The Institute for Quantum Computing would like to welcome all of our new faculty and students. Two new faculty members, John Watrous and Kevin Resch have joined the Institute this fall.
John Watrous describes his research as focusing on â..the theory of quantum information and its applications and implications with respect to complexity theory, cryptography, and algorithm design. Specific topics that I am interested in include quantum interactive proof systems, quantum algorithms for group theoretic problems , quantum analogues of random walks and Markov chains, and the theory of entanglement.
Funding for his work has been provided by NSERC, and he is a scholar with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
Watrous comes to IQC from the University of Calgary, where he held appointments as assistant and associate professor. He was awarded a PhD (1998) and MSc by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and BSc by state University of New York at Stony Brook.
Kevin Resch is an experimentalist and his research focuses on quantum communication and computation, optical sources of entanglement, measurement and quantum state tomography, quantum interference and nonlinear optics.
Kevin Resch received his B.Sc. (Hon.) degree in Chemical Physics from Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, in 1997. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1998 and 2002 respectively. His Masters and Doctoral theses were based on experimental quantum optics and completed under the supervision of Aephraim Steinberg.
Subsequently, Kevin held an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship with Anton Zeilinger's group at the University of Vienna, Austria and a Research Fellow position with Andrew White's Quantum Technology Laboratory at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.