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Nithin Aaron
Master's Student

Rubaya Absar
PhD Student

Laura Adams
Advisory Committee
Pratik Adhikary
Postdoctoral Fellow
Avantika Agarwal
PhD Student

Rubayet Al Maruf
Research Associate
Amir Alizadeh
Postdoctoral Fellow
Amirehsan Alizadeh Herfati
Master's Student
Supervisor: Pooya Ronagh
Taso Alkiviades
Lab Technologist, RAC & RA2

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
Amit Anand
PhD Student

Supervisors: Robert Mann and Shohini Ghose
Paul Anderson
Postdoctoral Fellow

Petia Arabadjieva
Long Term Visitor
Amir Arqand
PhD Student

Reza Asadi
PhD Student
Vahid Reza Asadi
PhD Student

Yasar Atas
Joint Research Associate - IQC/PI

Mahmoud Badawy
PhD Student
Jeannie Bairos
Executive Assistant to the Director

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

Admin Support:
- Amber Wang
- Michele Roche on secondement
Research Associates:
Postdoctoral fellows:
PhD students:
Master's students:
Undergraduate Research Assistant:
Co-op student:
Severyn Balaniuk
Master's Student
Benjamin Bar-Ziv
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Supervisor: Michal Bajcsy
Emma Bartlett
Financial Officer

Jonathan Baugh
Faculty, Professor

Admin Support:
Co-op URA:
Research Assistant Professor:
Research Assistant:
Postdoctoral Fellow:
PhD students:
- Rubaya Absar
- Stephen Harrigan
- Zach Merino
- Michael Spinazze
- Bohdan Khromets
- Yuxuan Qi
Master's student:
MQTech:
Graduate Research Assistant/Research Intern:
Undergraduate Research Assistants:
Paula Belzig
Postdoctoral Fellow

Shalev Ben-David
Faculty, Associate Professor

Admin Support:
Postdoctoral Fellow:
PhD Students:
Ana Bershanska
Master's Student
Archishna Bhattacharyya
PhD Student
Devin Blankespoor
Master's students
Jade Boutilier
Co-op student
Agata Branczyk
IQC Associate, Research Staff Member, IBM Quantum

Michael Brannan
IQC Associate, Associate Professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics
Grant Brassem
Master's student
Supervisor: David Cory
Anne Broadbent
IQC Affiliate, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa

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.
Lauren Brown
Co-Op Student

Raffi Budakian
Faculty, Professor - Currently on Sabbatical

Admin Support:
PhD students:
Master's student:
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Postdoctoral Fellow:
Harry Buhrman
Professor, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI)

Samuel Burke
Undergraduate Research Assistant

John Burniston
Research Associates
Jamal Busnaina
Postdoctoral Fellow
Megan Byres
PhD Student
Ernesto Camacho
Master's students
Matthew Campagna
IQC Affiliate
Ningping Cao
Postdoctoral Fellow

Supervisor Raymond Laflamme, David Gosset
Abhijit Chakraborty
Postdoctoral Fellows
Albie Chan
PhD Student
Kyle Chan
Co-op student
C.M. Chandrashekar
IQC Affiliate, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India
Pradnesh Chavan
Master's students
Siddharth Chawla
URA

Raman Cheema
URA
Jiahui Chen
PhD Student

Yu-Ting Chen
Postdoctoral Fellows

Meixin Cheng
Postdoctoral Fellow
Chi-Kwong Li
IQC Affiliate
Lysistrata Chin Kanellakis
Co-op student

Andrew Chisholm
Co-op student
Maria Ciudad Alanon
PhD Student
Samantha Clark
Senior Manager, Liaison & Integrated 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

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

Admin Support:
- Chin Lee
- Michele Roche on Secondement
Postdoctoral fellow:
PhD student:
Master's students:
Lyra Collins
URA
Alexandre Cooper-Roy
Adjunct Faculty, Research Associate, Senior Technical Lead, Quantum Simulation, Transformative Quantum Technologies

Postdoctoral fellows:
PhD students:
Master's students:
Co-op students:
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Jeremie Corkery
URA
Aodhan Corrigan
Co-op Student
David Cory
Faculty, Research Professor

