Maarten Weyn
Vice Rector Research And Impact at VLAIO - Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Top SchoolMaarten Weyn is a Full Professor and Vice Rector Research and Impact at the University of Antwerp with 12+ years of academic and industry-facing experience in ultra-low-power sensor communication, embedded systems, and opportunistic localization. He leads imec-IDLab’s university activities and steers research programs that translate low-power IoT and sensing innovations into spin-offs and industrial impact. A serial entrepreneur and connector, he co-founded multiple startups (Aloxy, CrowdScan, IoSA, AtSharp) and helped launch others, bringing research ideas to market. He teaches IoT and wireless courses, instructs on LoRaWAN localization, and shares practical insights as a podcast host and former TV maker, making complex radio and localization topics accessible. Notably, his early work on dynamic fingerprint recalibration is patented and underpins his practical approach to multimodal, infrastructure-light localization. Based in Antwerp, he balances strategic research leadership with hands-on prototyping and community engagement, even brewing beer as a hobby.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
NA, Lic. Informatics, NA, Lic. Informatics at University of AntwerpMaster, dept. of Applied Engineering - IW: Electronics-ICT, Master, dept. of Applied Engineering - IW: Electronics-ICT at Hogeschool Antwerpen
English, French, Dutch
Github Skills (16)
firmware10
iot10
embedded10
modem10
python-modules9
parser9
python7
gateway7
thingsboard-gateway6
react5
typescript4
esp324
javascript3
3d-printing3
thingsboard1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
maartenweyn/teamscheire_tatjana
May 2019 - Oct 2022
Code gemaakt tijdens het uitwerken van de Team Scheire case van Tatjana rond tinnitus
Contributions:62 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 6 months
reacttypescript
TeamScheire/theBenZ
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes in 1 day
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