About Me

Maxim was born in Belgium in 1995. After graduating from his Bachelor in Applied Computer Science at the Erasmushogeschool Brussels (2016), he earned his Master of Science in Applied Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2019). His Master's thesis was on Indoor Navigation by Centralized Tracking and led to his further career as a PhD student researching Hybrid Positioning and Implicit Human-Computer Interaction under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Beat Signer. Maxim is actively involved in the development of the open source hybrid positioning system OpenHPS, which was released in 2020.

Apart from his PhD research, Maxim is the teaching assistant of various bachelor and master courses such as: Web Technologies, Databases, Next Generation User Interfaces and Advanced Topics in Big Data. He is also involved in the supervision of Bachelor and Master theses related to his research domain.

Research Interests

• Hybrid Positioning (Low-level and High-level)
• Interoperability of Positioning Systems and Navigation Applications
• Indoor Positioning Techniques
• SLAM and VSLAM Implementations
• Augmented Reality for Indoor Positioning
  • Focus on the positioning and tracking with less focus on the 3D design and augmentation
• Web-based Positioning Systems