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 in Germany and multiple spotlight papers from flagship machine learning conferences.
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Are you a prospective/current Western CS/Math/Stats undergrad student who wants to become an AI researcher? Interested in not just using ChatGPT but actually building and understanding its mechanisms? Then consider the Honours Specialization in Data Science module!
CA 1000, CA 1501 (more calc is better!), MA 1600 (more linear algebra is better, too!), CS 1026, CS 1027, SS 2857 (important!), DS 3000, CS 4451, CS 4452, CS 4453.
Openings
Please see this page for information.
News
- I will be teaching DS 3000A/9000A: Intro to Machine Learning this fall, and CS 4453B/9670B: Reinforcement Learning and CS 9840B: Probabilistic Generative AI this winter.
- I gave an invited talk at ISBA World Meeting 2026 in Nagoya about amortizing Hamiltonian ODEs in molecular dynamics.
- I am organizing AISTATS 2026 as a Sponsorship Chair. I am also organizing ProbML 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!