Student award recipients

We are proud to list the many award and scholarship recipients at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC). Find the recipients of:

• NSERC Awards
  • Vanier
  • Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral
  • Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship - Masters
  • Postgraduate Scholarship - Doctoral 
  • Postgraduate Scholarship - Masters
  • Julie Payette Scholarship
  • Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship
• Government of Ontario Awards
  • Ontario Trillium Scholarship
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship
  • Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology
• American Physical Society
  • Public Outreach and Informing the Public Grant
• CAP-OSAF
• Fonds de Recherche du Quebec
• Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis Fellowship
• University of Waterloo Awards
  • Governor General's Gold Medal
  • W.B. Pearson Medal (PhD)
  • Dean of Science Award (MCs)
  • Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies
  • David R. Cheriton Graduate Scholarship
  • Provost Graduate Scholarship
  • Provost Doctoral Entrance Award for Women
  • Provost Master's Entrance Award for Women
  • J. Alan George Student Leadership Award
• IQC Awards
  • IQC Achievement Award
  • IQC David Johnston Award for Scientific Outreach
  • IQC Leadership Award for Research Community Engagement
  • Raymond Laflamme and Janice Gregson Graduate Scholarship for Women in Quantum Information Science
  • IQC Entrance Award
  • Bell Family Fund

NSERC awards

Vanier

• Jack deGooyer, 2024
• Caroline de Lima Vargas Simões, 2024
• Sarah Odinotski, 2024
• Benjamin MacLellan, 2022
• Tales Rick Perche, 2022
• Shayan Majidy, 2021
• Andrew Cameron, 2019
• David Schmid, 2018
• Daniel Grimmer, 2017
• Jean-Philippe MacLean, 2015
• Tomas Jochym-O'Connor, 2014
• Kent Fisher, 2012
• Deny Hamel, 2010
• Gina Passante, 2009

Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral

• Ala Shayeghi, 2019
• Kevin Piche, 2019
• Ramy Tannous, 2019
• Stefanie Beale, 2019
• TC Fraser, 2019
• Abel Prieto Molina, 2018
• Laura Henderson, 2017
• Jason LeGrow, 2016
• Jason Pye, 2015
• Sean Walker, 2015
• Matthew Amy, 2015
• Jeff Salvail, 2015
• Olivia Di Matteo, 2015
• Michael Mazurek, 2015
• Chunhao Wang, 2015
• John Donohue, 2014
• Kyle Willick, 2014
• Mirmojtaba Gharibi, 2013
• Chris Pugh, 2013
• Matthew Graydon, 2011
• Evan Meyer-Scott, 2011
• Stacey Jeffery, 2010
• Sevag Gharibian, 2010
• Farzad Qassemi-Maloomeh, 2010
• Matthew McKague, 2007
• Easwar Magesan, 2008
• Douglas Stebila, 2006
• Colm Ryan, 2005

Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master's

• Matteo Pennacchietti, 2021
• Kieran Mastel, 2021
• Jack DeGooyer, 2021
• Twesh Upadhyaya, 2020
• Ali Binai-Motlagh, 2020
• Michael Grabowecky, 2020
• Turner Garrow, 2020
• Joanna Krynski, 2020
• Alexander Kerzner, 2019
• Colin Lee, 2019
• Stephen Harrigan, 2019
• Emma McKay, 2018
• Joshua Skanes-Norman, 2018
• Andrew Cameron, 2017
• Patrick Daley, 2017
• Junan Lin, 2017
• Petar Simidzija, 2017
• Ramy Tannous, 2017
• Mats Powlowski, 2017
• Ray Liu, 2017
• Stefanie Beale, 2016
• Kristine Boone, 2016
• Honghao Fu, 2015
• Sumeet Khatri, 2014
• Hillary Dawkins, 2014
• David Layden, 2014
• Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, 2013
• Olivia Di Matteo, 2013
• William Stacey, 2013
• Sean Walker, 2013
• Megan Agnew, 2012
• Young Han, 2012
• Erika Janitz, 2012
• Michael Mazurek, 2012
• Denis-Alexandre Trottier, 2012
• Kyle Willick, 2012
• Nikolay Gigov, 2011
• Chris Pugh, 2011
• Joseph Rebstock, 2011
• Kent Fisher, 2010
• Luke Govia, 2010
• Stacey Jeffery, 2010
• Tomas Jochym-O'Connor, 2010
• Daniel (Ben) Criger, 2009
• Jonathan Lavoie, 2009
• Pierre-Luc Dallaire-Demers, 2009
• Robin Kothari, 2009
• Evan Meyer-Scott, 2009
• Deny Hamel, 2008
• Chris Ferrie, 2007
• Easwar Magesan, 2007
• Ryan Morris, 2007
• Brendan Osberg, 2007
• Gina Passante, 2007
• Jamie Smith, 2007
• Adam Hubbard, 2006
• Cozmin Ududec, 2006
• Paul Dickinson, 2005
• Matthew McKague, 2004
• Jamie Batuwantudawe, 2003
• Martin Laforest, 2003

