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Nithin Aaron

Master's Student

Rubaya Absar

PhD Student
Rubaya Absar
Location: RAC 1119

Supervisor: Jonathan Baugh

Laura Adams

Advisory Committee

Pratik Adhikary

Postdoctoral Fellow
Location: QNC 4314

Supervisor: Michal Bajcsy

Avantika Agarwal

PhD Student
avantika agarwa
Location: QNC 3322

Supervisor: Shalev Ben-David

Rubayet Al Maruf

Research Associate
Location: QNC

Supervisor: Michal Bajcsy

Amir Alizadeh

Postdoctoral Fellow
519-888-4567 x39028
Location: QNC 2203

Supervisor: Adrian Lupascu

Amirehsan Alizadeh Herfati

Master's Student
Location: QNC 3114

Supervisor: Pooya Ronagh

Taso Alkiviades

Lab Technologist, RAC & RA2
Taso Alkiviades
519-888-4567 x30219
Location: RAC 2002

As the RAC1 Lab Technologist, Taso is responsible for all equipment in the satellite cleanroom located in the RAC1 building.

His responsibilities include:

  • Installation and optimization
  • Preventative maintenance and repairs
  • Operator training
  • Administrative control point as site lead

Taso graduated from the Mechanical Engineering - Robotics and Automation program at Conestoga college. He has worked 8 years as an Environmental Systems Technologist at COMDEV, servicing space simulation systems, vibration test equipment and various thermal cycling systems. Taso has also worked as a Process Engineering Specialist at Aisin Canada overseeing two major assembly lines.

Nicholas Allen

Master's Student
Location: QNC 3202

Supervisor: Ashwin Nayak

Amit Anand

PhD Student
Amit Anand
519-888-4567 ext 31994
Location: QNC 4201

Supervisors: Robert Mann and Shohini Ghose

Paul Anderson

Postdoctoral Fellow
Paul Anderson
519 888-4567 ext. 31087
Location: QNC 0209

Supervisor Michal Bajcsy

Petia Arabadjieva

Long Term Visitor
Location: QNC 4129

Supervisor: Norbert Lutkenhaus

Amir Arqand

PhD Student
Amir Arqand
519-888-4567 ext 39055
Location: QNC

Supervisor:Norbert Lutkenhaus

Reza Asadi

PhD Student
Location: RA2

Supervisor: Guo-Xing Miao

Vahid Reza Asadi

PhD Student
Vahid Reza Asadi
Location: QNC 3117

Supervisor: Richard Cleve

Yasar Atas

Joint Research Associate - IQC/PI
Yasar Atas
519-888-4567 ext. 39072
Location: QNC 4316

Supervisor: Christine Muschik

Mahmoud Badawy

PhD Student
Location: RAC 2126

Supervisor: Crystal Senko

Jeannie Bairos

Executive Assistant to the Director
Jeannie Bairos
519-888-4567 x37201
Location: QNC 3121

As Executive Assistant to the Director, Jeannie provides administrative support to the Director. She provides assistance with:

  • Admin support for Hiring Committee, IQC Board of Directors, Executive Committee, External Awards nominating Committee, Faculty meetings
  • Annual Faculty Reviews and IQC membership renewals
  • Director correspondence and administrative support for the Director’s research group
  • Maintaining records and copies of all IQC Memos of Understanding (MOUs)
  • General day-to-day management of the Director’s Office

Jeannie first started at the University of Waterloo in 2004 in the Faculty of Mathematics with the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science and Department of Combinatorics and Optimization. She joined IQC in 2015 in her current role.

Michal Bajcsy

Faculty, Associate Professor
Michal Bajcsy
519-888-4567, ext 39279
Location: QNC 4126
Link to profile: Michal Bajcsy
Link to personal webpage: Michal Bajcsy

Severyn Balaniuk

Master's Student
Location: QNC

Supervisor: Roger Melko

Benjamin Bar-Ziv

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Emma Bartlett

Financial Officer
Emma Bartlett
519-888-4567 x41480
Location: QNC 4108

Jonathan Baugh

Faculty, Professor
Jonathan Baugh
(519) 888-4567 ext. 37491
Location: RAC 2112

Admin Support: 

Co-op URA:

Research Assistant Professor:

Research Assistant:

Postdoctoral Fellow:

PhD students:

Master's student:

MQTech:

Graduate Research Assistant/Research Intern:

Undergraduate Research Assistants:

Link to profile: Jonathan Baugh
Link to personal webpage: Baugh Research Lab

Paula Belzig

Postdoctoral Fellow
Paula Belzig
519-888-4567 ext 39070
Location: QNC

Supervisor: Graeme Smith

Shalev Ben-David

Faculty, Associate Professor
Headshot of Shalev Ben-David, wearing a dark shirt, glasses and dark hair
519 888 4567 ext. 53038
Location: QNC 3123, DC 1310

Admin Support: 

Postdoctoral Fellow:

PhD Students:

Link to profile: Shalev Ben-David

Ana Bershanska

Master's Student
Location: RAC 2126

Supervisor: Crystal Senko

Devin Blankespoor

Master's students
Location: QNC

Supervisor: Hans de Sterck

Jade Boutilier

Co-op student
Location: QNC 1204

Supervisor: Kim Kuntz

Agata Branczyk

IQC Associate, Research Staff Member, IBM Quantum

Michael Brannan

IQC Associate, Associate Professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics
519-888-4567 x40767
Location: MC 5002
Link to profile: Michael Brannan

Anne Broadbent

IQC Affiliate, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa
Anne Broadbent

Anne Broadbent is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. 

Broadbent is interested in quantum cryptography, complexity and nonlocality; her current investigations involve quantum protocols for delegating private quantum computations as well as for performing secure quantum computations. 

Previously, Broadbent held an NSERC post-doctoral fellowship, at IQC. She completed both an M.Sc. and a Ph.D under the supervision of Gilles Brassard and Alain Tapp at the Université de Montréal. She holds a B.Math in Combinatorics and Optimization from the University of Waterloo.

Link to personal webpage: Anne Broadbent

Lauren Brown

Co-Op Student
Lauren Brown
Location: QNC 1206C

Raffi Budakian

Faculty, Professor - Currently on Sabbatical
Raffi Budakian
519-888-4567 x31058
Location: RAC 2111

Admin Support:

PhD students:

Master's student:

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Postdoctoral Fellow:

Link to profile: Raffi Budakian

Harry Buhrman

Professor, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI)
Harry Buhrman
Link to profile: Harry Buhrman

Samuel Burke

Undergraduate Research Assistant
Samuel Burke
Location: RA2

Supervisor: Crystal Senko

John Burniston

Research Associates
Location: QNC 4128

Supervisor: Norbert Lutkenhaus

Jamal Busnaina

Postdoctoral Fellow
519-888-4567 ext. 31109
Location: QNC 0211

Supervisor Christopher Wilson

Megan Byres

PhD Student
Location: QNC 2211

Supervisor: Alan Jamison

Ernesto Camacho

Master's students
Location: QNC 4203

Supervisor: Joseph Emerson

Ningping Cao

Postdoctoral Fellow
Ningping Cao
519-888-4567 ext 31196
Location: Perimeter Institute & QNC

Abhijit Chakraborty

Postdoctoral Fellows
Location: QNC 3114

Supervisor: Christine Muschik

Albie Chan

PhD Student
Location: QNC 3201

Supervisor: Christine Muschik

Kyle Chan

Co-op student
Location: QNC

Supervisor: Crystal Senko

C.M. Chandrashekar

IQC Affiliate, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India

Pradnesh Chavan

Master's students
Location: QNC 4323

Supervisor: Joseph Emerson

Raman Cheema

URA
Location: QNC 0212

Supervisor: Adrian Lupascu

Jiahui Chen

PhD Student
Jiahui Chen
Location: RA2 2142

Supervisor David Cory

Yu-Ting Chen

Postdoctoral Fellows
Profile headshot of student
Location: QNC 3116

Supervisor: Kazi Rajibul Islam

Meixin Cheng

Postdoctoral Fellow
Location: RAC 2122

Supervisor: Adam Wei Tsen

Chi-Kwong Li

IQC Affiliate

Andrew Chisholm

Co-op student
Location: QNC 1206

Supervisor: John Donohue

Maria Ciudad Alanon

PhD Student
Location: QNC

Supervisor: Elie Wolfe

Samantha Clark

Senior Manager, Liaison & Integrated Communications
Samantha Clark
519-888-4567 x36429
Location: QNC 1204
Contact for: News stories, media requests and internal communications

Samantha Clark is an experienced Senior Manager specializing in Liaison and Strategic Communications. With over a decade of experience leading communications and public relations for Communitech, one of North America's top innovation hubs, she brings unique expertise to IQC.

Additionally, Samantha has advised numerous early-stage startups, scaling firms, and global enterprises in the business and technology sectors. As a Senior Consultant with Hill+Knowlton Strategies, she was responsible for managing top tech accounts on a day-to-day basis.

Samantha holds a diploma in broadcast journalism and a Bachelor of Public Relations degree from Conestoga College. Her background in journalism and public relations has equipped her with excellent communication skills, making her an invaluable addition to IQC's team.

