Timothy Teatro

Background

About Timothy Teatro

A postdoctoral fellow at the Ingenuity Labs Research Institute, Dr. Timothy A.V. Teatro's current research, supervised by Prof. Joshua Marshall and Prof. Kean Birch, centers on large scale network control and swarm robotics. This research has a particular focus on the core technologies of Trellis Transit Technologies, Inc, an industry partner of Connected Minds. Tim holds a BSc (Hons) in Physics, an MSc in Materials Science and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. As an inquisitive polymath, Tim's research has spanned a variety of topics including computational quantum mechanics and quantum chemistry, photovoltaics, forensic physics, nuclear reactor control, mobile robotics, computer science and software engineering. As a child, he marveled at the notion of consciousness as nature's way of understanding itself from within. This fascination with the fundamental and the abstract led him to adopt applied category theory as a potent framework for describing relationship and conceptualising open and interconnected dynamical (cyberphysical) systems. He has been awarded funding from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada for humanitarian research in elder care robots and has been funded by Defence Research and Development Canada developing autonomous systems for defence and security that foster trust between soldiers, civilians and robots. In addition to his research Tim is also a passionate educator. He is an adjunct faculty member at his alma mater, has been a contributing editor to several open-licence high school textbooks and visits school classrooms around the greater Toronto area, sharing his passion for science and technology with future generations. In service to secular humanism, he is the current president of PSAC Local the union of adjunct faculty, teaching and research assistants and postdoctoral fellows at Ontario Tech University. In industry, Tim has served as Chief Technology Officer, scientific fraud Investigator, and holds a patent for a multimedia enabled smart device in the food service industry. Now, as Principal Engineering Scientist at Trellis Transit Technologies Inc, he helps drive a startup bent on revolutionizing urban life with clean, reliable, and safe personalized public transport infrastructure—a stand against the gridlock of conventional corridor-based infrastructure. In lab, classroom, or city, Tim pursues a singular aim: to illuminate the world through reason and ingenuity by applying the methods and tools of science.