Staff:
Research Associates:
Research Assistant:
Postdoctoral fellows:
PhD students:
Master's students:
Noah Costa
Co-op student
Jason Crann
IQC Affiliate

Eric Culf
PhD Student
Brady Cunard
PhD student
Quazell Cunningham
Co-op Undergraduate Research Assistant

Amir Hossein Dadpour
Undergraduate research assistant
Megan Dawson
Master's Student

Supervisor: Pierre-Nicholas Roy
Gabriel Vinicius De Oliveira Silva
PhD Student
Mark Deaconu
URA
Charmaine Dean
Vice-President, University Research

Jack deGooyer
Master's Student
Paul Del Franco
Master's Student
Emma DeSousa
NanoFab Administrative/Financial Assistant

Pavan Dhami
URA
Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein
Daniel Centeno Diaz
PhD Student
Camilo Diaz-Arevalo
Co-op student
Christine (Chris) Dietrich
Receptionist - RAC

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
John Donohue
Senior Manager, Scientific Outreach

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
Kat Driscoll
URA
Dmytro Dubyna
Research Associate

Bernard Duncker
AVP, Research and International
Robert Dunlop
Advisory Committee

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

Caity Dyck
Senior Manager, Strategic Events and Partnerships
Emiliia Dyrenkova
Master's Student

Mohammad Hossein Ebtehaj
PhD Student

Jack Ehling
Co-op student
Mahmoud El Mabrouk
QVIL Visiting Co-op
Joseph Emerson
Faculty, Associate Professor

Admin Support:
Master's students:
Collin Epstein
PhD Student

Lino Eugene
Micro/Nanofabrication Process Specialist/Engineer

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
Kaleb Felefele
Master's student
Jandira Ferreira de Oliveira
Staff, Facility Microscopist

Forouzan Forouharmanesh
PhD Student
David Fransen
Advisory Committee

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
Matthew Fries
Visitor Program Manager

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
Einar Gabbassov
PhD Student
Supervisor: Achim Kempf
Sayan Gangopadhyay
PhD Student

Alexander George-Kennedy
Master's students
Richard Germond
Postdoctoral Fellow

Vlad Gheorghiu
IQC Affiliate

Sukanya Ghosal
PhD Student
Shohini Ghose
IQC Associate, Associate Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University

Labanya Ghosh
Postdoctoral Fellow

Sandra Gibson
Nanofabrication and Characterization Scientist

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

Jeffrey Glasier
Master's students
Paul Godin
Senior Technologist: Satellite Quantum Communications

Chris Godsil
IQC Affiliate, Professor, University of Waterloo
Adina Goldberg
PhD Student

Supervisor: Michael Brannan
Ian Goldberg
IQC Affiliate, University of Waterloo

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.
Sriram Gopalakrishnan
PhD Student
Supervisor: Beni Yoshida
Noah Gorgichuk
PhD Candidate
David Gosset
Faculty, Associate Professor
Admin Support:
Research Associate:
Postdoctoral fellows:
PhD Student:
Master's Student:
Daniel Gottesman
IQC Affiliate, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

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.
Alec Gow
PhD Student
Supervisor: Michael Brannan
Michael Grabowecky
Quantum Technology Lab Coordinator

Chris Graham
URA
Matthew Graydon
Research Associate
Naomi Grosman
Communications Officer
Ahmet Gulsaran
Graduate Research Assistant
Croix Gyurek
Master's student
Lewis Hahn
PhD Student
Lucas Hak
Master's Student
Nicole Yunger Halpern
IQC Associate, NIST Physicist, QuICS Fellow
Karolina Halys
PhD Student
Lucien Hardy
IQC Affiliate, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

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

Bradley Hauer
Faculty, Assistant Professor

Admin Support:
Masters:
Co-op:
Geffrey Haugh
Senior Manager, Evaluation and Accountability
Zhuoyang He
Master's student
Brendon Higgins
Research Associate

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein
Greg Holloway
Electron Beam Lithography Scientist

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
Sehmimul Hoque
Master's students

Erfan Hosseini
Electronic Shop Technician
Anya Houk
PhD Student
Chris Houser
Dean, Faculty of Science
Omar Hussein
PhD Student
Akimasa Ihara
Master's Student
Irfan Abu Ashik Md
Postdoctoral Fellow

