Jan Van den Herrewegen
Jan Van den Herrewegen founded Wattloop in January 2025 and serves as its co-founder and chief executive. Since February 2020 he has also worked as an automotive security consultant at Embercrypt BV.
Between November 2020 and July 2021 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham, where he had completed a PhD in automotive security from November 2016 to February 2021. He earned a Master of Science in cyber security at the same university in 2016, having previously taken a Bachelor of Science in informatics at Ghent University between 2012 and 2015.
His stated areas of expertise are embedded systems, the C and Python programming languages, and diagnostic protocols.
Career
Roles
WattloopFounderJan 2025 – Present
- Embercrypt BVAutomotive Security ConsultantFeb 2020 – Present
- University of BirminghamPostdoctoral ResearcherNov 2020 – Jul 2021
Education
- University of BirminghamDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Automotive SecurityNov 2016 - Feb 2021
- University of BirminghamMaster of Science - MS, Cyber SecuritySep 2015 - Sep 2016
Ghent University#2schoolBachelor of Science - BS, InformaticsSep 2012 - Jun 2015
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