Thomas Watteyne (www.thomaswatteyne.com, @thomaswatteyne) is an insatiable enthusiast of low-power wireless technologies. He holds a Senior Research Director position at Inria in Paris, where he leads the AIO research team that designs, models and builds networking solutions based on a variety of Internet-of-Things (IoT) standards. He is Wireless System Architect at Analog Devices, the undisputed leader in supplying low power wireless mesh networking solutions for critical applications for industrial and beyond. Since 2023, Thomas is the scientific coordinator of the Horizon Europe OpenSwarm project. In 2019, he co-founded Wattson Elements, the company that develops the award-winning Falco marina management solution. Between 2013 and 2022, Thomas co-chaired the IETF 6TiSCH working group to standardize how to use IEEE802.15.4e TSCH in IPv6-enabled mesh networks. He was a postdoctoral research lead in Prof. Kristofer Pister’s team at the University of California, Berkeley. He founded and co-leads Berkeley’s OpenWSN project, an open-source initiative to promote the use of fully standards-based protocol stacks for the IoT. Between 2005 and 2008, he was a research engineer at France Telecom, Orange Labs. He holds a PhD in Computer Science (2008), an MSc in Networking (2005) and an MEng in Telecommunications (2005) from INSA Lyon, France. He is a Senior member of IEEE. He is fluent in 4 languages.
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