Federal funding adds fuel to theoretical and applied quantum research
Five faculty from the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo have received grants totalling more than $300,000 through Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s Discovery Grants program.
The grants will help fund the theoretical and applied research of professors in Faculties of Engineering, Science and Mathematics.
Dr. Bradley Hauer, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
$149,945
Millimeter-wave infrastructure supporting next-generation quantum sensors
(Co-applicants are Drs. Adrian Lupascu, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Christopher Wilson.)
Dr. David Gosset, Professor, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization
$53,000
Quantum advantage, classical simulation, and complexity
Dr. Adam Wei Tsen, Professor, Department of Chemistry
$49,000
Visualization and Control of Moiré Quantum Matter
Dr. Christopher Wilson, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
$49,000
Quantum Microwaves for Advanced Sensing and Simulation
The funding awarded to IQC faculty is part of more than $7.1 million in NSERC funding distributed to over 100 University of Waterloo researchers across multiple disciplines. Read more on Waterloo News.