IQC faculty secure more than $1.8 million in federal funding for quantum research
Five faculty from the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo have received $1.8 million in funding through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Alliance Quantum grants program.
The funding goes to a wide variety of quantum sensing and quantum computing simulation research projects.
NSERC Alliance Quantum supplements
Dr. Bradley Hauer, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
$448,000
Next-generation technology to access new regimes of quantum sensing.
Dr. Michael Reimer, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
$450,000
Portable semiconductor nanowire quantum sensors with enhanced efficiency and timing resolution.
Dr. Jonathan Baugh, Professor, Department of Chemistry
$450,000
Next-generation photonic source to enable quantum remote sensing and communications.
Dr. Adrian Lupascu, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
$450,000
Superconducting levitation in the quantum regime — a platform for quantum science and technology.
G7 Countries Alliance International Catalyst Quantum grants
Dr. Kazi Rajibul Islam, Professor, Physics and Astronomy
$25,000
Simulating high energy physics models with a trapped ion quantum simulator.
IQC researchers’ expertise spans from theory to experiments and beyond. They lead and contribute to major national and international initiatives that accelerate the development of quantum technologies and expand Canada’s global leadership in the field.