Ruben Van Parys
Expert Research Engineer at Barco
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolRuben Van Parys is an Expert Research Engineer based in Ghent with 11 years of experience bridging robotics, optimal control, and computer vision into production-ready systems. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from KU Leuven and built open tooling and autonomous platforms during his academic work, including the omg-tools SDK for motion planning. Ruben progressed from academic research to industry impact at Robovision—solving multi-camera 3D reconstruction problems for agritech—and now shapes Agentic AI and vision research into products at Barco. He combines deep numerical optimization and control theory with practical software engineering in Python and C++, delivering robust perception and robotics solutions. Outside work he’s an avid traveler and musician and brings a pragmatic, systems-level perspective shaped by hands-on robotics deployment and mentorship.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering at KU LeuvenMaster of Science in Industrial Science (Ing.), Electrotechnics - Automation, Summa cum laude with congratulations, Master of Science in Industrial Science (Ing.), Electrotechnics - Automation, Summa cum laude with congratulations at KU Leuven BruggeMath - Science, Math - Science at De Bron Tielt
Dutch, English, French, German
Github Skills (36)
planning10
motion-planning10
vacuum7
robot7
xiaomi6
sensor6
home-assistant-integration6
lidar5
integrate4
hvac4
home-assistant4
switch4
automation3
pipenv3
python3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
meco-group/omg-tools
Nov 2015 - Apr 2020
Optimal Motion Generation-tools: motion planning made easy
Contributions:3 releases, 1062 commits, 3 PRs in 4 years 6 months
motionmotion-generationalignmentplanningmotion-planning
meco-group/rtPGM
Apr 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:25 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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