PhD student in Differentiable Ray Tracing for Telecommunications.

Education
UCLouvain
2021.09 - Now
Telecommunications Engineer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

Researches: Differential Ray Tracing for Telecommunications.

UCLouvain
2019.09 - 2021.06
Electro-mechanical engineering
Master’s degree

Majored in mechatronics. I undertook a variety of course topics: wireless communications, open source software, numerical simulations, digital design of ICs, mining pattern in data, etc., for a total of 112 % workload. Graduated Magna Cum Laude.

UCLouvain
2016.09 - 2019.09
Applied Sciences - Civil engineering
Bachelor’s degree

I took a major in electricity and a minor in mechanics. In 2017, I received a scholarship to sharpen my English at the Horner School of English, Dublin.

Experiences
UCLouvain
2021.09 - Now
Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Currently working as a teaching assistant, aside my PhD. See teaching duties for more details.

LSM Conseil [Consultancy]
2022.02 - 2022.05
Punctual time volunteer
Belgium

I developed, with the help of my colleague Louis Devillez, a camera-based testbench for medical applications.
We used Raspberry Pi’s for the web interface and control, Dynamixel’s AX12 motors for camera positioning, and many 3D printed / laser cut pieces.

LesScouts ASBL [Non profit]
2015.09 - 2021.09
Scouts chief
Archennes, Belgium

From Sep 2015 until Sep 2019: “Louveteaux” chief (8 to 12 years old), and responsible chief from September 2018 to July 2019.
From Sep 2019 until Sep 2021 : “Eclaireurs” chief (12 to 16 years old) as responsible chief.

Superprof [Freelance]
2017.10 - 2021.08
Private Teacher
Belgium

I gave private courses, averaging 1 to 2 hours per week, to students aged from 12 to 19 years old. The fields I taught were: mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology.

LSM Conseil [Consultancy]
2021.04 - 2021.06
Punctual time volunteer
Belgium

HDL Developer for FPGA based application - I was in charge of implementing an algorithm for a client of LSM Conseil.

NXP Semiconductors
2021.02 - 2021.06
Student Internship
Leuven, Belgium

I helped the Personal and Health R&D team to enhance BLE product by developing software solutions to mitigate Wi-Fi interference and provide collision-free connection scheduling.

UCLouvain
2021.02 - 2021.06
Student's Buddy
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

As part of the Unlock Student Success (USS) program, my role was to guide and help first year students in civil engineering studies to succeed their first year.

UCLouvain
2018.09 - 2021.06
Junior Teachin Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In classrooms of 20-30 peoples, I gave a wide variety of exercise sessions. You may find the complete list of courses in the teaching duties section.

UCLouvain
2020.08 - 2020.12
Student Consultant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Radar ray tracing software implementation: MATLAB to Python translation and optimisation.

UCLouvain
2020.08 - 2020.08
Student Consultant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Radar covering for various land cover. My role was to use public data in order to study the impact of land cover in the radio waves and to build tools around this.

La Sauterelle
2018.09 - 2020.05
Gymnastic Instructor
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
LSM Conseil [Consultancy]
2019.10 - 2020.04
Punctual time volunteer
Belgium

Developped a website add-on for a client of LSM-Conseil. I worked with two colleagues on this project. We motsly programmed in JavaScript and HTML, using the Ionic framework.

UCLouvain
2018.08 - 2018.09
Student Consultant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

I was asked to develop tools, in Python, that would minimize the conflicts in between the student’s exams. Also, I build a GUI to help the secretary visualize the schedule of all the exams. This was done building an custom Excel spreadsheet including colors and several sheets, via a simple user interface.

CESAM Nature
2016.08 - 2018.08
Sport Instructor
Belgium

During summer vacation or for birthday parties, several times, I took the responsability of a small group of kids, aged from 6 to 13 years old, and taught them (new) sports such a moutain biking, roller, etc.

Open Source Projects

Below, you can find some of the Open Source projects I have been working on for the past years.

ADE Scheduler | |

With 2 friends of mine, we created a tool that uses the ade API to create a user-friendly and more convenient experience to every student (and professor) in need of plannings activities.

  • 9000+ accounts have been created
  • 1000+ average daily users
Interests
  • Ultimate Frisbee
  • Gymnastics
  • Open Source Programming
Languages
  • French [Native]
  • English [B2+ / C1]
  • Dutsch [B1]
Teaching duties

Below are listed all the teaching activites I have been involved in at University.

Junior Teaching Assistant is a student job that allows University students to give pratictal sessions for classes they have already passed. Most of the time, the job is limited to giving pratictal sessions but, as I got really involved into teaching, I also often did extra work that would benefit the students, see details.

Teaching Assistant is an actual job position at University.

LELEC1101: Project I in electricity
2023.S1
Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In charge of the pratictical sessions.

LELEC2102/03: Project in Electrical Engineering
2022.S2 - 2023.S1
Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In charge of the wireless communications part.

LELEC2796: Wireless Communications
2022.S2
Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In charge of the pratictical sessions and creating the new project for 2023-2024.

LEPL1109: Statistics & Data Science
2022.S2
Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In charge of the pratictical sessions and creating a hackathon for the students.

LELEC1101: Project I in electricity
2022.S1
Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In charge of the pratictical sessions and creating the project.

LELEC1930: Introduction to telecommunications
2022.S1
Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In charge of creating and giving the pratictical sessions.

LEPL1203: Physics III
2021.S2
Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In charge of the pratictical sessions, including laboratory sessions.

LEPL1109: Statistics & Data Science
2021.S2
Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In charge of the pratictical sessions and creating a hackathon for the students.

LINGI2315: Design of Embedded and real-time systems
2021.S1
Junior Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In charge of the student examination and organization of support sessions.

LEPL1110: Introduction to finite elements
2021.S1
Junior Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In charge of pratictical sessions. I also created detailed solutions for programming homeworks, podcast to help students, and organized support sessions for the project.

LEPL1104: Introduction to numerical methods
2021.S1
Junior Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In charge of pratictical sessions. I also created video podcasts to help students.

LEPL1103: Complex analysis and PDE's
2020.S2
Junior Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In charge of pratictical sessions.

LINMA1170: Numerical analysis
2020.S2
Junior Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In charge of pratictical sessions.

LEPL1109: Statistics & Data Science
2020.S2
Junior Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In charge of pratictical sessions.

LELEC1101: Project I in electricity
2020.S1
Junior Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In charge of pratictical sessions. I also created a Wiki for students.

LEPL1502: Project II
2020.S1
Junior Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In charge of pratictical sessions.

LEPL1105: Analysis II
2020.S1
Junior Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In charge of pratictical sessions.

LEPL1104: Introduction to numerical methods
2020.S1
Junior Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In charge of pratictical sessions.

LEPL1108: Discrete mathematics and probabilities
2019.S2
Junior Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In charge of pratictical sessions.

LEPL113: Complex analysis and PDE's
2019.S2
Junior Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In charge of pratictical sessions.

LMECA1120: Introduction to finite elements
2019.S1
Junior Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

I created detailed solutions for programming homeworks.

LEPL1104: Introduction to numerical methods
2019.S1
Junior Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In charge of pratictical sessions. I also created detailed solutions for programming homeworks.

LFSAB1104: Introduction to numerical methods
2018.S2
Junior Teaching Assistant
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In charge of pratictical sessions. I also created detailed solutions for programming homeworks and I gave a 1h lecture to 400+ BAC 2 students on efficient Python programming applied to the numerical methods, using NumPy.