Sara Clark

Administrative Assistant, Transformative Quantum Technologies
Sara Clark
519-888-4567 x30311
Location: RA2 1102

As the TQT Administrative Assistant Sara maintains the daily operations of the Transformative Quantum Technologies (TQT) program. She also assists the following faculty, as well as their students and postdoctoral fellows:

Further accountabilities include:

  • General administrative support to RAC2 researchers and staff
  • All program orders: supplies and equipment
  • Receiving deliveries
  • Tracking lab equipment inventory
  • Completing all travel and reimbursement claims
  • Shipping via the Agile system
  • Overseeing maintenance and stock of RAC2 general areas

Richard Cleve

Faculty, Professor
Richard Cleve
(519) 888-4567 ext. 37762
Location: QNC 3129

Admin Support:

Postdoctoral fellow:

PhD student:

Master's students:

Link to profile: Richard Cleve
Link to personal webpage: Richard Cleve

Alexandre Cooper-Roy

Adjunct Faculty, Research Associate, Senior Technical Lead, Quantum Simulation, Transformative Quantum Technologies
Alexandre Cooper-Roy
Location: RA2 1201
Contact for: Undergraduate Research Assistant

Postdoctoral fellows:

PhD students:

Master's students:

Co-op students:

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Link to profile: Alexandre Cooper-Roy

Aodhan Corrigan

Co-op Student
519-888-4567 ext 32870
Location: QNC 4129

Supervisor: Norbert Lutkenhaus

David Cory

Faculty, Research Professor
David Cory
(519) 888-4567 ext. 37307
Location: RA2 1118

Staff:

Research Associates:

Research Assistant:

Postdoctoral fellows:

PhD students:

Master's students:

Co-op Students:

Undergraduate Research Assistant:

Link to profile: David Cory

Noah Costa

Co-op student
Location: QNC 4202

Supervisor:  Kevin Resch

Eric Culf

PhD Student
519-888-4567 ext 39041
Location: QNC 3112

Brady Cunard

PhD student
Location: RAC 1118

Supervisor: Michael Reimer

Quazell Cunningham

Co-op Undergraduate Research Assistant
quazell cunningham
Location: QNC B307

Supervisor: Adrian Lupascu

Amir Hossein Dadpour

Undergraduate research assistant
Location: RA2

Supervisor: Alexander Cooper-Roy

Megan Dawson

Master's Student
Megan Dawson

Supervisor: Pierre-Nicholas Roy

Gabriel Vinicius De Oliveira Silva

PhD Student
Location: RA2 (working remotely)

Supervisor Guo-Xing Miao 

Mark Deaconu

URA
Location: QNC 4321
Contact for: Mark Deaconu

Supervisor: Michele Mosca

Charmaine Dean

Vice-President, University Research
Charmaine Dean
519-888-4567 ext. 84889
Location: EC5 3111
Link to profile: Charmaine Dean

Jack deGooyer

Master's Student
Location: RAC 2127

Supervisor: Michael Reimer

Paul Del Franco

Master's Student
Location: QNC 2211

Supervisor: Alan Jamison

Emma DeSousa

NanoFab Administrative/Financial Assistant
Emma DeSousa
519-888-4567 x38150
Location: QNC B207

Daniel Centeno Diaz

PhD Student
Location: QNC

Supervisor: Elie Wolfe

Camilo Diaz-Arevalo

Co-op student
Location: QNC 0212

Supervisor: Chris Wilson

Christine (Chris) Dietrich

Receptionist - RAC
Christine Dietrich
519-888-4567 x37531
Location: RAC 1102

Chris joined the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) in July 2014 as the IQC-RAC (Research Advancement Centre) receptionist, she previously worked in the Office of Advancement at the University of Waterloo for 27 years as a Gift Processing and Administrative Assistant.

As the IQC-RAC receptionist, Chris is the initial contact at IQC-RAC1 and RAC2. She handles general inquiries from external visitors and IQC members including:

  • Keys and fobs
  • RAC meeting room and seminar room calendars
  • Mailroom organization
  • Directory board maintenance
  • Contact information updates for IQC members
  • Parking

Zhiqian (Jessie) Ding

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Supervisor: Alexandre Cooper-Roy

Angelina Doiron

Co-op Student
Location: QNC 1203

Supervisor: Kimberly Kuntz

John Donohue

Senior Manager, Scientific Outreach
John Donohue
519-888-4567 x38931
Location: QNC 1204

John is the Scientific Outreach Manager at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC). John’s roles and responsibilities include:

  • The Undergraduate School for Experimental Quantum Information Processing (USEQIP) and Quantum School for Young Students (QSYS)
  • Undergraduate Research Opportunity program
  • Group tours of IQC
  • Strategic and scientific communications
  • Educational outreach
  • Support with government and industry outreach
  • Scientific demonstrations

John’s main role is to take quantum information science out of the lab and off the whiteboard and bring it to audiences of all sizes and types, including:

  • The general public through lectures about quantum information science and engineering, the importance of curiosity driven research, and the history of quantum mechanics.
  • High school students through lectures and workshops on quantum information, quantum cryptography, and various quantum phenomena.
  • University students through technical lectures on quantum computing, photonics, and various other topics.

John obtained his PhD in Physics and Quantum Information from the University of Waterloo in 2016, specializing in quantum nonlinear optics, followed by postdoctoral research at Paderborn University in Germany. Before that, he studied for his BSc in Physics at the University of Windsor.

Co-op Students

Sean Dougherty

Master's students
Location: QNC 0216

Supervisor : Adrian Lupascu

Dmytro Dubyna

Research Associate
Dmytro Dubyna
519-888-4567 ext. 39047
Location: QNC 4323

Supervisor: Christopher Wilson

Bernard Duncker

AVP, Research and International
519-888-4567 x43051
Location: EC5 3121

Robert Dunlop

Advisory Committee
Robert Dunlop

Robert retired from Industry Canada where he was the assistant deputy minister responsible for science and innovation. He held this position between 2009 and 2014, and before that he served at the assistant deputy minister level at Finance Canada where he co-managed the Economic Development and Corporate Finance Branch. Over his career, he has had responsibilities in a number of areas including program management, policy development and supporting ministers.

Robert is a native Montrealer where he studied economics and finance at McGill University. He now lives in Toronto. 

Matthew Duschenes

PhD Student
Matthew Duschenes
519-888-4567 ext 39153
Location: QNC 4112

Supervisor: Raymond Laflamme

Caity Dyck

Senior Manager, Strategic Events and Partnerships
Location: QNC 1206B

Supervisor: Kayleigh Platz

Emiliia Dyrenkova

Master's Student
Emiliia Dyrenkova
Location: QNC 4317

Supervisor: Ray LaFlammeRichard Cleve

Mohammad Hossein Ebtehaj

PhD Student
Mohammad-Hossein-Ebtehaj
Location: QNC 3111

Supervisor: Shalev Ben-David

Jack Ehling

Co-op student
Location: QNC 0212

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein

Mahmoud El Mabrouk

QVIL Visiting Co-op
Location: RA2 2124

Supervisor: David Cory

Joseph Emerson

Faculty, Associate Professor
Joseph Emerson
(519) 888-4567 ext. 35424
Location: QNC 4312
Link to profile: Joseph Emerson

Collin Epstein

PhD Student
Collin Epstein
Location: RAC 2126

Supervisor: Crystal Senko

Lino Eugene

Micro/Nanofabrication Process Specialist/Engineer
Lino Eugene
519-888-4567 x37788
Location: QNC 1611

As a Micro and Nanofabrication Process Specialist/Engineer, Lino is responsible for:

  • Recipe development
  • Technology integration
  • Process reviews & approvals
  • Equipment access reviews & approvals
  • Statistical process controls

Lino is available to help with:

  • Advice for building devices in the Quantum NanoFab
  • Advice on the feasibility of fabricating a device with Quantum NanoFab equipment
  • “Process flows” for building the device
  • Adaptations of an outside process to existing tools in the cleanroom
  • Hands-on training on equipment where he has particular expertise

Lino joined the institute for Quantum Computing in October 2016. He obtained PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering at Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec and in Integrated Electronic Devices at Institut National des Sciences Appliquées in Lyon, France. In 2011, he joined McGill University where he held the position of Process Engineer at the McGill Nanotools Microfab facility until 2016.

Cole Fehr

Co-Op Student
Location: RAC 2127

Supervisor: Michael Reimer

Kaleb Felefele

Master's student
Location: QNC 3323
Contact for: Master's student

Supervisor: Kevin Resch

Jandira Ferreira de Oliveira

Staff, Facility Microscopist

Forouzan Forouharmanesh

PhD Student
519-888-4567 ext 39051
Location: QNC 3203

Supervisor: Alan Jamison

David Fransen

Advisory Committee
David Fransen

David began his pursuit of the academic life in Winnipeg, where he received a Bachelor of Theology degree from Canadian Mennonite Bible College in 1974. From Winnipeg, he proceeded to the University of Waterloo, where he obtained an Honours BA (1976) and an MA (1977). David then moved to the University of Toronto, where he obtained his PhD in History in 1984 for his dissertation on the role of the first generation of university-trained mandarins in introducing reforms to Canada’s federal-provincial fiscal relations during the Depression and the Second World War.

In 1980, David, his wife, Barbara, and their two young children moved to Ottawa, so that he could conduct the research for his doctoral dissertation. Simultaneously, he began a career in the federal public service at the Department of Finance, moving from there to increasingly senior positions in a variety of departments. From 1988 until 1995, he worked at the Privy Council Office, where he provided policy advice related to such developments as the Green Plan in 1990, the drafting of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, the creation of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, and the creation of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development.

In 1995, David moved to Industry Canada as the Director of Economic Framework Policies in the Strategic Policy Branch. From there, he moved on to become the Director General of the Office of Consumer Affairs in 1997.

In 1999, David became the Director General of the Centre for Healthy Human Development at Health Canada. In this capacity, he chaired committees and boards that were responsible for such initiatives as the creation of a Canadian cancer control strategy, a Canadian diabetes strategy, the web-based Canadian Health Network and variety of children’s and seniors’ health programs. In 2001, David returned to Industry Canada (IC) as Associate Assistant Deputy Minister in the Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunication Sector, where he was responsible for revitalizing IC’s programs delivering Internet-based services to schools and communities. David became Assistant Deputy Minister of the Industry Sector in 2003, where he was primarily responsible for providing policy advice and delivering programs related to some of Canada’s key economic sectors, e.g., automotive, aerospace, life sciences, steel and forestry.

In August 2004, David became Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM) of Policy at Industry Canada, as well as the Director of Investment Canada. As ADM Policy, he chaired a wide variety of boards and committees, such as the Department’s ADM-level Senior Policy Committee, the federal government’s lead committee of Science ADMs, along with a variety of initiatives with external stakeholders, eg. the University Advisory Group (a Vice-President level committee from universities, the federal granting agencies and the private sector), and a joint initiative with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, the Paper Burden Reduction Initiative. David was also a member of the founding Board of Governors of the Council of Canadian Academies, a member of the Board of Directors of the Standards Council of Canada, and the Secretary of the Minister’s Expert Panel on Commercialization.

In January 2006, David was pleased to return to Waterloo as the Executive Director of one of the most innovative research institutes in the world, the Institute for Quantum Computing, and as Associate Vice-President (Strategic Relations) at one of the most innovative universities in the world.

David recently retired from his position as the Consul General, Canadian Consulate General in Los Angeles.

Alexander Frei

Postdoctoral Fellow
Location: QNC 3311

Supervisor: William Slofstra

Matthew Fries

Visitor Program Manager
Matthew Fries
519-888-4567 x38011
Location: QNC 1211

Matt joined the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) in 2011. He manages both the long- and short-term stays of people at IQC. He is available to assist members with coordination and questions regarding IQC visitors.

Before joining IQC, Matt worked with the Math Faculty Computing Facility at the University of Waterloo.

