Faculty, Professor
- Email: wcleung@uwaterloo.ca
- Office: QNC 3313
- Website: http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~wcleung/
- Admin Support: Chin Lee
Debbie Leung joined the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo in 2005. Before that, she was a Tolman postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Quantum Information, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), after spending four months at the Workshop on Quantum Computation, September-December 2002, at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, and a two-year stay at the Physics of Information group at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, 2000-2002. After a BSc in Phys/Math from Caltech in 1995, she did a PhD in Physics at Stanford under the supervision of Professor Yoshihisa Yamamoto and Professor Isaac Chuang.
Current projects and research expertise
- Quantum cryptography
- Quantum communications
- Measurement-based quantum computation
- Fault-tolerant quantum computation and error correction
Teaching affiliations
- Undergraduate courses for the Faculty of Math and the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, and graduate courses for the Institute for Quantum Computing
Degrees
- PhD in Physics, Stanford University, 2000
- BSc in Physics and Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, 1995
Awards & honours
- Tier II Canada Research Chair in Quantum Communications, 2005–2015
- Richard C. Tolman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theoretical Physics, Caltech, 2002-2005
- Croucher Foundation Fellowship, 2002-2005
Major positions
Title | Location | When | |
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Professor | Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo | 2015-present | |
University Research Chair |
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2015-2022 | |
Associate Professor | Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo | 2010-2015 | |
Assistant Professor | Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo | 2005-2010 | |
Faculty Member | Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo | 2005-present | |
Quantum Information Processing Program member | Canadian Institute For Advanced Research (CIFAR) | 2005-present | |
Affiliate Member | Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics | 2005-present |