Faculty award recipients

We are proud to list the faculty members who have received funding and awards from the following institutions:

Natural Sciences Engineering Research Council

  • Matteo Mariantoni, 2019 - NSERC Discovery, Discovery Accelerator Supplement
  • Kevin Resch, 2019 - NSERC Discovery
  • Jonathan Baugh, 2019 - NSERC Engage with Kennedy Labs
  • John Watrous, 2019 - NSERC Discovery
  • David Gosset, 2019 - NSERC Discovery, Discovery Launch Supplement, Discovery Accelerator Supplement 
  • Adrian Lupascu, 2019 - NSERC Discovery
  • Christopher Wilson, 2019 - NSERC Discovery
  • Kevin Resch, 2017 -  NSCERC Discovery
  • Raymond Laflamme, 2016 - NSERC Discovery
  • Debbie Leung, 2016 - NSERC Discovery
  • Vern Paulsen, 2016 - NSERC Discovery
  • Michael Reimer, 2016 - NSERC Discovery
  • Kevin Resch, 2016 - NSERC Research Tools & Instruments
  • Raymond Laflamme, 2016 - Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information
  • Michal Bajscy, 2015 - NSERC Discovery
  • Kyung Choi, 2015 - NSERC Discovery
  • Kyung Choi, 2015 - NSERC Research Tools & Instruments
  • Adrian Lupascu, 2015 - NSERC Research Tools & Instruments
  • Matteo Mariantoni, 2015 - NSERC General Research Fund
  • Thomas Jennewein, 2015 - NSERC Discovery
  • Raymond Laflamme, 2014 - NSERC Idea to Innovation
  • Raymond Laflamme, 2014 - NSERC Engage plus
  • Michele Mosca, 2014 - NSERC Discovery 
  • Kevin Resch, 2014 - Canada Research Chair in Optical Quantum Technologies
  • Ashwin Nayak, 2014 - NSERC Discovery
  • John Watrous, 2014 - NSERC Research Grant
  • Jonathan Baugh, 2013 - NSERC Discovery
  • Richard Cleve, 2013 - NSERC Operating
  • Andrew Childs, 2013 - NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award
  • Norbert Lütkenhaus, 2012 - NSERC Discovery Grant
  • Michele Mosca, 2012 - NSERC Create Grant
  • Jonathan Baugh, 2011 - NSERC Strategic Project
  • David Cory, 2010 - Canada Excellence Research Chair Quantum Devices
  • Raymond Laflamme, 2009 - Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information
  • John Watrous, 2007 - NSERC Research Grant
  • Raymond Laflamme, 2005 - Top 50 Discoveries
  • Debbie Leung, 2005 - Tier II Canada Research Chair in Quantum Communications
  • Michele Mosca, 2002 - Canada Research Chair
  • Ashwin Nayak, 2008 - NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award
  • Kevin Resch, 2014 - Canada Research Chair in Optical Quantum Technologies
  • Kevin Resch, 2013 - E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship
  • Kevin Resch, 2007 - NSERC Discovery

Government of Ontario

  • Rajibul Islam, 2019 - Early Researcher Award
  • Wei Tsen, 2018 - Early Researcher Award
  • Michal Bajcsy, 2017 - Early Researcher Award
  • Na Young Kim, 2017 - Early Researcher Award
  • Guo-Xing Miao, 2017 - Early Researcher Award
  • Michael Reimer, 2017 - Early Researcher Award
  • Kyung Choi, 2015 - Early Researcher Award
  • Christopher Wilson, 2015 - Ontario Centres of Excellence Award
  • Michele Mosca, 2013 - Ontario Research Fund
  • Jonathan Baugh, 2011 - Early Researcher Award
  • Andrew Childs, 2011 - Early Researcher Award
  • Joseph Emerson, 2008 - Early Researcher Award
  • Thomas Jennewein, 2011 - Early Researcher Award
  • Raymond Laflamme, 2008 - Premier's Discovery Award for Natural Science and Engineering
  • Raymond Laflamme, 2002 - Premier Research Award
  • Adrian Lupascu, 2011 - Early Researcher Award
  • Michele Mosca, 2012 - Early Researcher Award
  • Michele Mosca, 2000 - Premiers Research Excellence Award
  • Ashwin Nayak, 2008 - Early Researcher Award
  • Kevin Resch, 2009 - Early Researcher Award
  • Kevin Resch, 2008 - Ontario Centres of Excellence

Royal Society of Canada

  • David Cory, 2015 - Fellow
  • Richard Cleve, 2011 - Fellow
  • Raymond Laflamme, 2008 - Fellow

American Physical Society

  • Norbert Lütkenhaus, 2017 - Fellow
  • David Cory, 2015 - Fellow
  • Thomas Jennewein, 2015 - APS Outreach Mini-Grant program
  • Raymond Laflamme, 2008 - Fellow

