Five professors at Waterloo Engineering were awarded a combined total of just over $7 million in funding today through a federal initiative to advance quantum science and technology.
Dr. Bradley Hauer. Dr. Michael Reimer, Dr. Lan Wei and Dr. Christopher Wilson, all from electrical and computer engineering, and Dr. Sushanta Mitra, of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, were among 13 researchers campus-wide to receive $16.2 million from the National Quantum Strategy for 16 projects.
The strategy was launched by the federal government to tackle important challenges in quantum science, and support the development of quantum technologies, including algorithms and encryption, communications, computing, materials and sensing.
The engineering researchers and projects that received backing are:
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Hauer - $1.35 million for: Next-generation technology to assess new regimes of quantum sensing.
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Reimer - $1.5 million for: Portable semiconductor nanowire quantum sensors with enhanced efficiency and timing resolution; and $2,5 million for: Hybrid quantum repeater node for practical quantum networks.
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Wei - $1.69 million for: Towards large-scale spin qubit quantum computers: simulation, modeling and experiment.
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- Wilson - $241,000 for: Advanced manufacturing for quantum simulation.
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Mitra - $25,000.
Go to Waterloo quantum research gets $16 million boost for a story on all the successful projects at the University of Waterloo.