Thomas Watteyne (www.thomaswatteyne.com) is an insatiable enthusiast of embedded technologies. He is a Principal Engineer at Analog Devices, in Boston. He is currently on a sabbatical from a Senior Research Director position at Inria in Paris in the AIO research team, working on robotic swarms and low-power wireless. In 2023-2024, Thomas served as the scientific coordinator of the Horizon Europe OpenSwarm project. 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. 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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