Cyrus (Hin Pok) Fung

Master's Student
Location: QNC B202

Supervisor: Rajibul Islam

Einar Gabbassov

PhD Student

Supervisor: Achim Kempf

Sayan Gangopadhyay

PhD Student
Sayan Gangopadhyay
Location: RAC 1116

Supervisor: Michael Reimer

Alexander George-Kennedy

Master's students
Location: QNC 4129

Supervisor: Norbert Lutkenhaus

Richard Germond

Postdoctoral Fellow
Richard Germond
519-888-4567
Location: QNC 2213

Supervisor: Chris Wilson

Vlad Gheorghiu

IQC Affiliate
Vlad Gheorghiu
Link to personal webpage: Vlad Gheorghiu

Sukanya Ghosal

PhD Student
Location: QNC 4317

Supervisor: Graeme Smith

Shohini Ghose

IQC Associate, Associate Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
Shohini Ghose

PhD Student

Masters Students

  • Mayar Tharwat Mohamed
Link to profile: Shohini Ghose

Labanya Ghosh

Postdoctoral Fellow
Labanya Ghosh
Location: RA2 2126

Supervisor: GuoXing Miao

Sandra Gibson

Nanofabrication and Characterization Scientist
Sandra Gibson
519-888-4567 ext. 37980
Location: QNC B208

As the Nanofabrication and Characterization Scientist, Sandra is responsible for providing technical support for the various characterization tools available in the Quantum NanoFab.

Her responsibilities include:

  • Lab member training and qualification on characterization tools
  • Tool troubleshooting and maintenance
  • Providing sample- and instrument-specific guidance to users

She is available to assist users in producing high quality images, obtaining spectroscopic data and accessing advanced instrument features.

Sandra joined the Quantum NanoFab in June 2018. She obtained her PhD degree in Engineering Physics at McMaster University in 2015 and then went on to complete an appointment as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Michael Reimer’s group in IQC. Her research focused on III-V nanowire-based devices and involved a broad range of fabrication and characterization techniques, including molecular beam epitaxy, transmission electron microscopy and cathodoluminescence spectroscopy.

Mark Giesbrecht

Dean, Faculty of Mathematics
Mark Giesbrecht
519-888-4567 ext. 36582
Location: DC 1340
Link to profile: Mark Giesbrecht

Jeffrey Glasier

Master's students
Location: QNC3202

Supervisor: Adrian Lupascu

Paul Godin

Senior Technologist: Satellite Quantum Communications
Paul Godin
519-888-4567 ext 39057
Location: QNC 4117

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein

Chris Godsil

IQC Affiliate, Professor, University of Waterloo

Ian Goldberg

IQC Affiliate, University of Waterloo
Ian Goldberg

Ian Goldberg is a faculty member in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science. He is a member of the Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) group, and of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research (CACR). His main research interests are in the areas of security and privacy, and specifically in creating useful security and privacy technologies to protect Internet transactions.

Link to profile: Ian Goldberg

Noah Gorgichuk

PhD Candidate
519-888-4567 ext 31323
Location: QNC B203

Supervisor: Matteo Mariantoni

David Gosset

Faculty, Associate Professor
(519) 888-4567 ext. 49012
Location: QNC 3318

Admin Support:

Research Associate:

Postdoctoral fellows:

PhD Student:

Master's Student:

Link to profile: David Gosset
Link to personal webpage: David Gosset

Daniel Gottesman

IQC Affiliate, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Daniel Gottesman
519-569-7600 ext. 8581

Daniel Gottesman is a Research Scientist at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario. He obtained his PhD at Caltech in 1997, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Los Alamos National Lab and Microsoft Research, after which he served in the University of California, Berkeley computer science department as a Long-Term CMI Prize Fellow with the Clay Mathematics Institute. He currently works on quantum computation (particularly quantum error correction and fault-tolerant quantum computation) and quantum cryptography. He developed the stabilizer code formalism for creating and describing a large class of quantum codes. He was also able to show that any stabilizer code could be used to perform fault-tolerant quantum computation. He was recently named to the Massachusett Institute for Technology (MIT) Technology Review's TR100: Top Young Innovators for 2003, and is a Canadian Institute for Advanced Knowledge (CIFAR) Scholar in the Quantum Information Processing program.

Link to personal webpage: Daniel Gottesman

Michael Grabowecky

Quantum Technology Lab Coordinator
Michael Grabowecky
519-888-4567 ext. 38160
Location: RAC 2128

Chris Graham

URA
Location: QNC

Supervisor: Alan Jamison

Matthew Graydon

Research Associate
Location: QNC 4314

Supervisors: Joel Wallman

Naomi Grosman

Communications Officer
Location: QNC 1203

Supervisor: Samantha Clark

Ahmet Gulsaran

Graduate Research Assistant
Location: RAC 2102

Supervisor: Na Young Kim

Croix Gyurek

Master's student
Location: QNC

Supervisor: Samuel Erik Jacques

Lewis Hahn

PhD Student
519-888-4567 ext 31323
Location: QNC B203

Supervisor: Kazi Rajibul Islam

Lucas Hak

Master's Student
Location: QNC 2213

Supervisor: Adrian Lupascu

Nicole Yunger Halpern

IQC Associate, NIST Physicist, QuICS Fellow

Karolina Halys

PhD Student
Location: QNC 0216

Supervisor: Matteo Mariantoni

Lucien Hardy

IQC Affiliate, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Lucien Hardy
519-569-7600 ext. 7521

Lucien Hardy received his PhD at Durham University in 1992 under the supervision of Professor Euan J Squires. He has held research and lecturing positions in various cities across Europe. While in Rome, Hardy collaborated on an experiment to demonstrate quantum teleportation. In 1992 he found a very simple proof of non-locality in quantum theory which has become known as Hardy’s theorem.

Stephen Harrigan

PhD Student
Stephen Harrigan
Location: RAC 1123

Supervisor Jonathan Baugh

Bradley Hauer

Faculty, Assistant Professor
Bradley Hauer
519-888-4567 ext 43199
Location: QNC 4116
Link to profile: Bradley Hauer

Geffrey Haugh

Senior Manager, Evaluation and Accountability
519-888-4567 x 48815
Location: QNC 1208

Zhuoyang He

Master's student
Location: RAC 2123

Supervisor: Na Young Kim

Brendon Higgins

Research Associate
Brendon Higgins
519-888-4567 ext. 39062
Location: QNC 4117

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein

Greg Holloway

Electron Beam Lithography Scientist
Greg Holloway
519-888-4567 x34692
Location: QNC B208

As the Electron Beam Lithography Scientist, Greg is responsible for overseeing the various lithographic processes available in the Quantum NanoFab.

His responsibilities include:

  • Process and recipe development
  • Equipment maintenance
  • Lab member guidance, training, and qualification on lithographic tools

He is available to help users improve their lithographic processes, or trouble-shoot fabrication issues.

Greg joined the Quantum NanoFabrication and Characterization Facility in September 2017. He received his PhD in Physics (Quantum Information) from the University of Waterloo in 2017. His graduate studies focused on spin-based quantum computing in semiconducting nanowires and quantum dots.

Lubaba Hoque

Marketing and Communications Specialist, Transformative Quantum Technologies
Location: RA2-2106

Sehmimul Hoque

Master's students
Sehmimul Hoque
Location: QNC 3114

Supervisor:Pooya Ronagh

Erfan Hosseini

Electronic Shop Technician
Location: RA2

Supervisor: David Cory

Anya Houk

PhD Student
Location: QNC 3203

Supervisor: Michal Bajcsy

Chris Houser

Dean, Faculty of Science
519-888-4567 x46550
Location: ESC 252

Omar Hussein

PhD Student
519-888-4567 ext 31996
Location: QNC 4101

Supervisor: Alan Jamison

Akimasa Ihara

Master's Student
Location: RAC 1117

Supervisor: Rajibul Islam

Irfan Abu Ashik Md

Postdoctoral Fellow
Abu Ashik Md Irfan
Location: RA2 2014

Supervisor: Dmitry Pushin

Kazi Rajibul Islam

Faculty, Associate Professor
Rajibul Islam
519-888-4567 x31995
Location: QNC 4109
Link to profile: K. Rajibul Islam
Link to personal webpage: Kazi Rajibul Islam

Rabiul Islam

PhD Student
Rabiul Islam
Location: RA2 2114

Supervisor Guo-Xing Miao 

Lori Jacobs

Operations & Facility Coordinator - QNC
519-888-4567 x37901
Location: QNC 1212

Sara Zafar Jafarzadeh

Research Associates
Sara Zafar Jafarzadeh
519-888-4567 ext. 39068
Location: QNC 4203

Supervisor: Ashwin Nayak

Akbar Jahangiri Jozani

Postdoctoral Fellows

Alan Jamison

Faculty, Assistant Professor
Alan Jamison headshot
519-888-4567 x39060
Location: QNC 4114

Admin Support:

PhD students:

Postdoctoral Fellow:

Master's students:

Undergraduate Research Assistant:

Co-op student:

Link to profile: Alan Jamison
Link to personal webpage: Alan Jamison

Noah Janzen

PhD Student
Noah Janzen
519-888-4567 ext. 39036
Location: QNC 2212

Supervisor: Adrian Lupasçu

David Jao

IQC Associate, Associate Professor, Dept. of Combinatorics & Optimization
(519) 888-4567 x32493
Link to personal webpage: David Jao

Sam Jaques

Department of Combinatorics & Optimization, IQC Associate, Professor
519-888-4567 x41769
Location: MC 5042
Link to personal webpage: Sam Jaques

Ben Jarvis-Frain

Master's Student
Ben Jarvis-Frain
Location: QNC 0208

Supervisor: Christopher Wilson

Thomas Jennewein

Faculty, Associate Professor
Thomas Jennewein
519-888-4567 x37485
Location: QNC 3317
Link to profile: Thomas Jennewein

Dave Jepson

Research Manager
Headshot of Dave Jepson
519-888-4567 Ext: 38482
Location: QNC 4111

Supervisor: Christine Muschik

Zhengfeng Ji

IQC Affiliate, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Max Jones

Master's Student
Max Jones
Location: QNC 3321

Supervisor: Alan Jamison

Andrew Jordan

Nanofabrication Technician

Tanmay Joshi

Master's student
Location: RAC 1123

Supervisor: Johnathan Baugh

Richard Joung

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Amolak Ratan Kalra

PhD Student
Location: QNC 4321

Supervisor: Michele Mosca

Lars Kamin

PhD Student
Lars Kamin
519-888-4567 ext 39066
Location: QNC

Supervisor: Norbert Lutkenhaus

Connor Kapahi

PhD Student
Connor Kapahi
Location: RA2 2002

Supervisor Dmitry Pushin 

Prem Nigam Kar

Long Term Visitor
Location: QNC 0213

Supervisor: William Slofstra

Courtney Kates

CO-OP
519-888-4567 x41130
Location: QNC 1206

Supervisor: John Donohue

Amisha Kaur

Multimedia and Web Assistant Co-op Student
Location: QNC 1203

Alexander Kazachek

Master's Student
Location: QNC 4324

Supervisor: Graeme Smith

Achim Kempf

IQC Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics
519-888-4567 x40721
Location: MC 6322

Achim Kempf graduated from the Universitaet Heidelberg and obtained his PhD from the Universitaet Muenchen, where his supervisor was Julius Wess. He worked for five years at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge, first for two years as a postdoc with a fellowship from the German National Merit Foundation and then for three years as a Research Fellow of Corpus Christi College in the University of Cambridge. He then worked for three years at the Institute for Fundamental Theory in the University of Florida before joining the Department of Applied Mathematics in the University of Waterloo in summer of 2001. He is professor of mathematical physics and holds the Canada Research Chair in the Physics of Information.

