Tom Lenaerts

Tom Lenaerts (PhD 2003) is Professor in the Computer Science department at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where he is co-heading the Machine Learning Group (MLG). He holds also 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. He currently is one of the academic directors of FARI, the Brussels AI for Common Good institute, AI expert in the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence 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, AI governance, computational biology and bioinformatics.

Link to ORCID profile:  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3645-1455