About Me

Maxim was born in Belgium in 1995. After graduating from his Bachelor in Applied Computer Science at the Erasmushogeschool Brussels (2016) with great distinction, he earned his Master of Science in Applied Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2019), also with great distinction. His Master's thesis was on Indoor Navigation by Centralized Tracking and led to his further career as a PhD student researching hybrid positioning systems and interoperability of positioning systems 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. In 2023 he released the SemBeacon Bluetooth Low Energy specification which creates semantic beacons to track and describe persons, objects and environments. He currently is working towards his dissertation on the Discoverability and Interoperability of Indoor Positioning Systems which is expected to be defended in 2025.

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 and previously in courses such as Information Visualisation and Open Information Systems. 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
• Artificial Intelligence for Indoor Positioning techniques