Hello! My name is Maxim Van de Wynckel, a researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. I am a PhD candidate focusing on hybrid and indoor positioning, interoperability, linked data, and methods for discovering services. Read more about me here. For a list of all my academic publications, click here. I often write about my research or other projects in my blog.
Recent blog posts
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The privacy of location data is an open problem 3 min Imagine this: Your New Year’s resolution is to exercise more, so you start running. Suddenly, ads for running shoes pop up on your phone. Convenient? Sure. But it makes you wonder: Why are you seeing this? -
FOSDEM 2025: Discovering indoor environments and positioning systems 1 min Ever gotten lost in a building and wished for a navigation system but did not know where to find it? Discover how we can retrieve data from a building at FOSDEM 2025. -
Putting an Artificial brain in my Sumo Robot 18 min Discover how I integrated an artificial brain into my sumo robot, trained it using simulations, and overcame challenges to create a smarter, autonomous competitor.
Recent publications
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Towards Distributed Intelligent Tutoring Systems Based on User-owned Progress and Performance Data poster Malaise, Y., Van de Wynckel, M., & Signer, B. (2024, May). Towards Distributed Intelligent Tutoring Systems Based on User-owned Progress and Performance Data. Proceedings of SoSy 2024 (Poster), 2nd Solid Symposium, Leuven, Belgium, May 2024. https://events.vito.be/sosy2024 -
Discoverable and Interoperable Augmented Reality Environments Through Solid Pods poster Van de Wynckel, M., & Signer, B. (2024, May). Discoverable and Interoperable Augmented Reality Environments Through Solid Pods. Proceedings of SoSy 2024 (Poster), 2nd Solid Symposium, Leuven, Belgium, May 2024. https://events.vito.be/sosy2024 -
FidMark: A Fiducial Marker Ontology for Semantically Describing Visual Markers conference Van de Wynckel, M., Valadez, I., & Signer, B. (2024). FidMark: A Fiducial Marker Ontology for Semantically Describing Visual Markers. Proceedings of The Semantic Web (ESWC 2024), 235–250. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60635-9_14