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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 interests are in uncertainty quantification in machine learning, decision-making under uncertainty, and their applications in broader scientific fields such as chemistry. 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.

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  • 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.
  • I gave a talk at UBC's first-year seminar in science (SCIE 113). I talked about the high-level intuition of probabilistic decision-making algorithms and their impacts in making the world a better place.
  • Hello, world! I'm starting this news section!