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 service to the scientific society includes mentoring underrepresented students and actively contributing to the open-source community.
Research Interests
- Probabilistic Machine Learning
- Uncertainty Quantification
- Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
- AI4Science
Highlights
- Best PhD thesis from the German Research Foundation’s Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning (FoDL) program
- Spotlight paper at NeurIPS 2023 (top 4%)
- Spotlight paper at NeurIPS 2021 (top 3%)
- Long-talk paper at UAI 2021 (top 6%)
- Best reviewer at ICML 2021 (top 10%)