Research Interests:

Main area: Quantum information in quantum gravity, in cosmology and in quantum computing     

Main methods: Functional analysis, generalized Shannon sampling theory in curved space-time

Also: data compression, radar signal design, information theory in genetics, graph theory in QFT

PhD students:

Link to personal webpage: Achim Kempf

Ali Mustafa Khatai

Master's Student
Location: RAC 1117

Supervisor: Rajibul Islam

Timur Khayrullin

Co-Op Student

Bohdan Khromets

Research Assistant
Bohdan Khromets
519-888-4567 ext. 33340
Location: RAC 2121

Supervisor: Jonathan Baugh

Bohdan Khromets

PhD Student
Location: RAC 2121

Supervisor: Jonathan Baugh

Huck Kim

Undergraduate Research Assistant
Location: RA2

Supervisor: Alexandre Cooper-Roy

John Kim

Master's students
Location: QNC 4321

Supervisor: Bradley Hauer

Na Young Kim

Faculty, Associate Professor
Na Young Kim
519-888-4567 ext. 30481
Location: RAC 2101

PhD students:

Master's students:

Link to profile: Na Young Kim

Colleen Kissack

Cleanroom Certification and Inventory Specialist
Colleen Kissack
519-888-4567 ext. 39391
Location: QNC B207

Reza Kohandani

Postdoctoral Fellow
Location: QNC

Supervisor: Adrian Lupascu

Sathursan Kokilathasan

Master's Student
Location: RAC 1116

Supervisor: Michael Reimer

Nikhil Kotibhaskar

PhD Student
Nikhil Kotibhaskar
519-888-4567 ext. 30172
Location: QNC B213

Supervisor Kazi Rajibul Islam 

Wayne Kozun

Chief Investment Officer, Forthlane Partners
Wayne Kozun

Wayne Kozun was responsible for Ontario Teachers’ Public Equities portfolio. Public Equities incorporates internally managed portfolios, the Relationship Investing team and external managers used primarily to broaden geographic scope. In support of these activities, Public Equities monitors the corporate governance practices of the companies in which Ontario Teachers’ invests. Wayne joined Ontario Teachers’ in 1995 and has held various positions including most recently Senior Vice-President, Fixed Income & Alternative Investments. Wayne serves on the boards of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance, the Pacific Pension & Investment Institute and Camelot UK Lotteries Ltd. He holds a BESc from Western University, and MBA from the Ivey Business School, is a CFA charterholder, and is a graduation of the Institute of Corporate Directors.

David Kribs

IQC Associate, Professor, University of Guelph
Photo of David Kribs
519-824-4120 ext. 53038

David Kribs obtained his PhD in Pure Mathematics from the University of Waterloo. He was then awarded an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship and held visiting positions at the University of Iowa, Purdue University, Lancaster University and the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC). In 2003 he took  a position in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of Guelph, where he is presently Professor and Chair. His current research interests are primarily in the mathematics of quantum information; with particular emphasis on quantum error correction, entanglement theory, quantum cryptography, and the connections between theoretical and experimental quantum information science. Outside of academics, he enjoys spending time with his family, reading, and playing sports, especially ice hockey.

Website: http://www.uoguelph.ca/~dkribs/

Hlér Kristjánsson

Postdoctoral Fellow
Location: QNC / Perimeter Institute

Supervisor: Debbie Leung

Bharat Kuchhal

PhD Student
519-888-4567 ext 31109
Location: QNC 3117

Supervisor: Christopher Wilson

Co-Supervisor: Michal Bajcsy

Srijita Kundu

Postdoctoral Fellow
519-888-4567 x 39077
Location: QNC 4324

Katanya Kuntz

Research Associate
Katanya Kuntz
519-888-4567 ext 39046
Location: QNC 4202

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein

Kohdai Kuroiwa

PhD Student
Kohdai Kuroiwa
519-888-4567 ext. 39057
Location: QNC 3321

Supervisor: Debbie Leung

Jan Kycia

IQC Associate, Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy
Jan Kycia
519-888-4567 ext. 35177
Location: PHY 373

Jan Kycia's research group, the Kycia Low Temperature Group, works on the experimental investigation of quantum mechanical properties of sub-micron and micron scaled superconducting devices. In particular superconducting single electron transistors (sSETs) and superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs). They are focusing on gaining a better understanding of how dissipation and the environment affect the states of the devices. They also study the 1/f noise in Josephson junctions. This 1/f noise may be an intrinsic limitation to the coherence time of superconductor-based qubits.

Website: http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~jkycia/

Camille Lacroix

Master's Student
Camille Lacroix
Location: RAC 1123

Supervisor: Jonathan Baugh

Raymond Laflamme

Faculty, Professor
Raymond Laflamme
(519) 888-4567
Location: QNC 4119

Admin Support:

Research Assistant Professor:

Research Associate:

Postdoctoral fellows:

PhD students:

Link to profile: Raymond Laflamme
Link to personal webpage: Raymond Laflamme

Andrew Lagno

Master's Student
Location: QNC 3321

Supervisor: Alan Jamison

Lok Kan (Kyle) Lai

Visiting Researcher
Location: RA2

Supervisor:  GuoXing Miao

Olivier Lalonde

PhD Student
Location: QNC 3322

Supervisor: Ashwin Nayak

Keogan Larade

Co-op
Keogan Larade
Location: QNC 0212

Supervisor: Bradley Hauer

Davis Last

Co-Op Student
Davis Last profile headshot
Location: RA2 2014

Supervisor: Dmitry Pushin

Dejan Latkovic

Co-op student
Dejan Latkovic
Location: QNC

Supervisor: Michal Bajcsy

Dejan Latkovic

Co-op student
Location: QNC 0212

 Supervisor:  Michal Bajscy

Anthony (Tony) Lau

Master's student
519-888-4567
Location: QNC

Supervisor: Richard Cleve

Elizabeth Laura Janes

Undergraduate Research Assistant
Location: Remote

Supervisor: Michele Mosca

Supervisor: Sadegh Raeisi

Chin Lee

Research Finance Coordinator
Chin Lee
519-888-4567 ext. 31189
Location: QNC 3108

Chin joined the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) as the Research Support Assistant to Michele Mosca. Chin provides administrative and financial support in the following areas:

  • including granting agency
  • budgeting and reporting.

Chin’s roles in IQC also include:

  • Backup for the Executive Assistant to the Executive Director

As an Administrative Assistant, Chin assists the following faculty, as well as their students and postdoctoral fellows:

Chin has been involved with invoice management for IQC IT services in the past. Prior to joining IQC in August of 2012, she was part of the University of Waterloo Finance Department.

Isaac Lee

Master's students
Location: QNC 3322

Supervisor: David Gossett

Fabien Lefebvre

Master's Student
Location: B202

Supervisor: Rajibul Islam

Anthony Leggett

Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Anthony Leggett
519-888-4021

Anthony J. Leggett, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics, has been a faculty member at Illinois since 1983. He is widely recognized as a world leader in the theory of low-temperature physics, and his pioneering work on superfluidity was recognized by the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences (foreign member), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society (U.K.), the American Physical Society, and the American Institute of Physics. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics (U.K.). He was knighted (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004 "for services to physics." He is also a Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis Distinguished Research Chair.

Professor Leggett has shaped the theoretical understanding of normal and superfluid helium liquids and other strongly coupled superfluids. He set directions for research in the quantum physics of macroscopic dissipative systems and use of condensed systems to test the foundations of quantum mechanics. His research interests lie mainly within the fields of theoretical condensed matter physics and the foundations of quantum mechanics. He has been particularly interested in the possibility of using special condensed-matter systems, such as Josephson devices, to test the validity of the extrapolation of the quantum formalism to the macroscopic level; this interest has led to a considerable amount of technical work on the application of quantum mechanics to collective variables and in particular on ways of incorporating dissipation into the calculations. He is also interested in the theory of superfluid liquid 3He, especially under extreme nonequilibrium conditions, in high-temperature superconductivity, and in the newly realized system of Bose-condensed atomic gases.

