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 NO openings for Directed Study in Fall 2026. A necessary but not sufficient requirement for doing DS with me is doing well in CS 9840.
- For current Western undergrad students: I will have NO opening for BSc Honours Thesis (CS 4490Z) for Fall 2026. Requirements for doing this with me are doing great in DS 3000 and taking CS 4451 very seriously.
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.