Luke Schaeffer
The Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) is excited to welcome back Luke Schaeffer as Assistant Professor this September, with the Cheriton School of Computer Science as his home department.
The Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) is excited to welcome back Luke Schaeffer as Assistant Professor this September, with the Cheriton School of Computer Science as his home department.
Bradley Hauer focuses on cavity optomechanical systems and superconducting circuits and their applications in metrology, quantum information and non-classical state preparation. His work straddles theoretical and applied research, from ideation and designing devices through to their fabrication and analysis.
Prior to joining IQC and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2024, he was an NSERC post-doctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder. Hauer earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD in physics from the University of Alberta. During his PhD work, he studied low-temperature silicon optomechanics.
Graeme Smith researches quantum information theory and is working to understand the fundamental limits of information storage, transmission, and processing. Smith studies these questions with the tools of quantum Shannon theory. He has more recently developed an interest in quantum metrology.
Smith is interested in understanding the fundamental aspects of quantum theory, and has made contributions to the mathematical foundations of the field.
Prior to joining IQC and the Department of Applied Mathematics in 2023, he was a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and a fellow of JILA, a joint institute of University Colorado Boulder and NIST. Prior to academia, Smith worked as a research staff member at IBM for six years. He was a postdoctoral fellow at both IBM and the University of Bristol, and received his PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 2006.
Dulwich Quantum Computing Quantum Party Pooper Award, 2023
National Science Foundation Career Award, 2017
Title | Location | When |
Associate Professor |
Institute for Quantum Computing |
2023 - present |
Assistant then Associate Professor of Physics |
University of Colorado Boulder |
2016 – 2023 |
Research Staff Member |
IBM |
2010 – 2016 |
Postdoctoral Fellow |
IBM |
2007 – 2010 |
Postdoctoral Fellow |
University of Bristol |
2006 – 2007 |
Crystal Senko joined the Institute for Quantum Computing in November 2016 as Assistant Professor with the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Faculty of Science at the University of Waterloo.
Christine Muschik joined the Institute for Quantum Computing November 1, 2017 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
David Gosset joined the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) as an Associate Professor in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo on August 1, 2018.