CV
Basics
| Name | Timothy Everett Adams |
| Label | Graduate Student Control Systems Researcher |
| timothy.adams@mail.mcgill.ca | |
| Summary | A graduate research assistant interested in robust control. |
Work
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2024.05 - Present Graduate Research Assistant
DECAR Group
Conduct theoretical and applied research of robust control in robotics and energy systems.
- Control systems
- Robust control
- System Identification
- Python
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2023.05 - 2023.08 Undergraduate Research Assistant
Mydlarski Lab
Improve the design of a hot-wire anemometer fluid velocity measurement device.
- Developped a MATLAB program to simulate the linearized circuit dynamics of a hot-wire anemometer fluid velocity measurement device.
- Improve the design of a hot-wire anemometer circuit by redesigning the feedback amplifier network based on the simulation results.
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2022.05 - 2022.08 Undergraduate Research Assistant
Mydlarski Lab
Design a low-cost hot-wire anemometer fluid velocity measurement device.
- Designed an analog electronic circuit for a low-cost hot-wire anemometer fluid velocity measurement device.
- Designed and assembled a prototype PCB of the hot-wire anemometer circuit using KiCad.
- Benchmarked the performance of the anemometer prototype against a commercial unit in a turbulent jet and analyzed the data using MATLAB.
Education
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2024.09 - 2026.09 Montreal, Canada
Master of Science
McGill University
Mechanical Engineering
GPA: 4.00/4.00
- Optimization
- Control Systems
- System Identification
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2020.09 - 2024.05 Montreal, Canada
Awards
- 2025.09
McGill Engineering Undergraduate Student Master's Award (MEUSMA)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
Internal funding award for M.Sc. students at McGill University based on the student's academic and research record.
- 2024.09
Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master's program (CGS-M)
McGill University
Scholarship to support graduate students in a Master's program that demonstrate a high standard of achievement in undergraduate and early graduate studies.
- 2024.05
British Association Medal
McGill University
Graduation medal awarded for achieving the highest academic standing in the graduating class for the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
- 2024.05
Dean's Honour List
McGill University
Honour awarded to students that rank in the top 10% of the Faculty of Engineering based on CGPA.
- 2022.05, 2023.05
Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
Award to support undergraduate research work experience based on academic excellence, research potential, and expected quality of training.
Publications
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2025.08.28 Design of Input-Output Observers for a Population of Systems with Bounded Frequency-Domain Variation using DK-iteration
N/A
This paper deals with the design of a set of state observers for a population of devices with variation in their system dynamics using tools from robust control theory.
Skills
| Control Systems | |
| Classical Control | |
| Optimal Control | |
| System Identification for Control | |
| Robust Control |
| Programming | |
| Python | |
| MATLAB |
Languages
| English | |
| Native speaker |
| French | |
| Fluent |
| Italian | |
| Beginner |