Contacts

Supervisor: Pierre Nicholas-Roy

Supervisor: Jonathan Baugh

Supervisor: Shalev Ben-David

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.

Supervisors: Robert Mann and Shohini Ghose

Supervisor Michal Bajcsy

Supervisor:Norbert Lutkenhaus

Supervisor: Richard Cleve

Supervisor: Christine Muschik

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.

Admin Support:

• Amber Wang
• Michele Roche on secondement

Research Associates:

Postdoctoral fellows:

• Katie McDonnell
• Pratik Adhikary
• Paul Anderson

PhD students:

• Abdolreza Pasharayesh
• Sai Sreesh Venuturumilli
• Nikolay Videnov
• Anya Houk
• Bharat Kuchhal

Master's students:

• Michael (Ze Yuan) Li
• Nicholas Low

Undergraduate Research Assistant:

• Charlie Liu
• Bera Yavuz
• Xander Linzel
• David Makarczyk

Co-op student:

• Dejan Latkovic

Admin Support: 

• Sarah Wang

Co-op URA:

Research Assistant Professor:

• François Sfigakis

Research Assistant:

• Bohdan Khromets

Postdoctoral Fellow:

• Roksana Rashid
• Sujatha Vijayakrishnan

PhD students:

• Rubaya Absar
• Stephen Harrigan
• Zach Merino
• Michael Spinazze
• Bohdan Khromets
• Yuxuan Qi

Master's student:

• Camille Lacroix
• Andrija Paurevic
• Fiona Thompson
• Xinning Wang

MQTech:

• Ziyuan Yang
• Yifan Li

Graduate Research Assistant/Research Intern:

• Andrew Jordan

Undergraduate Research Assistants:

• Smita Rajan
• Jiaqi Song

Supervisor: Graeme Smith

Admin Support: 

• Chin Lee

Postdoctoral Fellow:

• Srijita Kundu

PhD Students:

• Avantika Agarwal 
• Mohammad Hossein Ebtehaj

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.

Admin Support:

• Sarah Wang

PhD students:

• Pritam Priyadarsi
• Sahand Tabatabaei

Master's student:

• Namanish Singh

Undergraduate Research Assistant

• Sierra Jess

Postdoctoral Fellow:

• Daniel Tay

Supervisor: Crystal Senko

Supervisor Raymond Laflamme, David Gosset

Supervisor: Kazi Rajibul Islam

Supervisor David Cory

Supervisor: Kazi Rajibul Islam

Supervisor: Rajibul Islam

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.

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:

• Guo-Xing Miao
• Dmitry Pushin

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

Admin Support:

• Chin Lee
• Michele Roche on Secondement

Postdoctoral fellow:

PhD student:

• Eric Culf
• Vahid Reza Asadi

Master's students:

• Emiliia Dyrenkova
• Anthony Lau

Postdoctoral fellows:

• Christopher Wyenberg

PhD students:

• Anastasiia Mashko
• Artem Zhutov

Master's students:

• Soroush Khoubyarian

Co-op students:

• Timur Khayrullin
• Zewen Lu
• Laurent Zheng

Undergraduate Research Assistant

• Xiang Wen Yu
• Amir Hossein Dadpour
• Ethan Smith
• Huck Kim
• Fred Sun

Staff:

• Alex Mitrovic
• Erfan Hosseini

Research Associates:

• Alexandre Cooper-Roy
• George Nichols

Research Assistant:

• Rahul Menon

Postdoctoral fellows:

PhD students:

Master's students:

Supervisor: Adrian Lupascu

Supervisor: Pierre-Nicholas Roy

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

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

• Andrew Chisholm

Supervisor: Christopher Wilson

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. 

Supervisor: Raymond Laflamme

Supervisor: Ray LaFlamme, Richard Cleve

Supervisor: Shalev Ben-David

Admin Support:

• Chin Lee

Master's students:

Supervisor: Crystal Senko

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.

Supervisor: Nathan Nelson-Fitzpatrick

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.

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.

Supervisor: Michael Reimer

Supervisor: Chris Wilson

PhD Student

• Sanchit Srivastava

Masters Students

• Mayar Tharwat Mohamed

Supervisor: GuoXing Miao

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.

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein

Supervisor: Michael Brannan

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.

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.

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.

