Tom Lenaerts

• Previous visit: 2025-02-07 to 2025-03-07

Tom Lenaerts is full professor in the Computer Science department at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where he is co-heading the Machine Learning Group, focussing on AI, Game Theoretical modelling and Computational Biology. He holds a partial affiliation as research professor with the Artificial Intelligence Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and is affiliated researcher at the Center for Human-Compatible AI of UC Berkeley. He was board member, vice-chair and finally chair of the Benelux Association for Artificial Intelligence between 2016 and 2024 and Director of the Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels between 2017 and 2021. He currently is the Academic Director of FARI, the Brussels AI for Common Good institute and national contact point for the CAIRNE hub in Brussels. He has been publishing in a variety of interdisciplinary domains on AI and Machine Learning, involving topics related to optimization, multi-agent systems, collective intelligence, evolutionary game theory, computational biology and bioinformatics.