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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Research featured in an interview 1 min Our research towards decentralised positioning systems and location data was featured through an interview in the Flemish magazine 'Knack'. -
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.
Recent publications
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Sphero Dead Reckoning and CV Tracking Dataset dataset Van de Wynckel, M., & Signer, B. (2025). Sphero Dead Reckoning and CV Tracking Dataset. Kaggle. https://doi.org/10.34740/KAGGLE/DS/6760212 -
Garage Positioning Dataset dataset Van de Wynckel, M. (2025). Garage Positioning Dataset. Kaggle. https://doi.org/10.34740/KAGGLE/DS/6654647 -
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