Supervisor Jonathan Baugh

Admin Support:

• Amber Wang

Masters:

• Andres Miranda Sanchez
• John (Yohan) Kim
• Sebastian Parson-Hall

Co-op:

• Keogan Larade
• Charlotte Wipp

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein

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.

Supervisor:Pooya Ronagh

Supervisor: Dmitry Pushin

Admin Support:

• Amber Wang
• Michele Roche on Secondament

Research Associate:

• Mahmood Sabooni

Research Assistant:

• Sakshee Patil

Postdoctoral fellows:

• Yu-Ting Chen
• Akbar Jahangiri Jozani

PhD students:

• Nikhil Kotibhaskar
• Yi Hong Teoh
• Anthony Vogliano
• Jingwen (Monica) Zhu
• Hawking (Xinghe) Tan
• Lewis Hahn

Master's students:

• Ali Mustafa Khatai

• Akimasa Ihara

• Shilpa Mahato
• Fabien Lefebvre 
• Cyrus (Hin Pok) Fung

URA:

• Zachary Lyu
• Siddharth Chawla

Co-Op Students:

• Lysistrata Chin Kanellaskis

Supervisor Guo-Xing Miao 

Supervisor: Ashwin Nayak

Supervisor: Kazi Rajibul Islam

Admin Support:

• Amber Wang

PhD students:

• Forouzan Forouharmanesh
• Omar Hussein
• Megan Byres
• Paul Del Franco

Postdoctoral Fellow:

Master's students:

• Andrew Lagno
• Marlyn (Boke) Mwita
• Addison Okell
• Max Jones

Undergraduate Research Assistant:

• Nabeel Rasheed
• Jeremie Corkery
• Chris Graham

Co-op student:

Supervisor: Adrian Lupasçu

Supervisor: Christopher Wilson

Admin Support: 

• Amber Wang

Staff:

• Paul Godin
• Brian Moffat

Research Associates:

• Brendon Higgins
• Katanya Kuntz
• Kimia Mohammadi
• Lukas Letuha

Postdoc fellows:

• Yujie Zhang

PhD students:

Master's students:

• Kaylee Sherk

Undergraduate Research Assistant:

• Eva Pearson
• Pavan Dhami

Co-op:

• Jack Ehling

Supervisor: Christine Muschik

Supervisor: Alan Jamison

Supervisor: Norbert Lutkenhaus

Supervisor Dmitry Pushin 

Supervisor: Jonathan Baugh

PhD students:

• HeeBong Yang

Master's students:

• Zhuoyang He

Supervisor Kazi Rajibul Islam 

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 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/

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein

Supervisor: Debbie Leung

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/

Supervisor: Jonathan Baugh

Admin Support:

• Amber Wang

Research Assistant Professor:

• Pooya Ronagh

Research Associate:

• Michael Vasmer

Postdoctoral fellows:

PhD students:

Supervisor: Dmitry Pushin

Supervisor: Michal Bajcsy

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:

• Michele Mosca, 
• Ashwin Nayak, 
• Debbie Leung,
• David Gosset,
• Graham Smith,
• Richard Cleve,
• Joseph Emerson,
• Luke Schaeffer,
• Shalev Ben-David,
• William Slofstra,

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.

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

Admin Support:

• Chin Lee

PhD student:

• Kohdai Kuroiwa

Postdoctoral Fellows:

Master's student:

Supervisor: David Gosset

Admin Support:

• Amber Wang
• Michele Roche on Secondament

Postdoctoral fellows:

• Amir Alizadeh
• Reza Kohandani

PhD students:

• Noah Janzen
• Chi Zhang
• Yi Ren

Master's students:

• Sean Dougherty
• Jeffrey Glasier
• Parinaz Rafati

URA:

• Quazell Cunningham

Visitor:

Admin Support:

• Amber Wang
• Michele Roche on secondament
• Jeannie Bairos for all Director's office business

Research Associate:

• John Burniston

Postdoctoral fellows:

• Srijita Kundu

• Ernest Tan

PhD students:

• Amir Arqand
• Archishna Bhattacharyya
• Devashish Jayant Tupkary
• Lars Kamin
• Shlok Nahar
• Alex Maierean

Masters:

• Zhiyao Wang
• Alexander George-Kennedy

Supervisor: Kazi Rajibul Islam

Supervisors: Thomas Jennewein and Nortbert Lutkenhaus

Supervisor Raymond Laflamme

Admin Support:

