Debbie Leung

• 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