Kazi Rajibul Islam
Faculty, Associate Professor

Admin Support:
- Amber Wang
- Michele Roche on Secondament
Research Associate:
Research Assistant:
Postdoctoral fellows:
PhD students:
- Nikhil Kotibhaskar
- Yi Hong Teoh
- Anthony Vogliano
- Jingwen (Monica) Zhu
- Hawking (Xinghe) Tan
- Lewis Hahn
Master's students:
URA:
Co-Op Students:
Rabiul Islam
PhD Student

Lori Jacobs
Operations & Facility Coordinator - QNC
Sara Zafar Jafarzadeh
Research Associates

Akbar Jahangiri Jozani
Postdoctoral Fellows

Pathompron Jaikwang
Visiting Scholar
Suopervisor: Michael Reimer
Alan Jamison
Faculty, Assistant Professor

Admin Support:
PhD students:
Postdoctoral Fellow:
Master's students:
Undergraduate Research Assistant:
Co-op student:
Armin Jamshidpey
IQC Affiliate

Noah Janzen
PhD Student

Sam Jaques
Department of Combinatorics & Optimization, IQC Associate, Professor
Ben Jarvis-Frain
Master's Student

Thomas Jennewein
Faculty, Associate Professor

Admin Support:
Staff:
Research Associates:
Postdoc fellows:
PhD students:
Master's students:
Undergraduate Research Assistant:
Co-op:
Dave Jepson
Research Manager

Zhengfeng Ji
IQC Affiliate, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Max Jones
Master's Student

Andrew Jordan
Nanofabrication Technician
Supervisor: Jonathan Baugh
Tanmay Joshi
Master's student
Richard Joung
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Supervisor: Michal Bajcsy
Amolak Ratan Kalra
PhD Student
Lars Kamin
PhD Student

Connor Kapahi
PhD Student

Prem Nigam Kar
Long Term Visitor
Courtney Kates
CO-OP
Amisha Kaur
Multimedia and Web Assistant Co-op Student
Alexander Kazachek
Master's Student
Achim Kempf
IQC Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics
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:
Ali Mustafa Khatai
Master's Student
Timur Khayrullin
Co-Op Student
Soroush Khoubyarian
Master's Student
Bohdan Khromets
Research Assistant

Bohdan Khromets
PhD Student
Huck Kim
Undergraduate Research Assistant
John Kim
Master's students
Na Young Kim
Faculty, Associate Professor

Colleen Kissack
Cleanroom Certification and Inventory Specialist

Reza Kohandani
Postdoctoral Fellow
Sathursan Kokilathasan
Master's Student
Nikhil Kotibhaskar
PhD Student

Wayne Kozun
Chief Investment Officer, Forthlane Partners

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

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
Supervisor: Debbie Leung
Bharat Kuchhal
PhD Student
Supervisor: Christopher Wilson
Co-Supervisor: Michal Bajcsy
Srijita Kundu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Supervisors: Ashwin Nayak, Norbert Lutkenhaus, Shalev Ben-David
Katanya Kuntz
Research Associate

Kohdai Kuroiwa
PhD Student

Jan Kycia
IQC Associate, Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy

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.
Camille Lacroix
Master's Student

Raymond Laflamme
Faculty, Professor

Admin Support:
Research Assistant Professor:
Research Associate:
Postdoctoral fellows:
PhD students:
Master's students:
URA:
Andrew Lagno
Master's Student
Lok Kan (Kyle) Lai
Visiting Researcher
Owen Lailey
PhD Student
Supervisor: Dmitry Pushin
Olivier Lalonde
PhD Student
Keogan Larade
Co-op

Davis Last
Co-Op Student

Dejan Latkovic
Co-op student

Dejan Latkovic
Co-op student
Anthony (Tony) Lau
Master's student
Elizabeth Laura Janes
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Chin Lee
Research Finance Coordinator

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.
Isaac Lee
Master's students
Fabien Lefebvre
Master's Student
Anthony Leggett
Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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
Lukas Letuha
Research Associate
Debbie Leung
Faculty, Professor