Postgraduate Scholarship - Doctoral

• Connor Kapahi, 2021
• Adina Goldberg, 2020
• Jack Davis, 2020
• Junan Lin, 2020
• Kristine Boone, 2018
• Ala Shayeghi, 2018
• Arthur Mehta, 2017
• Christopher Chamberland, 2017
• Guillaume Verdon-Akzam, 2017
• Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, 2016
• Aimee Gunther, 2016
• Greg Holloway, 2014
• Robin Kothari, 2011
• Felix Motzoi, 2010
• Jamie Sikora, 2009
• Jamie Smith, 2009
• Chris Erven, 2008
• Chris Ferrie, 2008
• Gus Gutoski, 2006
• Osama Moussa, 2006
• William Rosgen, 2006
• Jean Christian Boileau, 2005
• Marcus Silva, 2005
• Martin Laforest, 2005
• Donny Cheung, 2004
• Niel de Beaudrap, 2004 (B)
• Phillip Kaye, 2002 (B)
• David Poulin, 2002 (B)

Postgraduate Scholarship - Master's

• Deny Hamel, 2009
• Ryan Morris, 2008
• Gina Passante, 2008
• Jamie Smith, 2008
• David Ostapchuk, 2007
• Cozmin Ududec, 2007
• David Ostapchuk, 2006
• Matthew McKague, 2005
• Jamie Batuwantudawe, 2004
• Alexander Gutfraind, 2004
• Martin Laforest, 2004
• Colm Ryan, 2003 (A)
• Jean Christian Boileau, 2002 (A)
• Michael Brown, 2002 (A)
• Donny Cheung, 2001 (A)
• David Poulin, 2002 (A)
• Lawrence Ioannou, 2000 (A)

Julie Payette Scholarship

• Jean-Philippe MacLean, 2013

Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship

• Douglas Stebila, 2004

Government of Ontario awards

Ontario Trillium Scholarship

• Nadine Stritzelberger, 2017
• Tyler Nighswander, 2013
• Zak Webb, 2011

Ontario Graduate Scholarship

• Stephen Harrigan, 2022
• Ben Lovitz, 2021
• Ali Binai-Motlagh, 2021
• Soumik Ghosh, 2020
• Adina Goldberg, 2019
• Shayan Majidy, 2019
• Jimmy Hung, 2019
• Ryan Ferguson, 2019
• Michael Grabowecky, 2019
• Joshua Skanes-Norman, 2019
• Joshua Ruebeck, 2018
• Jason Pye, 2018
• Petar Simidzija, 2018
• Shima Bab Hadiashar, 2017
• Kyle Willick, 2017
• Stefanie Beale, 2017
• Dmitri Iouchtchenko, 2017
• Christopher Pugh, 2016
• Jeremy Flannery, 2016
• Samuel Harris, 2016
• Eduardo Barrera Ramirez, 2016
• Arthur Mehta, 2016
• Taylor Hornby, 2016
• Kristine Boone, 2015
• Hillary Dawkins, 2015
• Kent Fisher, 2015
• Sumeet Khatri, 2015
• David Layden, 2015
• Christian Mastromattei, 2015 
• Daniel Puzzuoli, 2015
• Honghao Fu, 2014
• Matthew Graydon, 2014
• Aimee Gunther, 2014
• Xingliang (David) Lou, 2014
• Sean Walker, 2014
• Chunhao Wang, 2014
• Deny Hamel, 2013
• Catherine Holloway, 2013
• Greg Holloway, 2013
• David Luong, 2013
• Michael Mazurek, 2013
• Joshua Young, 2013
• Daniel (Ben) Criger, 2012
• Tomas Jochym-O'Connor, 2012
• Alexandre Laplante, 2012
• Jonathan Lavoie, 2012
• Chris Pugh, 2012
• Jean Philippe Bourgoin, 2011
• Chunqing Deng, 2012
• Kent Fisher, 2011
• Luke Govia, 2011
• Victor Veitch, 2011
• Fatin Haque, 2010
• Nathan Killoran, 2010
• Evan Meyer-Scott, 2010
• Thomas McConkey, 2009
• Kurt Schreiter, 2009
• Hamid Mohebbi, 2008
• Brendan Osberg, 2008
• Cozmin Ududec, 2008
• ZhiZhong Yan, 2007
• Niel de Beaudrap , 2006
• Jamie Sikora, 2005
• Jean Christian Boileau, 2004
• D.L. Yonge-Mallo, 2004 
• Osama Moussa, 2004
• Timothy Reid, 2003

Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology

• Stephen Harrigan, 2021
• Dmitri Iouchtchenko, 2020
• Jason LeGrow, 2019
• Patrick Daley, 2018
• Matthew Alexander, 2017
• Kristine Boone, 2017
• Daniel Puzzuoli, 2017
• Ala Shayeghi, 2017
• Christopher Chamberland, 2016
• Matthew Brown, 2015
• Jihyun Park, 2014
• Megan Agnew, 2013
• John Donohue, 2012
• Agnes Ferenczi, 2012
• Alexandre Laplante, 2012 
• Yuval Sanders, 2012

Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology

• Thomas McConkey, 2011
• David Pitkanen, 2011
• Peter Groszkowski, 2011
• Chunqing Deng, 2011
• Felix Motzoi, 2010
• D.L. Yonge-Mallo, 2007
• Colm Ryan, 2007
• Jamie Sikora, 2007
• Sevag Gharibian, 2006
• ZhiZhong Yan, 2006
• Marcus Silva, 2005
• D.L. Yonge-Mallo, 2003 

American Physical Society (APS)

Public Outreach and Informing the Public Grant

• Aimee Gunther, 2015

Canadian Association of Physicists - Optical Society Foundation (CAP-OSAF)

Boris P. Stoicheff Memorial Scholarship

• Aimee Gunther, 2018

• Christopher Pugh, 2016

Fonds de Recherche du Quebec - Nature et Technologie

• Martin Laforest, 2009

Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis Fellowship

• Xingyu Zhou, 2021
• Fangzhou Yin, 2021
• Jose Polo Gomez, 2021
• Bruno de Souza Leao Torres, 2020
• John Bostanci, 2020
• Jie Lin, 2019
• Kohdai Kuroiwa, 2019
• Bowen Yang, 2019
• Maria Maristany, 2018
• Erickson Tjoa, 2018
• Lin Li, 2017
• David Schmid, 2017
• Meenu Kumari, 2017
• Youn-Seok Lee, 2017
• Emma Bergeron, 2016
• Nicholas Funai, 2016
• Morgan Mastrovich, 2016
• Yongchao Tang, 2016
• Nayeli Azucena Rodrigues Briones, 2016
• Sumit Sijher, 2016
• Maria Kieferova, 2014
• Hammam Qassim, 2014
• Li Liu, 2013
• Sarah Kaiser, 2012
• Shitikanth Kashyap, 2012
• Juan Miguel Arrazola, 2011
• Joshua Geller, 2011
• Adam Paetznick, 2011
• Antonio Scotland, 2011
• Abel Molina Prieto, 2010
• Sarvagya Upadhyay, 2010
• Ansis Rosmanis, 2010
• Amin Eftekharian, 2009
• Iman Marvian, 2008
• Farzad Qassemi-Maloomeh, 2008
• Devon Biggerstaff, 2007
• Chandrashekar Madaiah, 2007
• Yingkai Ouyang, 2007
• Behnood Ghamsari, 2006
• Lana Sheridan, 2006
• Casey Myers, 2006

University of Waterloo awards

Governor General's Gold Medal

• Samuel Jaques, 2019
• Kent Fisher, 2013

W.B. Pearson Medal (Doctoral Thesis)

• Jie Lin, 2022
• Maria Kieferova, 2020
• Olivia Di Matteo, 2019
• Kent Fisher, 2016
• Jonathan Lavoie, 2013

Dean of Science Award (Master's Thesis)

• Kimia Mohammadi, 2022
• Ryan Ferguson, 2021
• Patrick Daley, 2020
• Sainath Motlakunta, 2018
• Allison Sachs, 2017
• Nayeli Azucena Rodriguez Briones, 2015
• Michael Mazurek, 2013
• Kent Fisher, 2013

Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies

• Nayeli Azucena Rodriguez Briones, 2016
• Jonathan Lavoie, 2013
• Kent Fisher, 2013

David R. Cheriton Graduate Scholarship

• Jesse Elliott, 2021
• Abhishek Anand, 2021
• Tony Lau, 2020
• Colin Lee, 2020
• John Bostanci, 2020
• Chunhao Wang, 2017
• Abel Molina Prieto, 2016 
• Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy, 2016
• Taylor Hornby, 2016
• Li Liu, 2016
• Alessandro Cosentino, 2014
• Li Liu, 2013
• Tyler Nighswander, 2013
• Young Han, 2012
• Vincent Russo, 2012
• Matthew Amy, 2011
• Stacey Jeffery, 2011
• Robin Kothari, 2011
• Ansis Rosmanis, 2011
• Abel Molina Prieto, 2010
• Sevag Gharibian, 2009
• Sarvagya Upadhyay, 2009
• Gus Gutoski, 2008

