Our People

Professor, Chemistry, IQC

Physics cross-appointment

Francois obtained his PhD at Cambridge University with a thesis entitled “Electron transport in etched GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wires”. Prior to that he obtained an MSc from the University of British Columbia and Bachelor’s from McGill University.

Rubaya received her bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronic engineering from Bangladesh. Rubaya completed her Masters of Applied Science during Spring 2021, focusing on developing control circuits for devices that will enable quantum information processing. She is continuing the next phase of this research as a PhD student.

Bohdan obtained his BSc with Honors in Applied Physics from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine. He joined IQC in Fall 2019 as a Master’s student and completed his degree in 2022. He is starting as a PhD student in Fall 2023, working on a comprehensive simulation package for a scalable spin-based quantum computer in silicon, among other theoretical projects.

Xinning obtained her BSc with Honors in Materials and Nano Sciences from the University of Waterloo and Beijing Jiao Tong University in Fall 2023. She obtained her MSc at the University of Waterloo from our group and is currently a PhD student in our group, focusing on simulations on silicon-based spin qubits. 

William obtained his BSc with Honours in Physics and Mathematics from the University of British Columbia. He is currently working on quantum error correction, specifically implementing quantum low-density parity-check error correction on silicon-based spin qubits. 

Nathan received his BSc with Honours in Physics from the University of Calgary. His current research focuses on radio-frequency reflectometry using a varactor-tuned circuit paired with a single-electron transistor to enable fast, single-shot charge-state readout in silicon spin qubits.

Declan obtained his BS in Physics and BA in Mathematics with highest distinction from the University of Rochester in the USA. His current work involves the theory of dipolar Ising coupling between electron and hole spin qubits in SiMOS quantum dots/simulations on silicon-based spin qubits.

Yuxuan obtained his BSc and MSc from University of Waterloo in 2020 and 2023, and he joined the group as a PhD student in 2025. His current focus is on a single-electron pump (SEP) driven by radio-frequency (RF) electric gates in GaAs substrates.

Cristina Rodriguez received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Physics from the Balseiro Institute in Argentina. Following this, she conducted research in the NMR Imaging and Spectroscopy group at the same institute, where she studied noise and control of quantum many-body systems using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Cristina is currently a PhD student in the group, working on qudit benchmarking for quantum information processing with NMR.

Former Master's student; current PhD student at the University of British Columbia

QuantumCore Ltd.

Former Master's Student

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Former Undergraduate Research Assistant

Scientific Outreach Officer at IQC and pursuing a PhD in English

Quantum Software Developer @ Xanadu

Former Master's Student

Former PhD Student

Former Undergraduate Research Assistant

Former Undergraduate Research Assistant

Summer 2023; USEQIP student

ASML Corporation

Avalon Holographics

Former PhD student; Professor at Yonsei University, Korea

Intel Corp

Angstrom Engineering

Intel Corp

Tsinghua University

Chalmers University of Technology

OTI Lumionics

NSERC and OGS holder; IQC Achievement Award

Electron Beam Lithography Scientist at Quantum Nanofab

Nanotech Inc

McGill University

Center for Quantum Nanoscience, Korea

Anyon Systems Inc

Summer 2021

Chem 494, 2021

USRA, 2015

Chem 494, 2015

Co-op student, 2016

Summer URA, 2016

Summer URA, 2016

Co-op student, 2017, 2018

Chem 494, 2017

2018

Summer URA, 2018

Co-op student, 2018

URA, 2018

Summer URA, 2019

Summer MITACS internship, 2019

Summer URA, 2020

Co-op, Winter 2021