Maxim Van de Wynckel

I am a tech lead, researcher and project manager with a passion for interoperable (information) systems. My main expertise lies in linked open data, data spaces, sensor processing & RTLS. With my business skills and knowledge, I am capable of integrating innovation in existing business processes.

Key SkillsThe following is a summary of key skills, including digital, social and language skills.

ProjectsThe following projects are the main projects I have been part of.

• ChemStream Intranet

  Development of an intranet database for storing and searching chemicals and other data.

  2014 - now

• OpenHPS: An Open-Source Hybrid Positioning System

  OpenHPS is an open source hybrid positioning system to help developers fuse various positioning technologies and algorithms. The system offers a modular data processing framework with each modules ranging from computer vision to common algorithms such as fingerprinting or data persistence of sampled data. https://openhps.org

  2019 - now

• POSO: Positioning System Ontology

  The positioning system ontology is a vocabulary for describing positioning systems and the techniques these systems use to determine a position. With POSO we aim to provide semantic meaning on how a positioning system is deployed and how results are calculated. https://poso.openhps.org

  2022 - now

• SemBeacon

  SemBeacon is an ongoing project for the development of a semantic Bluetooth Low Energy beacon specification that helps to describe the beacon itself, its deployment and the positioning system used within. https://sembeacon.org

  2022 - now

• EhB Rooster

  EhBRooster.be was a project aimed at improving the usability of timetables for Erasmushogeschool Brussel, gaining significant interest from students and staff. Developed in Java and PHP, the website influenced the adoption of a new timetable system before its discontinuation in 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180812082356/https://ehbrooster.be/

  2015 - 2018

Publications & Media Coverage

• VUB researcher teaches systems that determine the location of people or objects within buildings to work together

  https://press.vub.ac.be/vub-researcher-teaches-systems-that-determine-the-location-of-people-or-objects-within-buildings-to-work-together

  July, 2025
• Van de Wynckel, M. (2025). Interoperable and Discoverable Indoor Positioning Systems [PhD thesis]. Vrije Universiteit Brussel – WISE lab.
• Van de Wynckel, M., & Signer, B. (2025). OpenHPS: A Modular Framework to Facilitate the Development of FAIR Positioning Systems. Journal of Open Source Software, 10(110), 8113. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08113

  https://solid.maximvdw.be/publications/2025/10.21105.joss.08113.pdf

• Van de Wynckel, M., & Signer, B. (2025). Survey on the Privacy and Transparency of Location Data. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15564050

  https://zenodo.org/records/15564052

• Jong Talent: Maxim Van de Wynckel (30) zoekt oplossingen om gebruikers meer controle te geven over hun locatiegegevens

  https://www.knack.be/nieuws/technologie/jong-talent-maxim-van-de-wynckel-30-zoekt-oplossingen-om-gebruikers-meer-controle-te-geven-over-hun-locatiegegevens/

  March, 2025
• Van de Wynckel, M., & Signer, B. (2025). Sphero Dead Reckoning and CV Tracking Dataset. Kaggle. https://doi.org/10.34740/KAGGLE/DS/6760212

  https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/maximvandewynckel/sphero-dead-reckoning-and-cv-tracking-dataset

• Van de Wynckel, M. (2025). Garage Positioning Dataset. Kaggle. https://doi.org/10.34740/KAGGLE/DS/6654647

  https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/maximvandewynckel/garage-positioning-dataset

• Malaise, Y., Van de Wynckel, M., & Signer, B. (2024). Towards Distributed Intelligent Tutoring Systems Based on User-owned Progress and Performance Data. Proceedings of the 2nd Solid Symposium (SoSy’24), 3947. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3947/short3.pdf

  https://solid.maximvdw.be/publications/towards-distributed-intelligent-tutoring-systems-based-on-user-owned-progress-and-performance-data.pdf

• Van de Wynckel, M., & Signer, B. (2024). Discoverable and Interoperable Augmented Reality Environments Through Solid Pods. Proceedings of SoSy 2024 (Poster), 2nd Solid Symposium, Leuven, Belgium, May 2024, 3947. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3947/short2.pdf

  https://solid.maximvdw.be/publications/discoverable-and-interoperable-augmented-reality-environments-through-solid-pods.pdf

• 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

  https://solid.maximvdw.be/publications/fidmark-a-fiducial-marker-ontology-for-semantically-describing-visual-markers.pdf

• Van de Wynckel, M., & Signer, B. (2023). SemBeacon: A Semantic Proximity Beacon Solution for Discovering and Detecting the Position of Physical Things. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Internet of Things, 9–16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3627050.3627060

  https://solid.maximvdw.be/publications/sembeacon-a-semantic-proximity-beacon-solution-for-discovering-and-detecting-the-position-of-physical-things.pdf

• Vermunicht, B., Van de Wynckel, M., & Signer, B. (2023). 802.11 Managemement frames from a public location. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8003771

  https://zenodo.org/records/8003772

• Hoebeke, N., Van de Wynckel, M., & Signer, B. (2023). Object Tracking on a Monopoly Game Board. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7990434

  https://zenodo.org/records/7990434

• Van de Wynckel, M., & Signer, B. (2022). POSO: A Generic Positioning System Ontology. The Semantic Web – ISWC 2022, 231–247. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19433-7_14

  https://solid.maximvdw.be/publications/poso-a-generic-positioning-system-ontology.pdf

• Van de Wynckel, M., & Signer, B. (2022). A Solid-based Architecture for Decentralised Interoperable Location Data. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN’22), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3248. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3248/paper11.pdf

  https://solid.maximvdw.be/publications/a-solid-based-architecture-for-decentralised-interoperable-location-data.pdf

• Van de Wynckel, M., & Signer, B. (2021). Indoor Positioning Using the OpenHPS Framework. 2021 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1109/IPIN51156.2021.9662569

  https://solid.maximvdw.be/publications/indoor-positioning-using-the-openhps-framework.pdf

• Van de Wynckel, M., & Signer, B. (2021). OpenHPS: Single Floor Fingerprinting and Trajectory Dataset. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4744380

  https://zenodo.org/records/4744380

• Van de Wynckel, M., & Signer, B. (2020). OpenHPS: An Open Source Hybrid Positioning System (WISE-2020-01). Vrije Universiteit Brussel. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2101.05198

  https://solid.maximvdw.be/publications/openhps-an-open-source-hybrid-positioning-system.pdf

• Van de Wynckel, M. (2019). Indoor Navigation by Centralized Tracking [Master’s thesis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel]. https://researchportal.vub.be/en/studentTheses/indoor-navigation-by-centralized-tracking

  https://solid.maximvdw.be/publications/2019/Masterthesis_MaximVandeWynckel.pdf