Dr. Camilo Velázquez-Rodríguez is a Research Engineer at Flanders Make, the strategic research centre for the manufacturing industry in Flanders. He works in Digital Productions, part of the ProductionS Core Lab in Kortrijk, Belgium. His focus is on bridging advanced research and the factory floor: he takes industrial data, AI and digital-twin technologies from an idea to a working, deployed solution.

In collaborative projects with industrial partners, he leads the technical work from requirements and architecture through implementation, deployment and testing. Some of the results include:

• Digital twins of production assets based on industry standards, supporting interoperable data exchange.
• AI-driven automation that reduces manual, time-consuming engineering tasks.
• AI-assisted tools for visual inspection and quality control.
• Data pipelines and cloud-based services that run reliably on real production data.

His background is in software engineering and machine learning. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), obtained in 2024 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Coen De Roover, followed by a postdoctoral position at VUB’s Software Languages Lab. His research has received two Distinguished Paper Awards (SANER 2022 and SCAM 2025). Earlier work in optimisation and mathematical modelling gives him a solid quantitative foundation.

Colleagues know him as someone who takes ownership, adapts quickly to new domains and technologies, and communicates clearly with engineers, researchers and decision-makers. He also contributes to Belgian and European research proposals, and he enjoys turning complex requirements into practical solutions with measurable impact.