Adam Heins
Postdoctoral Fellow at Acceleration Consortium
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAdam Heins is a robotics researcher and postdoctoral fellow with 12 years of software and embedded systems experience, now applying robotics and AI to chemistry lab automation and accelerated materials discovery at the University of Toronto. His PhD work focused on robust mobile manipulation and nonprehensile object transportation, blending control, perception, and practical robot behavior in cluttered environments. Earlier roles at Pebble, Nest, and BlackBerry honed his low-level C/C++ firmware and automated testing skills, plus Python data tooling for large-scale logs. He combines academic rigor with hands-on engineering across hardware and software stacks, able to move ideas from simulation to lab automation. Based in Old Toronto, he has a mechatronics undergrad and advanced robotics training, and a knack for turning complex physical interaction problems into reliable, deployable systems.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's of Applied Science, Robotics, Master's of Applied Science, Robotics at University of TorontoBachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Mechatronics Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (117)
python10
solver10
3d10
numerical-optimization10
optimization10
robotics10
animation10
code-documentation10
ros-driver10
pytorch10
trajectory-generation10
euler-angles10
mpc10
robot10
transform10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
adamheins/mm-docker
May 2018 - Sep 2025
Contributions:16 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years 5 months
adamheins/fractals
Mar 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:35 commits, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
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