Maxim Van de Wynckel

Education

• Doctor of Sciences (PhD), Computer Science

  Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Elsene, Belgium)

  Thesis: Interoperable and Discoverable Indoor Positioning Systems

  2019 - 2025

• Master of Science (MSc), Applied Computer Science

  Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Elsene, Belgium)

  Graduated magna cum laude

  Thesis: Indoor Navigation by Centralized Tracking

  July, 2019

• Bridging Programme, Computer Science

  Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Elsene, Belgium)
  2016 - 2018

• Bachelor (Ba), Applied Computer Science

  Erasmushogeschool Brussel (Anderlecht, Belgium)

  Graduated magna cum laude

  Thesis: eID IO - Applicatie Besturing

  June, 2016

Employment

• Vlaanderen connect.

  Technical Team Lead
  2025 - now

• MVdW-Software

  Software engineering consultant
  2019 - now

• V.U.B. Diving Center vzw

  Board Member & Secretary
  2025 - now

• Vrije Universiteit Brussel

  • Oct, 2025 - nowExternal Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Oct, 2019 - Sep, 2025Academic and Teaching Staff
  2019 - now

• ChemStream BV.

  Software engineer (student job)
  2014 - 2018

• UZ Brussel

  Software developer internship (student job)
  2016

• BITPOWER BV.

  • Oct, 2015 - Dec, 2015Software developer internship (student job)
  • Aug, 2015 - Sep, 2015Software developer (student job)
  2015

• VDW-Consulting BV.

  Software developer (student job)
  2013 - 2014

Publications

Journal papers (peer reviewed)

• 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

Conference papers (peer reviewed)

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Posters (peer reviewed)

• 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
• 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

Technical reports (not peer reviewed)

• 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

Datasets

• Van de Wynckel, M., & Signer, B. (2025). Survey on the Privacy and Transparency of Location Data. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15564050
• Van de Wynckel, M., & Signer, B. (2025). Sphero Dead Reckoning and CV Tracking Dataset. Kaggle. https://doi.org/10.34740/KAGGLE/DS/6760212
• Van de Wynckel, M. (2025). Garage Positioning Dataset. Kaggle. https://doi.org/10.34740/KAGGLE/DS/6654647
• Vermunicht, B., Van de Wynckel, M., & Signer, B. (2023). 802.11 Managemement frames from a public location. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8003771
• Hoebeke, N., Van de Wynckel, M., & Signer, B. (2023). Object Tracking on a Monopoly Game Board. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7990434
• Van de Wynckel, M., & Signer, B. (2021). OpenHPS: Single Floor Fingerprinting and Trajectory Dataset. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4744380

Press Articles

• 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
• 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/

Academic Services

• Reviewer of the Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability (Journal)

  2025

• Reviewer of the Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (Journal)

  2022

• Reviewer of the Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction

  2020

• OAP representative of the Faculty Research Comittee

  Other academic staff (OAP) representative of the faculty of science and engineering.

  2020 - 2025

• OAP representative of the Department Council

  Other academic staff (OAP) representative of the department of computer science.

  2019 - 2025

• OAP representative of the Bachelor Program Committee

  Other academic staff (OAP) representative of the Bachelor program of computer science.

  2019 - 2025