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). MLG targets machine learning, AI and behavioural intelligence research with applications in mobility, medicine, finance and biology. He also 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 at UC Berkeley. He is currently chair of the Benelux Association for Artificial Intelligence, the main representing entity for academic AI research in the region, and Belgian expert in the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence. He is working in a variety of interdisciplinary domains related to AI, Machine Learning and Complex Systems. In the context of computational Biology and Bioinformatics he’s currently contributing to understanding the oligogenic origins of rare diseases