John Watrous

Email: john.watrous@uwaterloo.ca
Office: QNC 4113
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John Watrous received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1998. After a one year postdoctoral fellowship at the Laboratoire d'Informatique Théorique et Quantique at the Université de Montréal he joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary as a faculty member. Watrous was IQC Faculty and Professor in University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Mathematics, from 2006 to 2021. After serving as IQC's Interim Executive Director in 2021, he spent three years at IBM as Technical Director for Quantum Education.

Degrees

• PhD in Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998
• MS in Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995
• BS in Computer Science and Mathematics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1992

Awards & honours

• University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics Award for Distinction in Teaching, 2016
• Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
• David R. Cheriton Faculty Fellow, 2009–2012
• Affiliate Member, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
• Tier II Canada Research Chair in Quantum Computing, 2002–2006

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