Edmonds received his Bachelors at Waterloo in 1987 and his Ph.D. in 1993 at University of Toronto.

His thesis proved lower bounds on time-space tradeoffs.

He did his post-doctorate work at the ICSI in Berkeley on secure data transmission over networks for multi-media applications.

He joined Department of EECS at Lassonde School of Engineering York University in 1995.

[1][2] Edmonds' research interests include complexity theory, scheduling, proof systems, probability theory, combinatorics and machine learning.