Hello! My name is Maxim Van de Wynckel, a tech lead, researcher and consultant. My research focuses 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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Invitation to my public PhD defence 1 min My public PhD defence on 'Interoperable and Discoverable Indoor Positioning Systems' will take place on the 30th of June at 15:00 -
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?
Recent publications
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OWL-SDA: A Multi-Agent System for Generating Synthetic Data to Support Ontology Evaluation poster Van de Wynckel, M., & De Roock, E. (2026). OWL-SDA: A Multi-Agent System for Generating Synthetic Data to Support Ontology Evaluation. Posters, Demos, Blue Sky, and Tutorials at SEMANTiCS 2026. -
ODDToolkit: An Open-Source Toolkit to Help Bridge the Developer Gap in Ontology Driven Design poster Van de Wynckel, M., & Van Haute, G. (2026). ODDToolkit: An Open-Source Toolkit to Help Bridge the Developer Gap in Ontology Driven Design. Posters, Demos, Blue Sky, and Tutorials at SEMANTiCS 2026. -
Chemical Identity Lost in Regulation: A Study of Semantic Interoperability in European Chemical Substance Data poster Van Haute, G., Goedertier, S., Fannes, P., & Van de Wynckel, M. (2026). Chemical Identity Lost in Regulation: A Study of Semantic Interoperability in European Chemical Substance Data. Posters, Demos, Blue Sky, and Tutorials at SEMANTiCS 2026.