American Association for the Advancement of Science

  • Raymond Laflamme, 2011 - Fellow

Canadian Association of Physicists & Centre de recherches mathématiques

  • Raymond Laflamme, 2017 - Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
  • Richard Cleve, 2011 - Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

  • Christine Muschik, 2019 - Sloan Fellowship
  • Adrian Lupascu, 2011 - Sloan Fellowship
  • Matteo Mariantoni, 2013 - Sloan Fellowship

Canadian Foundation for Innovation

  • Matteo Mariantoni, 2019 - John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
  • Kyung Soo Choi, 2019 - Infrastructure Operating Fund (IOF)
  • Michele Mosca, 2013 - Leading Edge Fund
  • Kevin Resch, 2007 - CFI Award

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)

  • Christine Muschik, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar, 2020-2022
  • John Watrous, 2019 - Fellow
  • Raffi Budakian - Senior Fellow
  • Richard Cleve, 2013 - Fellow
  • Joseph Emerson, 2013 - Fellow
  • Joseph Emerson, 2008 - Scholar
  • Thomas Jennewein - Senior Fellow
  • Raymond Laflamme - Senior Fellow
  • Debbie Leung, 2005 - Fellow
  • Michele Mosca, 2010 - Senior Fellow
  • Michele Mosca, 2003 - Scholar
  • Ashwin Nayak, 2004 - Fellow
  • John Watrous - Senior Fellow

University of Waterloo

  • Norbert Lütkenhaus, 2022 - Outstanding Performance Award
  • William Slofstra, 2020 - Outstanding Performance Award
  • Joel Wallman, 2019 - Startup Grant
  • Raymond Laflamme, 2017 - Outstanding Performance Award
  • Raymond Laflamme, 2017 - Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis "John von Neumann" Chair in Quantum Information, University of Waterloo
  • Michele Mosca, 2017 - Fr. Norm Choate C.R., Lifetime Achievement Award, St. Jerome's University
  • Christopher Wilson, 2016 - Marsland Family Award
  • Debbie Leung, 2015 - University Research Chair
  • John Watrous, 2014 - Outstanding Performance Award
  • David Cory, 2013 - Outstanding Performance Award
  • Andrew Childs, 2013 - Outstanding Performance Award
  • Richard Cleve, 2004 - Mike and Ophelia Lazardis Chair in Quantum Computing
  • David Cory, 2014 - Outstanding Performance Award
  • Wilhelm Frank - Outstanding Performance Award
  • Norbert Lütkenhaus, 2009 - Outstanding Performance Award
  • Hamed Majedi, 2011 - Faculty of Engineering Distinguished Performance Award
  • Kevin Resch, 2010 - Outstanding Performance Award
  • John Watrous, 2011 - Outstanding Performance Award
  • John Watrous, 2009 - David R. Cheriton Faculty Fellow

Other

Emmy Noether Fellowship, Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics

  • Christine Muschik, 2018

Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee

  • Ashwin Nayak, 2015 - Scholarship
  • Michele Mosca, 2013 - Medal winner
  • Raymond Laflamme, 2005 - Medal winner

Laval University

  • Raymond Laflamme, 2008 - Diplomes Influents de l'Universite Laval
  • Raymond Laflamme, 2005 - Gloire de l'Escolle medal

L'Universite de Sherbrooke

  • Raymond Laflamme, 2012 - Honorary Doctorate

The Ivey Foundation

  • Raymond Laflamme, 2005 - Fellow

Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications

  • Michele Mosca, 2000 - Fellow

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)

  • Richard Cleve, 2011 - Distinguished Scientist

Order of Canada

  • Raymond Laflamme, 2017 - Officer of the Order of Canada

Partnership Group for Science and Engineering

  • Michele Mosca, 2004 - Leaders of Tomorrow

Power and limitations of Quantum Algorithms

  • Ashwin Nayak, 2019

Symposium on Theory of Computing

  • John Watrous, 2010 - Best Paper Award

FQXi

  • Kevin Resch, 2015 - Physics of What Happens

Top 40 under 40

  • Joseph Emerson, 2011 - Waterloo Region
  • Michele Mosca, 2010 - Waterloo Region
  • Michele Mosca, 2010 - Canada

Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC) Outstanding Paper Prize

  • David Gosset, 2019

Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation

  • Jonathan Baugh, 2015

Canada First Excellence Research Fund

  • David Cory, 2016

Public Works and Government Services Canada/Canadian Space Agency Grant

  • Thomas Jennewein, 2016

Waterloo-Technion Cooperation Program

  • Adrian Lupascu, 2015
  • Raymond Laflamme, 2014

Fr. Norm Choate C.R., Lifetime Achievement Award

  • Michele Mosca, 2017