Dr. Chi-Kwong Li
IQC Affiliate
Michael (Ze Yuan) Li
Master's Student
Qiang Li
IQC Affiliate
Yifan Li
Master’s Student, MQTech
Supervisor: Jonathan Baugh
Xander Linzel
URA
Tristan Lismer
Master's student
Charlie Liu
URA
Yinchen (Calvin) Liu
PhD Student

Zeyi Liu
Master's Student
William Fredrick Losin
Master's Student
Nicholas Low
Master's students
Pei Jiang Low
Postdoctoral Fellow

Dawei Lu
IQC Affiliate
Zewen Lu
Co-Op Student
Adrian Lupascu
Faculty, Associate Professor

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- Amber Wang
- Michele Roche on Secondament
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Norbert Lütkenhaus
Faculty, Executive Director

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- Amber Wang
- Michele Roche on secondament
- Jeannie Bairos for all Director's office business
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Zachary Lyu
URA

Steve MacLean
Associate Faculty
Benjamin MacLellan
PhD Student
Supervisor: Roger Melko
Shilpa Mahato
Master's Student
Ali Mahmoud
IQC Affiliate
Alex Maierean (Kirillova)
PhD Student

Shayan Majidy
PhD Student

David Makarczyk
URA
Sonell Malik
PhD Student
Zachary Mann
Master's Student
Aareyan Manzoor
PhD Student
Supervisor: Michael Brannan
Matteo Mariantoni
Faculty, Associate Professor

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Ryan Mark
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Emily Martin
Events & Operations Coordinator

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.
Eduardo Martin-Martinez
Department of Applied Math, Professor | IQC Associate

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:
Anastasiia Mashko
PhD Student
Supervisor Alexandre Cooper-Roy and David Cory
Kieran Mastel
PhD Student

Alex May
IQC Associate
Sarah McCarthy
Research Associate
Katie McDonnell
Postdoctoral Fellow

Joshua McPherson
Master’s Student, MQTech
Alexander Meiburg
Postdoctoral Fellow
Roger Melko
IQC Affiliate, Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo

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:
Ireneo James Membrere
Master's students
Supervisor: Eduardo Martin-Martinez
Alfred Menezes
IQC Affiliate, Professor, University of Waterloo
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).
Rahul Menon
Research Assistant
Ejaaz Merali
PhD Student
Supervisor Roger Melko
Zach Merino
PhD Student
Guo-Xing Miao
Faculty, Associate Professor

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- Reza Asadi
- Rabiul Islam
- Guofei (Phillip) Long
- He (Ricky) Yen
- Yu (Jerry) Shi
- Gabriel Vinicíus De Oliveira Silva
Visiting Researcher
Sarah Marie Mickelson
Finance & Administration Manager
Andres Miranda Sanchez
Master's students
Batul Mirza
MQTech
Supervisor: Kevin Resch
Alex Mitrovic
Precision Machinist, Transformative Quantum Technologies
Aryan Modgil
Co-op student
Supervisor: Crystal Senko
Shaeer Moeed
Master's student
Supervisor: Pierre-Nicholas Roy
Brian Moffat
Director, Quantum Space Program

Kimia Mohammadi
PhD Student

Tiasa Mondol
PhD Student
Chris Monroe
Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland
Henri Morin
PhD Student

Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein
Michele Mosca
Faculty, Professor

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Takudzwa Mudzongo
Digital Communications and Website Coordinator

Bill Munson
Research Associates
Ewan Murphy
Research Associate
Christine Muschik
Faculty, Associate Professor

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Marlyn Mwita
Co-op Student

Supervisor: Alan Jamison
Shlok Nahar
PhD Student

Shreyas Natarajan
Master's Student
Ashwin Nayak
Faculty, Professor

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Luke Neal
PhD Student

Nathan Nelson-Fitzpatrick
Director, Quantum-Nano Fabrication and Characterization Facility

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

Supervisor: David Cory
Xianfan Nie
Master's Student
Xianfan Nie
Master's student
Ibrahim Nsanzineza
Senior Superconducting Device Scientist

John Nugent
Laboratory Technologist

Sarah Odinotski
Master's Student
Sung Eun (Paul) Oh
PhD Student

Addison Okell
Master's students
Nicholas Olsen
Master's student
Supervisor: Eduardo Martin-Martinez
Dogu Ozyigit
Graduate Research Assistant
Pablo Palacios
PhD Student

