Five Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) faculty receive funding through Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s Discovery Research program.
A new startup spun out of research at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo is accelerating its push toward commercialization with $10.7 million in dilutive and non-dilutive funding and a public listing after launching just more than six months ago.
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 Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) welcomed Honourable David J. McGuinty, Canada’s Minister of National Defence, as part of a University of Waterloo visit where he emphasized direct funding to advance quantum technologies as part of a federal commitment for defence innovation.
Alex Maierean, IQC PhD student and CEO of Phantom Photonics, has received the 2026 Women in Defence and Security Scholarship and Canadian Global Affairs Institute Fellowship.
The Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo congratulates Drs. Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard on receiving the 2025 Turing Award for their key role in establishing the foundations of quantum information science and inventing quantum key distribution (QKD), a core area of research at IQC.
The Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) welcomes the National Research Council Canada (NRC) investment of more than $161 million over five years to advance Canada’s leadership in quantum technology for defence and security applications.
Angéline Lafleur, a current IQC PhD student and former QSYS participant, has been named one of 14 recipients of the Order of the White Rose scholarship, valued at $50,000.
A research group at IQC has secured $1 million to develop a proof of concept that would link two observation stations by sharing quantum information via drones, creating a sensing system with unprecedented resolution by distributing quantum entanglement.
Dr. José Polo-Gómez has won the American Physical Society’s (APS) 2026 Irwin Oppenheim Award for his research.