Research Interests:

  • Theoretical Condensed Matter of Physics
  • Low Temperature Phenomena
  • Quantum Fluids
  • Statistical Physics
  • Macroscopic Quantum Systems
  • Quantum Theory of Measurement
Link to profile: Anthony Leggett

Lukas Letuha

Research Associate
Location: QNC 4106

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein

Debbie Leung

Faculty, Professor
Debbie Leung
(519) 888-4567 ext. 33604
Location: QNC 3313

Admin Support:

PhD student:

Postdoctoral Fellows:

Master's student:

Link to profile: Debbie Leung
Link to personal webpage: Debbie Leung

Michael (Ze Yuan) Li

Master's Student
Location: QNC B202

Supervisor: Michal Bajcsy

Yifan Li

Master’s Student, MQTech

Xander Linzel

URA
Location: QNC

Supervisor: Michal Bajcsy

Tristan Lismer

Master's student
519-888-4567 ext 39095
Location: QNC

Supervisor: Kevin Resch

Yinchen (Calvin) Liu

PhD Student
Yinchen Liu
519-888-4567 ext 39084
Location: QNC 3323

Supervisor: David Gosset

Zeyi Liu

Master's Student
Location: QNC 4321

Supervisor: Debbie Leung

William Fredrick Losin

Master's Student
Location: RAC 1114

Supervisor: Michael Reimer

Nicholas Low

Master's students
Location: QNC 0216

Supervisor: Michal Bajcsy

Pei Jiang Low

Postdoctoral Fellow
Pei Jiang Low
519-888-4567 ext. 38782
Location: QNC B206

Zewen Lu

Co-Op Student
Location: RA2

Supervisor: Alexandre Cooper-Roy

Adrian Lupascu

Faculty, Associate Professor
Adrian Lupascu
519-888-4567 x35468
Location: QNC 2202

Admin Support:

Postdoctoral fellows:

PhD students:

Master's students:

URA:

Visitor:

Link to profile: Adrian Lupascu
Link to personal webpage: Adrian Lupascu

Norbert Lütkenhaus

Faculty, Executive Director
Norbert Lütkenhaus
(519) 888-4567 ext. 37489
Location: QNC 3119
Link to profile: Norbert Lütkenhaus

Shilpa Mahato

Master's Student
Location: QNC B216

Supervisor: Rajibul Islam

Alex Maierean (Kirillova)

PhD Student
Alex Kirillova
519-888-4567 ext 39055
Location: QNC

Shayan Majidy

PhD Student
Shayan Majidy
519-888-4567 ext. 39153
Location: QNC 4112

Supervisor Raymond Laflamme

Sonell Malik

PhD Student
Location: RAC 2127

Supervisor: Michael Reimer

Zachary Mann

Master's Student
Location: QNC 4322

Supervisor: Raymond LaFlamme

Matteo Mariantoni

Faculty, Associate Professor
Matteo Mariantoni
(519) 888-4567 ext. 39056
Location: QNC 3316

Admin Support:

Research Assistant:

PhD students:

Link to profile: Matteo Mariantoni

Ryan Mark

Co-op student
Ryan Mark
Location: QNC

Supervisor: Kazi Rajibul Islam

Emily Martin

Events & Operations Coordinator
Emily Martin
Location: QNC 1206

Supervisor: Kayleigh Platz

James Martin

IQC Associate Professor Department of Physics

James obtained his PhD from the University of Waterloo in 1998 under the supervision of J. W. Hepburn (now at UBC). His thesis was titled: "Electric-Field Induced Dissociation of Molecules in Rydberg-Like Highly Vibrationally Excited Ion-Pair States". This work explored the analogy between the motion of two bound oppositely charged atomic ions moving within an excited molecule (an ion-pair state) and a highly excited electron circling an atomic ion (a Rydberg state). In particular, in this work it was proposed and demonstrated (for the first time) that ion-pair states could be dissociated using very weak electric fields. After completing his thesis, James moved to Long Island, New York to work at Brookhaven National Laboratory for L. F. DiMauro on the generation of intense short pulse infrared using high intensity lasers. While there he studied high-harmonic generation using short-pulse mid-infrared. In August 1999 he moved to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia to study Rydberg atoms in T. F. Gallagher's group. While there he worked on the stabilization of predissociating molecular Rydberg states using microwave and radio-frequency fields and the dipole-dipole interaction between cold Rydberg atoms (obtained from excitation of laser cooled atoms). In the Fall of 2000 he returned to the University of Waterloo to set up a laboratory to study basic atomic, molecular and optical physics. At the present time, his group is constructing a laser cooling and trapping apparatus suitable for investigating a wide variety of phenomena associated with cold Rydberg atoms.

Research Interests: Rydberg states, laser cooling of atoms and molecules, dipole-dipole interaction between Rydberg atoms and its applications in quantum information processing.

Link to personal webpage: James Martin

Eduardo Martin-Martinez

Department of Applied Math, Professor | IQC Associate
Eduardo Martin-Martinez
519-888-4567 ext. 39148
Location: MC 6447

There is strongly increasing interest in understanding entanglement and quantum communication in curved spacetimes, and in using quantum information techniques to address questions in gravity and quantum field theory. The new and very active field of relativistic quantum information was recently born to address these questions and it is set to continue developing at this fast pace during the next decade due to continued input from Earth-bound and from projected satellite-based experiments on spacetime curvature, gravitational waves and relativistic aspects of quantum entanglement.

Eduardo’s research combine the fields of quantum information science, quantum field theory and general relativity; studying quantum effects induced by gravity from the perspective of quantum information to gain information about the spacetime structure. This approach has a wide range of potential outcomes and applications from quantum computing technology to the basic physics of the question of how the spacetime curvature and quantum theory impact the flow and the processing of information.

Eduardo completed his PhD in Theoretical Physics in 2011 at the UCM (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) with “summa cum laude” and receiving the "2010-2011 extraordinary PhD thesis award". During his PhD period he collaborated with top scientists in relativistic quantum information in Canada, United Kingdom, Austria, Japan and Poland. In 2012 he moved to the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo for his first postdoctoral appointment. In October 2012 he was awarded the prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. He was also an associate postdoctoral researcher at Perimeter institute.

In 2014 Eduardo was named a Research Assistant Professor at the Institute for Quantum Computing, cross-appointed to the Perimeter Institute. Soon afterward, he was awarded the prestigious John Charles Polanyi Prize for Physics.

In July 2016 Eduardo was appointed Assistant Professor in the department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, becoming an IQC Associate and a Perimeter Institute Affiliate. In July 2020 Eduardo was granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor and in July 2024 he was promoted to Full Professor.

Websites:

PhD students:

Master's student:

Kieran Mastel

PhD Student
Kieran Mastel
519-888-4567 ext 31994
Location: QNC 4102

Supervisor: William Slofstra

Alex May

IQC Associate
Location: Drop In

Sarah McCarthy

Research Associate
Location: QNC

Supervisor: Michele Mosca

Katie McDonnell

Postdoctoral Fellow
Katie McDonnell
519-888-4567 x 39077
Location: QNC 4323

Supervisors: Michal Bajcsy and Michael Reimer

Joshua McPherson

Master’s Student, MQTech
Location: RAC

Supervisor: Jonathan Baugh

Alexander Meiburg

Postdoctoral Fellow
Location: QNC 4316

Supervisor: Graeme Smith, David Gosset

Roger Melko

IQC Affiliate, Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo
Roger Melko
519-888-4567 ext. 38406

Roger Melko received a B.Sc. (2000) and M.Sc. (2001) from the University of Waterloo, and a M.A. (2003) and Ph.D. (2005) from the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 2005 to 2007 he was a Wigner Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, after which he joined the UW Department of Physics and Astronomy.

PhD Students

Master's students:

Link to personal webpage: Roger Melko

Alfred Menezes

IQC Affiliate, Professor, University of Waterloo
519-888-4567 ext. 36934

Alfred Menezes is a professor in the Department of Combinatorics & Optimization at the University of Waterloo, where he also serves as Managing Director of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research (CACR).

Link to personal webpage: Alfred Menezes

Rahul Menon

Research Assistant
Location: RA2

Supervisor: David Cory

Ejaaz Merali

PhD Student

Supervisor Roger Melko

Zach Merino

PhD Student
Location: RAC 1122

Supervisor Jonathan Baugh

Guo-Xing Miao

Faculty, Associate Professor
(519) 888-4567 ext. 31188
Location: RA2 2120
Link to profile: Guo-Xing Miao
Link to personal webpage: Guo-Xing Miao

Sarah Marie Mickelson

Finance & Administration Manager
519-888-4567 x47605
Location: QNC B209

Andres Miranda Sanchez

Master's students
Location: QNC 3324

Supervisor: Bradley Hauer

Alex Mitrovic

Precision Machinist, Transformative Quantum Technologies
Location: RA2 2121

Supervisor: David Cory

Brian Moffat

Director, Quantum Space Program
Brian Moffat
519-888-4567 x38833
Location: QNC 4113

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein

Kimia Mohammadi

PhD Student
student in blazer, smiling with arms crossed
519-888-4567 ext. 39051
Location: QNC 3203

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein

Tiasa Mondol

PhD Student
519-888-4567
Location: QNC 3112

Supervisor: William Slofstra

Chris Monroe

Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland

Michele Mosca

Faculty, Professor
Michele Mosca
(519) 888-4567 ext. 47484
Location: QNC 3106

Admin Support:

Research Associates:

PhD students:

Master's students:

Link to profile: Michele Mosca

Takudzwa Mudzongo

Digital Communications and Website Coordinator
Takudzwa Mudzongo
Location: QNC 1203

Supervisor: Samantha Clark

Bill Munson

Research Associates
519-888-4567 x39380
Location: QNC 3108

Supervisor: Michele Mosca

Ewan Murphy

Research Associate
Location: QNC 0213

Supervisor: Michele Mosca

Christine Muschik

Faculty, Associate Professor
Christine Muschik
519-888-4567 x30228
Location: QNC 4122

Research Group Manager:

Research Associates:

Postdoctoral fellows:

PhD student:

Link to profile: Christine Muschik
Link to personal webpage: Christine Muschik

Marlyn Mwita

Co-op Student
Marlyn Mwita, Co-op student

Supervisor: Alan Jamison

Shlok Nahar

PhD Student
Shlok Nahar
519-888-4567 ext. 39066
Location: QNC 4127

Supervisor: Norbert Lütkenhaus

Shreyas Natarajan

Master's Student
Location: QNC 4324

Supervisor: Graeme Smith

Ashwin Nayak

Faculty, Professor
Ashwin Nayak
(519) 888-4567 ext. 43601
Location: QNC 3124, MC 4034

Admin Support:

Research Associate:

Postdoctoral Fellow:

PhD student:

Master's student:

Link to profile: Ashwin Nayak

Luke Neal

PhD Student
Luke Neal
519-888-4567 ext 39036
Location: QNC 2212

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein

Nathan Nelson-Fitzpatrick

Director, Quantum-Nano Fabrication and Characterization Facility
Nathan Nelson-Fitzpatrick
519-888-4567 x31796
Location: QNC 1207

Nathan joined the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) in January 2012, after completing his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta. As the Nanofabrication Process Engineer, Nathan facilitates the use of Quantum NanoFab equipment for the IQC and WIN communities.

His main responsibilities include:

  • Optimization of equipment performance
  • Recipe development
  • Technology integration
  • Process reviews & approvals
  • Equipment access reviews & approvals
  • Equipment qualifications
  • Statistical process controls
  • Operating and recipe manuals

Nathan is available to help with:

  • Advice for building devices in the Quantum NanoFabrication and Characterization Facility (QNFCF)
  • Advice on the feasibility of fabricating a device with QNFCF equipment
  • “Process flows” for building the device
  • Adaptations of an outside process to existing tools in the cleanroom
  • Hands-on training on equipment where he has particular expertise

He is available for one-on-one consultation and education on cleanroom processes, and for developing new processes.

During his graduate studies he studied micro fabrication, thin film deposition, thin film characterization, X-ray crystallography and nanodevice design. His thesis was on the design and fabrication of micro- and nano-cantilever sensors out of sputtered metal alloys for chemical detection.

