Jeroen Audenaert

Dr. Audenaert is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT in Boston (USA). He previously co-founded the company Yellowleaf, a digital agency, and co-led the company for nearly eight years, after which it was successfully acquired by an industry partner. He is passionate about using technology to advance science, industry and society, and in particular how artificial intelligence and machine learning can improve the understanding of the universe and the world around us. He especially likes bridging fields and integrating techniques from different domains, as he believes this is the key in developing innovative solutions to big problems.

Dr. Audenaert obtained his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence for Astronomy & Astrophysics from KU Leuven (Belgium) in 2023, of which he spent one year at MIT. Academic research focuses on the development of a machine learning framework to process the millions of stars that are being observed by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) space mission. More specifically, we first try to classify the observed stars according to their physical characteristics and then aim to determine their astrophysical parameters in detail, such that we can ultimately unravel their complete physical structure and understand the evolution of stars.