Interests
Openings
- I have NO openings for Postdoc, PhD, or MSc Thesis at this moment.
- For current Western CS MSc Course-Based students: I will have 1 opening for Directed Study in Fall 2026. A necessary but not sufficient requirement is doing well in CS 9840.
- For current Western undergrad students: I will have 1 opening for BSc Honours Thesis (CS 4490Z) for Fall 2026. Doing great in DS 3000 and CS 4451 is a necessary prerequisite. Math and Stats students are welcome (make sure you can have a supervisor from CS). You must also be good at programming.
News
- I am organizing AISTATS 2026 as a Sponsorship Chair. I am also organizing AABI 2026 as a Program Chair.
- I'll be teaching CS 9840: Probabilistic Generative AI in winter term 2026.
- Nouran Sakr has joined the group as a MSc thesis student, co-supervised by Yalda Mohsenzadeh. Welcome!
- Our work about an uncertainty-aware foundation model for molecular dynamics simulation has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025 as a spotlight (top 4% of all submissions).
- Paul Moore is joining the group as a MSc thesis student. Molick Hou and Jacob Colton are joining as undergraduate thesis students. Welcome!
- In addition to my position at Western, I am now affiliated with Vector Institute as a Faculty Affiliate.
- Another work in analyzing reward-guided text generation methods in LLMs has been accepted to COLM 2025. Check it out in Montreal later this year!
- Our work on making reward-guided text generation in LLMs more efficient has been accepted to ICML 2025. Check out our poster in Vancouver this month!
- I am now an Assistant Professor in the CS dept at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada!
- I will be in Singapore between 28 and 30 April, inclusive. Feel free to reach out! I am also organizing the AABI 2025 symposium on the 29th.