Xavier Neyt received a master in engineering (summa cum laude) from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in 1994, a postgraduate degree in Signal Processing (summa cum laude) from the Université de Liège (ULg) in 2004 and a PhD in Applied Science from the Royal Military Academy (RMA) and the Université de Liège in 2008. In 1995 he received the Frerichs Award from the ULB and the special IBM grant from the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (NFWO).

Since then he has been working as research engineer for the Royal Military Academy, Belgium. In 1996-1997 he was visiting scientist at the French aerospace center (ONERA) and in 1999 at the German aerospace centre (DLR). In 1997-1999 he was responsible for the design of the image compression module of the European MSG satellite and in 2000-2007, responsible for the redesign of the ground processing of the scatterometer of the European ERS satellite following its gyroscope anomaly. Since 2008, he is leading the Scatterometer Engineering Support Laboratory for the European Space Agency at the Royal Military Academy. From 2008 he has been conducting project in bistatic radars, radar imaging, bistatic radar imaging, ground penetrating radars, remote sensing and image interpretation.

He is now professor at the Communication, Information, Systems and Sensors department of the Royal Military Academy. 

His research interests are signal processing, radar remote sensing, array processing, bistatic radars and image processing.