George Nichols

Research Associate
George Nichols
Phone: 519-888-4567 ext. 31111
Location: RA2 2108

Supervisor: David Cory

Xianfan Nie

Master's Student
Location: RAC 2106

Supervisor: Adam Wei Tsen

Xianfan Nie

Master's student
Location: RAC 2106

Supervisor: Adam Wei Tsen

Ibrahim Nsanzineza

Senior Superconducting Device Scientist
Ibrahim Nsanzineza
519-888-4567 ext. 39048
Location: QNC 3128

Supervisor: Christopher Wilson

John Nugent

Laboratory Technologist
John Nugent
Location: RAC 1103

Sarah Odinotski

Master's Student
Location: RAC 2127

Supervisor: Michael Reimer

Sung Eun (Paul) Oh

PhD Student
 Sung Eun (Paul) Oh
519-888-4567 ext. 39068
Location: QNC 4203

Supervisor Thomas Jennewein

Addison Okell

Master's students
Location: QNC 3321
Contact for: Addison Okell

Supervisor: Alan Jamison

Nicholas Olsen

Master's student

Supervisor: Eduardo Martin-Martinez

Dogu Ozyigit

Graduate Research Assistant
Location: RAC 2102

Supervisor: Na Young Kim

Pablo Palacios

PhD Student
Pablo Palacios
519-888-4567 ext. 39016
Location: QNC 208

Supervisor Thomas Jennewein

Meg Panetta

IQC Visitor

Supervisor: Chris Wilson

Sebastian Parsons-Hall

Master's students
Location: QNC 3324

Supervisor: Bradley Hauer

Abdolreza Pasharavesh

PhD Student
519-888-4567 x39039
Location: QNC 216

Supervisor: Michal Bajcsy

Tarun Patel

Postdoctoral Fellow
Tarun Patel
519-888-4567 ext. 36072
Location: RAC 2109

Supervisor Adam Wei Tsen 

Vyom Patel

Master's Student

Supervisor: Hans De Sterck

Sakshee Patil

Master's student
519-888-4567 ext 36471
Location: QNC B216

Supervisor: Kazi Rajibul Islam

Vern Paulsen

IQC Associate, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Mathematics

Andrija Paurevic

Master's Student
Location: RAC 1123

Supervisor: Jonathan Baugh

Eva Pearson

URA
Location: QNC 0212

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein

Mark Pecen

Long Term Visitor, Advisory Committee, CEO, Approach Infinity, Inc.
Mark Pecen

Mark Pecen serves as CEO of Approach Infinity, Inc., providing advisory services to firms requiring technology due diligence and management consulting in the areas of wireless communication and emerging technologies, rapidly growing technology companies and their venture capital funding partners. The firm comprises a network of senior executives and experts in the management of technology, innovation, research and development, marketing, sales, global standards, patents, technology entrepreneurship, and individuals with specific technical disciplines such as information theory, radio frequency systems, wireless system protocols, cryptography and others.

Pecen retired as Sr. Vice President, Research and Advanced Technology and technology advisor to the CEO of BlackBerry, maker of wireless smart phones. He was responsible for the creation and management of BlackBerry’s Advanced Technology Research Centre and a significant portion of BlackBerry’s wireless patent portfolio. A past Distinguished Innovator and member of the Science Advisory Board at Motorola, Pecen also managed consultation work for clients in North America and Europe.

Pecen invented a number of technologies that have later been adopted in global standards, including the Global System for Mobile Telecommunication (GSM), Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS), High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA+), Long-Term Evolution (LTE) for 4G wireless and others.

Pecen serves as an advisor to several industry and academic organizations, and is a regular advisor to the Canadian government on wireless communication and research. He holds board positions on University of Waterloo Institute for Quantum Computing, École Polytechnique, Wilfrid Laurier University School of Business, Quantum Works academic network for quantum information research, Canadian Digital Media Network, the Communication Research Centre (CRC) of Industry Canada and others.

A veteran of the wireless industry, he is an author and editor of a number of text books in the area of wireless technology and holds more than 100 fundamental patents in areas of wireless communication, networking and computing, and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Guangyu (Guang) Peng

PhD Student
Location: QNC 0209

Supervisor: Christopher Wilson

Yawen Peng

PhD Student
Location: RA2

Supervisor Guo-Xing Miao

Matteo Pennacchietti

PhD Student
Matteo Pennacchietti
Location: RAC 1118

Supervisor: Michael Reimer

Kostyantyn Pichugin

Research Associate
Location: RAC 2106

Supervisor: Adam Wei Tsen

Kayleigh Platz

Director, Communications and Strategic Initiatives
Kayleigh Platz
Location: QNC 1209

As the Director of the Communications and Strategic Initiatives team, Kayleigh is responsible for advancing the Institute's vision and leads communications, outreach, and business development initiatives.

Kayleigh holds a joint Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and Rhetorical Writing and Professional English, as well as a Master’s degree in Public Issues Anthropology from the University of Waterloo where she studied design thinking, marketing and online identities.

Previously, she was the Senior Manager, Liaison and Integrated Communications at IQC. Prior to joining IQC she was the Manager of Special Operations and the Community Relations Manager at Communitech. She has also held the position of Senior Digital Media Specialist at Communitech and Social Media Specialist at the University of Waterloo.

María Rosa Preciado Rivas

PhD Student

Supervisor: Robert Mann

Pritam Priyadarsi

PhD Student
Pritam Priyadarsi
519-888-4567 ext. 39046
Location: RAC 2107

Supervisor Raffi Budakian 

Keya Purani

Co-op Student
Location: RAC 1119

Supervisor: Jonathan Baugh

Dmitry Pushin

Faculty, Associate Professor
Dmitry Pushin
(519) 888-4567 ext. 31193
Location: RA2 1106

Admin Support:

Postdoctoral fellow:

PhD students:

Master's students:

Co-Op student:

Link to profile: Dmitry Pushin

Yuxuan Qi

PhD Student
Location: RAC 1122

Supervisor: Jonathan Baugh

Jonathan Qualter

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Parinaz Rafati

Master's students
Location: QNC 2214

Supervisor: Adrian Lupascu

Parinaz Rafati

Master's students
Location: QNC 2214

Supervisor: Adrian Lupascu

Smita Rajan

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Anthony Ramsay

Computing Support Specialist
Anthony Ramsay profile headshot
519-888-4567 x30279
Location: QNC 0206

Supervisor: Steve Weiss

Armaan Rasheed

Co-op student
Location: QNC

Supervisor: Crystal Senko

Carter Reid

URA
Location: QNC 4202

Supervisor: Kevin Resch

Carter Reid

Co-op Student
Location: QNC O206

Supervisor: Vinodh Raj

Michael Reimer

Faculty, Associate Professor
Michael Reimer
519-888-4567 x31574
Location: RAC 1113
Link to profile: Michael Reimer

Rodolfo Reis Soldati

Postdoctoral Fellow
Location: QNC 3116

Supervisor: Ray LaFlamme

He (Ricky) Ren

PhD Student
He (Ricky) Ren
Location: RA2 2116

Supervisor Guo-Xing Miao 

Yi Ren

PhD Student
Location: QNC 2214

Supervisor: Adrian Lupascu

Kevin Resch

Faculty, Professor
(519) 888-4567 ext. 38205
Location: QNC 3127

Admin Support:

Master's students:

Link to profile: Kevin Resch
Link to personal webpage: Kevin Resch

Michele Roche (on secondment)

Research Finance Coordinator
Michele Roche
519-888-4567
Location: QNC

In her role as Research Finance Coordinator, Michele assists the following faculty, as well as their students and postdoctoral fellows:

Michele is available to help with:

  • Providing administrative and financial support, including granting agency budgeting and reporting
  • Travel arrangements
  • Handling reimbursements

Prior to joining the team at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), Michele worked in a variety of fields which include a long tenure at the City of Kitchener as an executive assistant/financial administrator, as well as an Executive Assistant with Waterloo Wellington Community Care and Executive Assistant at the University of Guelph.

Cristina Rodriguez

PhD Student
Cristina Rodriguez
Location: QNC 4322

Supervisor: Raymond Laflamme

Jose (Roberto) Romero

Electronics and Instrumentation Technologist, Health, Safety and Environment Coordinator
Roberto Romero
519-888-4567 x31323
Location: Office QNC 4318, Lab QNC 4302

As the Health, Safety and Environment Coordinator, as well as the Fire and Emergency Evacuation Coordinator, for the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), Roberto can help with any of your safety questions. He can help you find out what safety training you require and what procedures you should follow.

As the Electronics and Instrumentation Technologist at IQC, Roberto is responsible for:

  • Cryogenics
  • Milling: PCB (Printed Circuit Board), Soft Substrates and Soft Metals
  • Electro-plating
  • General Electronics Design and Assembly
  • Mechanical Design
  • Electronics Shop (free consumables – general resource for IQC members)
  • Equipment: Rental, Maintenance, Calibration and Certification
  • Temperature and humidity lab analysis data

Before joining IQC in May 2011, Roberto worked in the electronics engineering and manufacturing industry for 12 years. His experience includes:

  • New product application development
  • Validation and production test software development
  • New product validation and verification
  • Automated test systems development
  • Production personnel training
  • Technical support

Roberto also has information on companies that help provide solutions for IQC members in need of more resources.

Pooya Ronagh

Research Assistant Professor
Pooya Ronagh
519-888-4567 ext. 38742
Location: QNC 3113

Supervisor: Raymond Laflamme

Master's Students:

Postdoctoral Fellow:

Link to profile: Pooya Ronagh

Paula Roser

Manager, Graduate and Postdoctoral Programs
519-888-4567 x38702
Location: QNC 3109

Lucas Roy

Master's Student

Pierre-Nicholas Roy

IQC Affiliate, Professor and University Research Chair, University of Waterloo
519-888-4567 ext. 38640

PhD Student

Master Student:

Mahmood Sabooni

Research Associate
Location: B211

Supervisor: Kazi Rajibul Islam

Himanshu Sahu

PhD Student
Location: QNC 3322

Supervisor:   Sisi Zhou

                    Raymond Laflamme

Shihan Sajeed

Visiting Researcher, IQC Affiliate
Shihan Sajeed
519 888 4567 ext. 39047
Location: QNC 4323

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein

Rodello Salandanan

Senior Equipment Technologist
Rodello Salandanan
(519) 888-4567 ext. 31143
Location: QNC 1612

Rod is a Senior Equipment Technologist at the Institute for Quantum Computing. His main responsibilities include High Vacuum (HV) and Ultra High Vaccuum (UHV) equipment for etching, E-beam evaporation and sputtering. He handles:

  • Optimization and performance enhancements
  • Preventative maintenance
  • Repairs
  • Operator training

Fatemeh Fani Sani

Postdoctoral Fellow
Fatemeh Fani Sani
Location: RA2

Supervisor: David Cory

Debankan Sannamoth

Master's Student
Debankan Sannamoth
Location: QNC 4323

Supervisor: Joseph Emerson

Hamza Sayed-Ali

Co-op URA
Location: RAC

Supervisor: Crystal Senko

Luke Schaeffer

Faculty, Assistant Professor
Luke Schaeffer
Location: QNC 3126

Admin support: Chin Lee

Link to profile: Luke Schaeffer
Link to personal webpage: Personal website

Andres Schang

Master's Student
Location: QNC 0212

Supervisor: Chris Wilson

Justin Schrier

Master's Student
Location: QNC 3202

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein

Matthew Schumacher

Associate Director, Finance
Matt Schumacher
519-888-4567 ext. 38030
Location: QNC 4107

Matt Schumacher is responsible for all financial aspects of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), including:

  • approval of expenditures
  • invoicing
  • budgeting
  • reporting
  • financial compliance with university policies and funding sponsors. 

