Wim Van Aarle
Software Developer at Medicim NV
Antwerp Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolWim Van Aarle is a software developer based in the Antwerp metropolitan area with 11 years of experience specializing in image processing and computed tomography. He holds a PhD and postdoctoral experience from the University of Antwerp and has applied his research background to industry roles at Bruker-microCT and currently Medicim NV. Wim contributes to open-source scientific tooling—most notably making algorithmic and performance improvements to the ASTRA Tomography Toolbox, including MATLAB DART fixes and kernel projector optimizations. He blends deep academic rigor with practical engineering, focusing on numerical correctness and efficiency in 2D/3D projection and reconstruction pipelines. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who translates complex tomographic algorithms into maintainable, production-ready code.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at University of Antwerp
Dutch, English, Italian, French
Github Skills (9)
algorithms10
matlab10
tomography10
data-structure9
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
data-structures9
cuda8
linear-algebra8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
astra-toolbox/astra-toolbox
Feb 2015 - May 2015
ASTRA Tomography Toolbox
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
Contributions summary:Wim made several commits related to the implementation and modification of algorithms within the ASTRA Tomography Toolbox. These changes involved fixing issues with the MATLAB implementation of the DART algorithm, adding support for logical matrices in data handling functions, and adding/correcting geometry retrieval functions for various 2D and 3D projection data objects. Furthermore, the user focused on kernel projector optimizations across multiple algorithms, contributing to overall performance improvements.
matlabtoolboxoctavetomographyastra
wvaarle/avon
Mar 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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