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Michal Bajcsy

Faculty, Associate Professor

Michal Bajcsy is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Quantum Computing and the Electrical and Engineering department, where he joined as assistant professor in 2014.

Bajcsy received both his PhD in Applied Physics and his Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Raffi Budakian

Faculty, Professor - Currently on Sabbatical

After earning his bachelor’s, master’s and PhD degrees in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, Raffi Budakian was a visiting scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Centre.

Richard Cleve

Faculty, Professor

Research expertise

  • Quantum information theory
  • Structure of quantum algorithms
  • Quantum communication complexity theory

Alexandre Cooper-Roy

Adjunct Faculty, Research Associate, Senior Technical Lead, Quantum Simulation, Transformative Quantum Technologies

Supervisor: David Cory

David Cory

Faculty, Professor, Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureate

David Cory is a physical chemist working to develop quantum devices for sensing and computation.  Earlier sensors have found applications in fields as varied as cancer diagnostics, materials processing for tires, improved sensitivity for oil exploration, and a sensor for dark matter searches.  Two startups recently spun out of the lab develop quantum sensors with medical, biochemical and materials applications.

Joseph Emerson

Faculty, Associate Professor

Research expertise

  • Error diagnosis and suppression
  • Validation of circuit performance in quantum computers
  • Foundations of quantum theory 

David Gosset

Faculty, Associate Professor

Research expertise

  • Quantum algorithms
  • Classical simulation of quantum computation
  • Computational complexity of quantum many-body systems

Bradley Hauer

Faculty, Assistant Professor

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.

Na Young Kim

Faculty, Associate Professor

Na Young Kim leads Quantum Innovation (QuIN) laboratory, aiming to build large-scale quantum processors based on novel materials and advanced technologies.

Raymond Laflamme

Faculty, Professor

Research expertise

  • Quantum control
  • Quantum error correction for quantum computing and cryptography
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
  • Quantum Information Processing

Debbie Leung

Faculty, Professor

Research expertise

  • Quantum cryptography
  • Quantum communications
  • Measurement-based quantum computation
  • Fault-tolerant quantum computation and error correction

Matteo Mariantoni

Faculty, Associate Professor

Matteo Mariantoni received a Master of Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. After completing his doctorate at both the Walther-Meissner-Institute for Low Temperature Research and the Technical University of Munich in 2009, Mariantoni was awarded the Elings Prize Fellowship in Science of the California NanoSystem Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara. While in Santa Barbara, his implementation of a quantum memory and processor on a single chip using a “quantum von Neumann architecture” was ranked as one of the top 10 breakthroughs for 2011 by Physics World.

Guo-Xing Miao

Faculty, Associate Professor

Professor Miao has been an associate professor at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo since July, 2023. He first joined IQC in May of 2011 as a Research Assistant Professor.

Prior to joining IQC, he received his PhD from Brown University in 2006, and then went on to roles as a postdoctoral associate and research scientist at the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Michele Mosca

Faculty, Professor

Michele Mosca obtained a BMath at Waterloo in 1995 and was recipient of the Mathematics Faculty Alumni Gold Medal. He went to Wolfson College, University of Oxford, on a Commonwealth Scholarship, and received an MSc in Mathematics and the Foundations of Computer Science (with Distinction) in 1996. He continued at Oxford, obtaining a DPhil in quantum computer algorithms in 1999 while holding the Robin Gandy Junior Research Fellowship.

Christine Muschik

Faculty, Associate Professor

Research expertise

  • Quantum networks
  • Quantum sensing
  • Quantum simulations
  • High-energy physics simulation with quantum computers

Ashwin Nayak

Faculty, Professor

Research expertise

  • Quantum computation and quantum information
  • Computational complexity
  • Design and analysis of algorithms

Dmitry Pushin

Faculty, Associate Professor

Dmitry Pushin has formal training in experimental neutron physics and interferometry, quantum information, and condensed matter physics.

Kazi Rajibul Islam

Faculty, Associate Professor

Research expertise

  • Experimental quantum many-body physics
  • Quantum computation with trapped ions
  • Use of holography and high resolution microscopy to manipulate many-body systems

Michael Reimer

Faculty, Associate Professor

Michael Reimer joined the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in 2015.

Luke Schaeffer

Faculty, Assistant Professor

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.

Crystal Senko

Faculty, Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair

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.

William Slofstra

Faculty, Associate Professor

Research expertise

  • Lie theory and algebraic combinatorics
  • Representation theory in quantum information
  • Non-local games
  • Geometry of entanglement

Graeme Smith

Faculty, Associate Professor

Research expertise

  • Quantum Shannon Theory
  • Quantum Networks
  • Mathematical Physics
  • Physics of Information

Adam Wei Tsen

Assistant Professor

Professor Adam Wei Tsen joined the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and the Department of Chemistry as an assistant professor in 2016.

After receiving a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, as well as a BS in Engineering Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, he completed his PhD in Applied Physics at Cornell University under the guidance of Jiwoong Park.

Umesh Vazirani

Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Umesh Vazirani is a professor in the Computer Science Division of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.