Matt has his CA, CPA designation and is graduate of is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University’s business program.  Matt has been with the University of Waterloo for over 15 years, and with IQC since 2012.

Matt Scott

Fabrication Equipment Technologist and Lab Instructor
Matt Scott
519-888-4567 x39083
Location: QNC 1612

As the Fabrication Equipment Technologist, Matt is responsible for various equipment within the cleanroom. His other roles include:

  • Optimization and performance enhancements
  • Preventative maintenance
  • Repairs
  • Operator training

Matt has been a licensed electrician for over five years and has worked on numerous projects around the Waterloo region, including the Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre. Matt completed his apprenticeship program and trade school at Conestoga College.

Behrooz Semnani

Research Associate
Behrooz Semnani
Location: QNC 2209

Supervisor: Michal Bajcsy

Crystal Senko

Faculty, Associate Professor
Crystal Senko
519-888-4567 x37425
Location: QNC 2201

Admin Support:

Postdoctoral fellows:

PhD students:

Master's students:

Co-op students:

Link to profile: Crystal Senko

François Sfigakis

Research Assistant Professor
François Sfigakis
519-888-4567 ext. 30491
Location: RAC 2124

Supervisor: Jonathan Baugh

Christian Sforza

Co-op Student
Location: QNC 0212

Supervisor: Crystal Senko

Raj Shah

Master's students
Location: QNC 0211

Supervisor: Chris Wilson

Ruhi Shah

Co-Op Student
Ruhi Shah
Location: RA2

Supervisor: David Cory

Ahmed Shahin

Graduate Research Assistant
Location: RAC 2102

Supervisor: Na Young Kim

Nicki Shaw

Senior Facility Microscopist (QNFCF)
Nicki Shaw
519-888-4567 ext 42022
Location: QNC 1611

Kaylee Sherk

Master's students
Location: QNC 3201
Contact for: Kaylee Sherk

Nachiket Sherlekar

Postdoctoral Fellow
Nachiket Sherlekar
519-888-4567 ext. 31998
Location: RAC 1116

Supervisor Michael Reimer

Yu (Jerry) Shi

PhD Student
Yu (Jerry) Shi
Location: RA2 2116

Supervisor Guo-Xing Miao 

Zheng Shi

Research Associate
Zheng Shi
(519) 888-4567 x 39155
Location: QNC 4111

Namanish Singh

Master's student
Namanish Singh
Location: RAC 2107

Supervisor: Raffi Budakian

Pulkit Sinha

PhD Student
Location: QNC 4321

Supervisor: Ashwin Nayak

Urbasi Sinha

IQC Affiliate, Professor, Raman Research Institute
Urbasi Sinha

Urbasi Sinha is a Professor at the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, India. She is heading the Quantum Information and Computing (QuIC) laboratory at RRI. Prof. Sinha is an associate faculty member at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), University of Waterloo, Canada, and the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control, University of Toronto, Canada.

She completed her PhD at Cambridge University, UK, on experiments in high temperature Superconductivity. She completed her M.Sc in Physics also from Cambridge. She has been a Gates Cambridge scholar during her Ph.D and a Nehru-Chevening scholar during her masters. She was a post-doctoral research associate in the Cavendish labs, Cambridge as well as at IQC Canada.

Her lab at RRI specializes in experiments on photonic quantum information processing including quantum computing and quantum communication, primarily using single and entangled photons. She is heading India’s first project on satellite based secure quantum communications.

Her scientific recognitions include the Homi Bhabha Fellowship in the year 2017 as well as the 2018 ICTP-ICO Gallieno Denardo Award in Optics. She was recognised as one of Asia’s Top 100 scientists by the Asian Scientist for the year 2019 and has also been awarded the Simon’s Emmy Noether Fellowship at the Perimeter Institute, Canada. In August 2020,  she led the two-member winning team as a mentor, at the World Skills International Competition in Quantum Technology at the BRICS Future Skills Challenge, organised by the Russian Quantum Centre in Moscow, Russia with competitors from several countries worldwide. She won the ASSOCHAM Women in Cyber: Making a Difference award in the category “Cyber - Leading from the front” in 2021.

Lab website: http://www.rri.res.in/quic/

Link to profile: Urbasi Sinha
Link to personal webpage: Urbasi Sinha

William Slofstra

Faculty, Associate Professor
William Slofstra
Location: QNC 3314

Admin Support:

Postdoctoral Fellows:

PhD students:

Link to profile: William Slofstra

Ethan Smith

Undergraduate research assistant
Location: RA2 2142

Supervisor: Alexander Cooper-Roy

Graeme Smith

Faculty, Associate Professor
Graeme Smith
519-888-4567 ext 35370
Location: QNC 3312

Admin Support:

Postdoctoral Fellows:

PhD students:

Masters Student:

Link to profile: Graeme Smith

Mariia Sobchuk

PDF
Location: QNC 3311

Supervisor: Pooya Ronagh

Mohammad Soltani

Postdoctoral Fellow
Location: QNC 2209

Rolando Somma

IQC Affiliate, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Jiaqi Song

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Ken Speirs

Lab Technologist, RAC & RA2
Ken Speirs
519-888-4567 x 38860
Location: QNC B209

Ken is a graduate of the robotics and automation engineering technology course at Conestoga College. He joins University of Waterloo after 10 years of experience in maintenance and repair of vacuum and thermal simulation chambers at a large aerospace communications company.

Rob Spekkens

IQC Affiliate, Junior Faculty, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

McGill University and completed his MSc and PhD in Physics at the University of Toronto. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at Perimeter Institute and an International Royal Society Fellowship at the University of Cambridge. He has been a faculty member at Perimeter Institute and an affiliate at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) since November 2008. His research is focused upon identifying the conceptual innovations that distinguish quantum theories from classical theories and investigating their significance for axiomatization, interpretation, and the implementation of various information-theoretic tasks.

Link to personal webpage: Rob Spekkens

Jonah Spodek

Master's Student
Location: QNC 4202

Supervisor: Kevin Resch

Sanchit Srivastava

PhD Student
519-888-4567 ext 31994
Location: QNC 4102

Supervisors: Shohini Ghose, Robert Mann

Siobhan Stables

Managing Director
Siobhan Stables, Managing Director of IQC
519-888-4567 x 48689
Location: QNC 3118

As Managing Director, Siobhan Stables oversees the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) business operations, liaises with stakeholders, provides strategic leadership, and works closely with IQC's Executive Director on all non-scientific aspects of IQC's work and development. In addition, Stables is responsible for growing strategic relationships and further establishing IQC as a leader in the global quantum community.

Previously, Stables was Director of the Communications and Strategic Initiatives team at IQC where she was instrumental in promoting and advancing the Institute's vision, overseeing and supporting government relations, communications, outreach, and business development initiatives.

Before joining IQC, Stables worked with public and private sector organizations focusing on marketing communications, strategic planning, business intelligence, and quantitative and qualitative research. She holds degrees from the University of Waterloo and Schulich School of Business, York University.

Douglas Stebila

IQC Affiliate, Associate Professor Department of Combinatorics & Optimization Faculty of Mathematics University of Waterloo
Link to personal webpage: Douglas Stebila

Emma Stephenson

Undergraduate Research Assistant Co-op
Location: RAC 1119

Supervisor: Jonathan Baugh

Fred Sun

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Vidya Suresh

Graduate Research Assistant
Location: RAC 2102

Supervisor: Na Young Kim

Esha Swaroop

PhD Student
Esha Swaroop
519-888-4567 ext. 31996
Location: QNC 4116

Supervisor Raymond Laflamme

Sahand Tabatabaei

PhD Student
Sahand Tabatabaei
519-888-4567 ext. 36070
Location: RAC 2107

Supervisor Raffi Budakian

Ivar Taminiau

IQC Affiliate - Research Scientist
Ivar Tamaniau
519-888-4567 ext. 31187
Location: RAC2 1012

Ernest Y.-Z. Tan

Postdoctoral Fellow
Ernest Tan
519-888-4567 ext 39055
Location: QNC

Supervisor: Norbert Lutkenhaus

Hawking (Xinghe) Tan

PhD Student
Hawking Tan
Location: RAC 2126

Supervisor: Kazi Rajibul Islam

Rahul Tan

Co-op student
Location: QNC 0212

Supervisor: Michele Mosca

Disha Tandon

Co-op student
Location: QNC 1206

Supervisor: John Donohue

Gaurav Ashish Tathed

Master's Student
Location: QNC B206

Supervisor: Crystal Senko

Daniel Tay

Postdoctoral Fellow
Location: RAC 2006

Supervisor: Raffi Budakian

Yi Hong Teoh

PhD Student
Yi Hong Teoh
519 888 4567 ext. 36471
Location: QNC

Dhruv Thakkar

Co-op URA
Location: RAC

Supervisor: Crystal Senko

Fiona Thompson

Master's Student
Location: RAC 1122

Supervisor: Jonathan Baugh

Lin Tian

Postdoctoral Fellow

Adam Wei Tsen

Faculty, Associate Professor
Adam Wei Tsen
519-888-4567 x30375
Location: RAC 2113

Admin Support:

Research Associate:

Postdoctoral fellows:

PhD students:

Master's students:

