Dr. Martin Adams obtained his first degree in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, U.K, in 1988 and continued to study for a D.Phil at the Robotics Research Group, University of Oxford, which he received in 1992. He continued his research in autonomous robot navigation as a project leader at the Institute of Robotics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland. He was employed as a guest professor and taught control theory in St. Gallen (Switzerland) from 1994 to 1995. From 1996 to 2000, he served as a senior research scientist in robotics and control, in the field of semiconductor assembly automation, at the European Semiconductor Equipment Centre (ESEC), Switzerland.

Since 2000, he has acquired funding for, and been the principle investigator of, 4 research projects, the largest of which is currently coordinating researchers from NTU, SIMTech and NUS, in providing autonomous cleaning and surveillance vehicles to Singapore’s largest theme park Sentosa. He has acted as a research consultant for SIMTech and DSO and has supervised many Ph.D. students. In 2005 he was the coordinator of the SLAM workshop at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
He has published many articles in top ranking robotics journals and conferences, as well as a book and various book chapters. He also represented the school of EEE in a “Remaking the University” Committee, which focussed on the improvement of the running of the university. His teaching activities have resulted in a new “Sensor Fusion and Machine Intelligence” final year specialisation course, and a robotics based design course for third year students.