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Promoting science literacy is a passion for Dr. Rajibul Islam, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo. In 2014, Islam, along with friends from the science community, launched Bigyan, a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to making science accessible in Bengali.

Researchers at Transformative Quantum Technologies at the University of Waterloo are accelerating towards fully electrical spintronics for applications in data storage and medical imaging.

Open Quantum Design runs a new model for how quantum research is shared — opening doors for the next generation of scientists and entrepreneurs.

Phantom Photonics’ quantum remote sensing technology offers precision for industries operating in extreme environments

IQC celebrates our community's many accomplishments in research, training, outreach and commercialization in 2025. 

Researchers at IQC have developed a new quantum computing approach that brings science closer to simulating the early universe.

Every year since 2012, IQC has brought together some of the brightest young researchers in quantum information science for the week-long Quantum Innovators (QI) workshop. 

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.

How Waterloo became a global hub for quantum science and technology