Link to profile: Wei Tsen
Link to personal webpage: Adam Wei Tsen

Devashish Tupkary

PhD Student
Location: QNC

Supervisor: Norbert Lutkenhaus

Kent Ueno

PhD Student
Kent Ueno
Location: RA2 2134

Supervisor David Cory

Dinesh Valluri

IQC Affiliate
Contact for: Dinesh Valluri

Michael Vasmer

IQC Associate - IQC/PI
Michael Vasmer
519-888-4567 ext. 39048
Location: QNC 3128

Supervisor: Raymond Laflamme

Umesh Vazirani

Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Umesh Vazirani
Link to profile: Umesh Vazirani

Sai Sreesh Venuturumilli

PhD Student
519-888-4567 ext. 31087
Location: QNC 0209

Supervisor: Michal Bajcsy

Nikolay Videnov

PhD Student
Nikolay Videnov
519-888-4567 ext. 36471
Location: QNC B216

Supervisors: K. Rajibul Islam and Michal Bajcsy

Sujatha Vijayakrishnan

Postdoctoral Fellow
Location: RAC 2001

Supervisor: Jonathan Baugh

Stéphane Vinet

PhD Student
Stéphane Vinet
Location: QNC 2214

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein

Anthony Vogliano

PhD Student
519-888-4567 x30168
Location: QNC 0214

Supervisor: K. Rajibul Islam

Sasan Vosoogh-Grayli

Research Associate
Location: QNC 4313

Supervisor: Michael Reimer

Joel Wallman

IQC Associate
Joel Wallman
519-888-4567 x39071

Joel Wallman obtained his BSc (Advanced) in Physics and Mathematics at The University of Sydney (Australia) in 2008 with Honours and was awarded the University Medal for outstanding academic achievement. Wallman completed his PhD in Physics from The University of Sydney (USYD) in 2013 with his thesis titled: Information, Observers, and Quantum Mechanics. He was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Research Scholarship (USYD) and the Denison Merit award (USYD) for his outstanding track record of academic achievement and research potential.

Wallman completed a postdoctoral research position in 2013 at USYD before moving to the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo to pursue a postdoctoral position under Joseph Emerson. In 2016 he was awarded a Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) Physics of the Observer grant. 

After spending two years as Research Assistant Professor, Wallman was named Assistant Professor at IQC and in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo in 2019. During his time at Waterloo he held the position of CTO at Quantum Benchmark, the start-up company he co-founded with Emerson. In 2021, Quantum Benchmark was acquired by Keysight Technologies, where Wallman is now the Research & Development Operations Manager. 

Research Associates:

Postdoctoral Fellows:

Amber Wang

Research Finance Coordinator
Amber Wang
519-888-4567 x43144
Location: QNC 4121

Amber is available to help with administrative and financial support in the following areas:

  • Work-order budgeting and reporting
  • Procurement and shipping
  • Research personnel hires and salary transfers
  • Grad student funding
  • Travel planning and reimbursements

As an Administrative Assistant, Amber assists the following faculty, as well as their students and postdoctoral fellows:

Liuhe Wang

Master's student
Location: RA 2002

Supervisor: Dmitry Pushin

Sarah Wang

Research Finance Coordinator
Location: RAC 1106

As an Administrative Assistant, Sarah assists the following faculty, as well as their students and postdoctoral fellows:

Sarah is available to help with:

  • Providing administrative and financial support, including granting agency budgeting and reporting
  • Handling reimbursements

Xinning Wang

Master's Student
Location: RAC 2121

Supervisor: Jonathan Baugh

Yunkai Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow
Location: QNC 4317

Supervisor: Graeme Smith

Zhiyao Wang

Master's students
Zhiyao Wang
519-888-4567 ext 39065
Location: QNC 4127

Supervisor: Norbert Lutkenhaus

Zbigniew Wasilewski

IQC Associate, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, WIN Endowed Chair

Tarralee Weber

Research Project Accountant, Transformative Quantum Technologies
Tarra Weber
519-888-4567 x31250
Location: RA2 2102

Lan Wei

IQC Affiliate, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo
1-519-888-4567 ext 31423
Location: E5 Room 4023
Link to personal webpage: Lan Wei

Gregor Weihs

IQC Associate
Photo of Gregor Weihs

http://www.uibk.ac.at/exphys/photonics https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2260-3008 https://publons.com/researcher/G-2564-2013

Steve Weiss

Associate Director, Technology Services
(519) 888-4567 ext. 48939

Mary Wells

Dean, Faculty of Engineering
Mary Wells
519-888-4567 ext. 43347
Location: E7 7324,E5 3034
Link to profile: Mary Wells

Frank K. Wilhelm-Mauch

IQC Associate, Professor of Physics, Saarland University
Photo of Frank K. Wilhelm-Mauch

Frank Wilhelm studied physics at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, where he obtained his Vordiplom (B.S.) in 1993, Diplom (MS) in 1996, and Doctorate in 1999.

His thesis research was in condensed matter theory in the group of G. Schoen, studying superconducting nanodevices.

He started working on quantum computing in 1999, when he joined the experimental physics group of J.E. Mooij in what is now known as the Kavli institute for Nanoscience at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands. Still being a theorist, he moved to the Ludwig Maximillian University (LMU) of Munich in 2001, where he obtained the Habilitation and was appointed lecturer in 2004. In 2006, he joined the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada as an Associate Professor of Physics at the Institute for Quantum Computing, with a cross-appointment to Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he was promoted to full professor in 2011. He became a full chair professor at Saarland University in Germany in 2011.

Research Expertise

  • Quantum computing with superconducting nanocircuits
  • Decoherence theory
  • Circuit QED
  • Control theory
  • Quantum noise
  • Mesoscopic physics and nanodevices
  • Nonequilibrium quantum statistics

Degrees

  • Habilitation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2004
  • Doctorate, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany, 1999
  • Masters, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany, 1996
  • Bachelor, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany, 1993

Major Positions

Title Location When
Chair professor Saarland University in Germany 2011-present
Associate Professor Department of Physics and IQC, University of Waterloo 2006-2011
Senior researcher and lecturer LMU Munich 2001-2005
Postdoctoral Fellow TU Delft, Netherlands 1999-2001
Link to personal webpage: Frank K. Wilhelm-Mauch

Christopher Wilson

Faculty, Professor
Christopher Wilson
519-888-4567 ext. 31465
Location: QNC 3122

Admin Support:

Research Staff:

Research Associate:

Postdoctoral fellows:

PhD students:

Master's Students:

URA:

Co-op students:

Visiting Researcher:
Link to profile: Christopher Wilson

Charlotte Wipp

Co-op student
Charlotte Wipp
Location: QNC 0212

Supervisor: Bradley Hauer

Benjamin Wong

Master's students
Location: QNC 3112

Supervisor: David Gosset

Peixue Wu

Postdoctoral Fellows
Location: QNC 4316

Supervisor: Graeme Smith

Christopher Wyenberg

Postdoctoral Fellow
Location: RA2 2140

Supervisors: David Cory and Alexandre Cooper-Roy

Aaron Xayvongsa

Quantum Outreach and Education Research Assistant
Location: QNC 1206 C

Kaiduan Xie

Research Associate

Supervisor: Michele Mosca

Athena Xu

Undergraduate Research Assistant
Athena Xu Headshot
Location: QNC 0212

Supervisor: Michal Bajcsy

Christopher Xu

PhD Student
519-888-4567 ext 39028
Location: QNC

Supervisor: Matteo Mariantoni

Songmin Xu

PhD Candidate
Location: RA2 2014

Supervisor: Dmitry Pushin

Bowen Yang

Postdoctoral Fellow
Bowen Yang
Location: RAC 2109

Supervisor Adam Wei Tsen 

Cindy Yang

PhD Student
519-888-4567 ext 39084
Location: QNC

Supervisor: Christopher Wilson

HeeBong Yang

PhD Student
HeeBong Yang
519-888-4567 ext. 38991
Location: RAC 2102

Supervisor Na Young Kim

Jiayue Yang

PhD Student
Jiayue Yang
Location: QNC

Supervisor: Robert Mann

Zhou Yangchen

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Lyvia Yanover

Undergraduate Research Assistant
Location: RA2 2124

Supervisor: David Cory

Jon Yard

Affiliate
Jon Yard
519-888-4567 ext. 46229
Location: QNC 3126

Admin Support:

Link to profile: Jon Yard

Huan Yi-Shen

Co-Op Student
Huan Yi-Shen
Location: QNC 0212

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein

Beni Yoshida

IQC Associate, Junior Faculty Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Xiang Wen Yu

Undergraduate Research Assistant
Location: RA2

Supervisor: Alexandre Cooper-Roy

Henry Yuen

IQC Affiliate
Link to personal webpage: Henry Yuen

Nadi Zaharieva

Long Term Visitors
Location: QNC 4201

Supervisor: Norbert Lutkenhaus

Nadi Zaharieva

Visitor
Location: QNC B211

Supervisor: Norbert Lutkenhaus

Mohd Zeeshan

Postdoctoral Fellow
Mohd Zeeshan
519-888-4567
Location: RAC 2001

Supervisor: Michael Reimer

Bei Zeng

IQC Associate

Prof. Zeng received the B.Sc. degree in physics and mathematics and M.Sc. degree in physics from Tsinghua University, in 2002 and 2004, respectively.  She received the Ph.D. degree in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2009. From 2009 to 2010, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and the Department of Combinatorics & Optimization, University of Waterloo. In 2010, she joined the Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Guelph, as an assistant professor, and promoted to Tenured Associate Professor in 2014 and Professor in 2018. In 2019, she joined the Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, as a Professor.

Link to personal webpage: Bei Zeng

Yujie Zhang

Postdoctoral Fellow
Location: QNC 3111

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein

Chi Zhang

PhD Student
519-888-4567 ext 39028
Location: QNC 2203

Supervisor: Adrian Lupascu

Jinglei Zhang

Research Associates
Jinglei Zhang
519-888-4567 ext. 39155
Location: QNC 4111

Supervisor: Christine Muschik

Cheng Zheng

Master’s Student, MQTech
Location: RAC

Supervisor: Kevin Resch

Laurent Zheng

Co-Op Student

Sisi Zhou

Associate Member
Location: Perimeter Institute, QNC

Supervisor: Norbert Lutkenhaus

Link to personal webpage: Sisi Zhou

Auda Zhu

PhD Student
Auda Zhu
519-888-4567 ext 30168
Location: QNC 0214

Supervisor: Matteo Mariantoni

Jingwen (Monica) Zhu

PhD Student
519-888-4567 ext 30172
Location: QNC B213

Supervisor: Kazi Rajibul Islam

Artem Zhutov

PhD Student
Location: RA2

Nicholas Zutt

PhD Student
Location: QNC B206

Supervisor: Crystal Senko