Tom Lenaerts

Tom Lenaerts is a Professor at Université libre de Bruxelles (since 2018) and Director of the Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels (since 2017). He holds additional roles such as Visiting Scholar at the Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI) and Board member of AI4Belgium. His expertise spans Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Evolutionary Game Theory, and Bioinformatics.

Research Interests: Lenaerts focuses on cooperative intelligence, collective decision-making, and the intersection of AI with biological systems. His work includes theoretical models for multi-agent systems and applications in computational biology.

Awards: He has received multiple recognitions, including the Best poster award (2010), Best regular paper award (2020), and BNVKI Best Thesis Abstract Award (2018).

Labs/Teams: Active in the Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics and the Federated labs AI and Robotics at ULB.