• Amber Wang

Research Assistant:

PhD students:

Supervisor: Kazi Rajibul Islam

Supervisor: Kayleigh Platz

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:

• https://sites.google.com/site/emmfis/
• https://uwaterloo.ca/applied-mathematics/people-profiles/eduardo-martin-martinez

PhD students:

• Jose De Ramon Rivera
• Jose Polo Gomez
• Tales Rick Perche
• Adam Teixido-Bonfill
• Erickson Tjoa
• Caroline De Lima Vargas Simoes

Master's student:

• Nicholas Olsen
• Ireneo James Membrere

Supervisor: William Slofstra

Supervisors: Michal Bajcsy and Michael Reimer

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

• Ejaaz Merali

Master's students:

• Severyn Balaniuk

Admin Support:

• Sarah Wang

Postdoctoral fellows:

• Labanya Ghosh

PhD students:

• Reza Asadi
• Rabiul Islam
• Guofei (Phillip) Long
• He (Ricky) Yen
• Yu (Jerry) Shi
• Gabriel Vinicíus De Oliveira Silva

Visiting Researcher

• Lok Kan (Kyle) Lai

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein

Admin Support:

• Chin Lee

Research Associates:

• Kaiduan Xie
• Sarah McCarthy
• Bill Munson
• Ewan Murphy

Master's students:

Supervisor: Samantha Clark

Research Group Manager:

• Dave Jepson

Research Associates:

• Yasar Atas
• Jinglei Zhang
• Zheng Shi

Postdoctoral fellows:

• Abhijit Chakraborty

PhD student:

• Albie Chan

Supervisor: Alan Jamison

Supervisor: Norbert Lütkenhaus

Admin Support:

• Chin Lee

Research Associate:

• Sara Zafar Jafarzadeh

Postdoctoral Fellow:

• Srijita Kundu

PhD student:

• Pulkit Sinha
• Olivier Lalonde

Master's student:

• Nicholas Allen

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein

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.

Supervisor: David Cory

Supervisor: Christopher Wilson

Supervisor Thomas Jennewein

Supervisor Thomas Jennewein

Supervisor Adam Wei Tsen 

Supervisor: Robert Mann

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.

Supervisor: Michael Reimer

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.

Supervisor Raffi Budakian 

Admin Support:

• Sarah Wang

Postdoctoral fellow:

• Abu Ashik Md Irfan

PhD students:

• Owen Lailey
• Iman Salehi
• Connor Kapahi
• Songmin Xu

Master's students:

• Liuhe Wang

Co-Op student:

• Davis Last

Supervisor: Steve Weiss

Admin Support:

• Sarah Wang

Postdoctoral fellows:

• Katie McDonnell
• Lin Tian
• Sasan Vosoogh-Grayli
• Mohd Zeeshan
• Nachiket Sherlekar
• Mohammad Soltani

PhD students:

• Brady Cunard
• Sayan Gangopadhyay
• Sonell Malik
• Brad van Kasteren

Master's students:

• Jack deGooyer
• Sathursan Kokilathasan
• Sarah Odinotski
• Matteo Pennacchietti
• Lucas Roy
• William Losin

Undergraduate Research Assistant:

Co-Op students:

• Cole Fehr

Visiting Scholar:

• Pathompron Jaikwang

Supervisor Guo-Xing Miao 

Admin Support:

• Amber Wang

Master's students:

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

• Norbert Lütkenhaus
• Michal Bajcsy
• Richard Cleve
• Kazi Rajibul Islam
• Adrian Lupascu
• Crystal Senko

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.

Supervisor: Raymond Laflamme

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.

Supervisor: Raymond Laflamme

Master's Students:

• Amirehsan Alizadeh Herfati

• Sehmimul Hoque

Postdoctoral Fellow:

• Mariia Sobchuk

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein

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

Supervisor: David Cory

Supervisor: Joseph Emerson

Admin support: Chin Lee

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.

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.

Supervisor: Michal Bajcsy

Admin Support:

• Amber Wang

Postdoctoral fellows:

PhD students:

• Nicholas Zutt
• Collin Epstein
• Mahmoud Badawy

Master's students:

• Ana Bershanska

• Gaurav Ashish Tathed

Co-op students:

• Kyle Chan
• Armaan Rasheed

Supervisor: Jonathan Baugh

Supervisor: David Cory