Meg Panetta
IQC Visitor
Supervisor: Chris Wilson
Sebastian Parsons-Hall
Master's students
Abdolreza Pasharavesh
PhD Student
Tarun Patel
Postdoctoral Fellow

Vyom Patel
Master's Student
Supervisor: Hans De Sterck
Sakshee Patil
Master's student
Everett Patterson
PhD Student

Supervisor: Robert Mann
Vern Paulsen
IQC Associate, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Mathematics

Andrija Paurevic
Master's Student
Eva Pearson
URA
Mark Pecen
Long Term Visitor, Advisory Committee, CEO, Approach Infinity, Inc.

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
Yawen Peng
PhD Student
Matteo Pennacchietti
PhD Student

Kostyantyn Pichugin
Research Associate
Kayleigh Platz
Director, Communications and Strategic Initiatives

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.
Jose Polo Gomez
PhD Student
Supervisor: Eduardo Martin-Martinez
María Rosa Preciado Rivas
PhD Student
Supervisor: Robert Mann
Pritam Priyadarsi
PhD Student

Keya Purani
Co-op Student
Dmitry Pushin
Faculty, Associate Professor

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Jonathan Qualter
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Supervisor: Crystal Senko
Parinaz Rafati
Master's students
Parinaz Rafati
Master's students
Smita Rajan
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Supervisor: Jonathan Baugh
Anthony Ramsay
Computing Support Specialist

Armaan Rasheed
Co-op student
Nabeel Rasheed
URA
Carter Reid
URA
Carter Reid
Co-op Student
Michael Reimer
Faculty, Associate Professor

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He (Ricky) Ren
PhD Student

Yi Ren
PhD Student
Kevin Resch
Faculty, Professor

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Tales Rick Perche
PhD Student
Michele Roche (on secondment)
Research Finance Coordinator

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

Jose (Roberto) Romero
Electronics and Instrumentation Technologist, Health, Safety and Environment Coordinator

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

Paula Roser
Manager, Graduate and Postdoctoral Programs
Lucas Roy
Master's Student
Supervisor: Michael Reimer
Pierre-Nicholas Roy
IQC Affiliate, Professor and University Research Chair, University of Waterloo
Mahmood Sabooni
Research Associate
Himanshu Sahu
PhD Student
Shihan Sajeed
Visiting Researcher, IQC Affiliate

Rodello Salandanan
Senior Equipment Technologist

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
Iman Salehi
PhD Student
Supervisor: Dmitry Pushin
Fatemeh Fani Sani
Postdoctoral Fellow

Debankan Sannamoth
Master's Student

Hamza Sayed-Ali
Co-op URA
Luke Schaeffer
Faculty, Assistant Professor

Admin support: Chin Lee
Andres Schang
Master's Student
Justin Schrier
Master's Student
Matthew Schumacher
Associate Director, Finance

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

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

Crystal Senko
Faculty, Associate Professor

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François Sfigakis
Research Assistant Professor

Christian Sforza
Co-op Student
Raj Shah
Master's students
Ruhi Shah
Co-Op Student

Ahmed Shahin
Graduate Research Assistant
Nicki Shaw
Senior Facility Microscopist (QNFCF)

Yi Shen
IQC Affiliate
Kaylee Sherk
Master's students
Nachiket Sherlekar
Postdoctoral Fellow

Yu (Jerry) Shi
PhD Student

Zheng Shi
Research Associate

Supervisors:
Stephanie Simmons
IQC Affiliate
Namanish Singh
Master's student

Pulkit Sinha
PhD Student
Urbasi Sinha
IQC Affiliate, Professor, Raman Research Institute

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/
William Slofstra
Faculty, Associate Professor

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Ethan Smith
Undergraduate research assistant
Graeme Smith
Faculty, Associate Professor

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Mariia Sobchuk
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Mohammad Soltani
Postdoctoral Fellow
Rolando Somma
IQC Affiliate, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jiaqi Song
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Supervisor: Jonathan Baugh
Ken Speirs
Lab Technologist, RAC & RA2

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.
Michael Spinazze
PhD Student
Supervisor: Jonathan Baugh
Jonah Spodek
Master's Student
Sanchit Srivastava
PhD Student
Siobhan Stables
Managing Director

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.
Mikka Stasiuk
PhD Student
Supervisor: Alex May
Douglas Stebila
IQC Affiliate, Associate Professor Department of Combinatorics & Optimization Faculty of Mathematics University of Waterloo
Emma Stephenson
Undergraduate Research Assistant Co-op
Fred Sun
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Vidya Suresh
Graduate Research Assistant
Esha Swaroop
PhD Student

Sahand Tabatabaei
PhD Student

Ivar Taminiau
IQC Affiliate - Research Scientist

Ernest Y.-Z. Tan
Postdoctoral Fellow

Hawking (Xinghe) Tan
PhD Student

Rahul Tan
Co-op student
Disha Tandon
Co-op student
Gaurav Ashish Tathed
Master's Student
Daniel Tay
Postdoctoral Fellow
Adam Teixido-Bonfill
PhD Student
Yi Hong Teoh
PhD Student

Dhruv Thakkar
Co-op URA
Fiona Thompson
Master's Student
Lin Tian
Postdoctoral Fellow

Supervisor Michael Reimer
Adam Wei Tsen
Faculty, Associate Professor

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Devashish Tupkary
PhD Student
Kent Ueno
PhD Student

Dinesh Valluri
IQC Affiliate
Brad Van Kasteren
PhD Student

Supervisors: Michael Reimer
Michael Vasmer
IQC Associate - IQC/PI

Umesh Vazirani
Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Brinda Venkataramani
Master's student, MQTech
Supervisor: Kevin Resch
Sai Sreesh Venuturumilli
PhD Student
Nikolay Videnov
PhD Student

Sujatha Vijayakrishnan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Stéphane Vinet
PhD Student

Anthony Vogliano
PhD Student
Sasan Vosoogh-Grayli
Research Associate
Joel Wallman
IQC Associate

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:
Yidun Wan
IQC Affiliate
Amber Wang
Research Finance Coordinator

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
Sarah Wang
Research Finance Coordinator
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
Yunkai Wang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Zhiyao Wang
Master's students

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

Tarralee Weber
Research Project Accountant, Transformative Quantum Technologies

Gregor Weihs
IQC Associate

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
Mary Wells
Dean, Faculty of Engineering

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

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 |
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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 |
Christopher Wilson
Faculty, Professor

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Samuel Winnick
PhD Student
Supervisor: Michele Mosca
Charlotte Wipp
Co-op student

Benjamin Wong
Master's students
Peixue Wu
Postdoctoral Fellows
Kelly Wurtz
PhD Student

Supervisor: Eduardo Martin-Martinez
Christopher Wyenberg
Postdoctoral Fellow
Aaron Xayvongsa
Quantum Outreach and Education Research Assistant
Kaiduan Xie
Research Associate
Supervisor: Michele Mosca
Athena Xu
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Christopher Xu
PhD Student
Songmin Xu
PhD Candidate
Bowen Yang
Postdoctoral Fellow

Cindy Yang
PhD Student
HeeBong Yang
PhD Student

Jiayue Yang
PhD Student

Zhou Yangchen
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Supervisor: Christine Muschik
Lyvia Yanover
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Bera Yavuz
CO-OP
Huan Yi-Shen
Co-Op Student

Beni Yoshida
IQC Associate, Junior Faculty Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Xiang Wen Yu
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Henry Yuen
IQC Affiliate
Nadi Zaharieva
Long Term Visitors
Nadi Zaharieva
Visitor
Sascha Zakaib-Bernier
Master's students
Matheus Zambianco
PhD Student
Supervisor: Achim Kempf
Mohd Zeeshan
Postdoctoral Fellow

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.
Yujie Zhang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Chi Zhang
PhD Student
Jinglei Zhang
Research Associates

Wenxue Zhang
PhD Student

Supervisor Pierre-Nicholas Roy
Cheng Zheng
Master’s Student, MQTech
Laurent Zheng
Co-Op Student
Auda Zhu
PhD Student

Jennifer Zhu
PhD Student
Supervisor Michael Brannan