Provost Graduate Scholarship

• Laura Henderson, 2016
• Jeremy Bejanin, 2013

Provost Doctoral Entrance Award for Women

• Jennifer Zhu, 2021
• Sonell Malik, 2021
• Cristina Rodriguez, 2021
• Adina Goldberg, 2019
• Maria Papageorgiou, 2019
• Emma Bergeron, 2019
• Stefanie Beale, 2018
• Allison Sachs, 2017
• Nadine Stritzelberger, 2017
• Shima Bab Hadiashar, 2016
• Nayeli Azucena Rodriguez Briones, 2016 
• Jennifer Katherine Fernick, 2015
• Anqi Huang, 2014
• Maria Kieferova, 2015
• Lin Li, 2015
• Carolyn Earnest, 2013
• Marie Barnhill, 2013
• Paulina Corona Ugalde, 2012
• Maryam Mirkamali, 2012
• Elena Anismova, 2012
• Katja Ried, 2012
• Naime Ghafarian, 2012
• Razieh Annabestani, 2010
• Laura Mancinska, 2010
• Gina Passante, 2007

Provost Master's Entrance Award for Women

• Aimee Gunther, 2014

J. Alan George Student Leadership Award

• Aimee Gunther, 2014
• Gina Passante, 2008

IQC Awards

IQC Achievement Award

• Bowen Yang, 2022
• Shayan Majidy, 2022
• Xi Dai, 2022
• Gilbert Shih, 2021
• Michal Kononenko, 2020
• Maria Kieferova, 2019
• Christopher Chamberland, 2018
• Dusan Sarenac, 2018
• Chris Pugh, 2017
• Mike Mazurek, 2017
• Shihan Sajeed, 2017
• Kent Fisher, 2016
• Hillary Dawkins, 2015
• Katja Reid, 2015
• Juan Miguel Arrazola, 2015
• John Donohue, 2015
• Thomas Jochym-O'Connor, 2014
• Robin Kothari, 2014
• Vadym Kliuchnikov, 2014
• Greg Holloway, 2013
• Ansis Rosmanis, 2013
• Laura Mancinska, 2013
• Deny Hamel, 2013
• Jonathan Lavoie, 2012
• Sevag Gharibian, 2012
• Easwar Magesan, 2011
• Maris Ozols, 2011
• Evan Meyer-Scott, 2010
• Felix Motzoi, 2010
• Farzad Qassemi-Maloomeh, 2010
• Sarvagya Upadhyay, 2010

IQC David Johnston Award for Scientific Outreach

• Stephen Harrigan, 2023
• Sarah (Meng) Li, 2023
• Alev Orfi, 2023
• Pablo Palacios-Avila, 2022
• Andrew Cameron, 2021
• Connor Kapahi, 2021
• Emma (Annelise) Bergeron, 2020
• Kristine Boone, 2019
• Ramy Tannous, 2019
• Shayan Majidy, 2018
• Jeremy Flannery, 2018
• Jean-Philippe MacLean, 2016
• Darryl Hoving, 2016
• Juan Miguel Arrazola, 2015
• Carolyn Earnest, 2015
• Sarah Kaiser, 2015
• John Donohue, 2014
• Aimee Gunther, 2014
• Corey Rae McRae, 2014
• Catherine Holloway, 2013
• Chris Pugh, 2013
• Evan Meyer-Scott, 2012
• Farzad Qassemi-Maloomeh, 2012
• Jamie Sikora, 2012
• Chris Erven, 2011
• Jean-Luc Orgiazzi, 2011
• Gina Passante, 2011

IQC Leadership Award for Research Community Engagement

• Xi Dai, 2021

Raymond Laflamme and Janice Gregson Graduate Scholarship for Women in Quantum Information Science

• Megan Byres, 2022
• Olivia Woodman, 2021
• Cindy Yang, 2020

IQC Entrance Award

• Nicholas Zutt, 2021
• Sonell Malik, 2021
• Stephane Vinet, 2021
• Benjamin MacLellan, 2021
• Jack DeGooyer, 2021
• Matteo Pennacchietti, 2020
• Colin Lee, 2019
• Turner Garrow, 2019
• Kent Ueno, 2019
• Twesh Upadhyaya, 2019
• Jimmy Hung, 2018
• Sheng-Xiang Lin, 2018
• Andrew Cameron, 2017
• Petar Simidzija, 2017
• Simon Daley, 2016
• Nicholas Manor, 2016
• Guillaume Verdon-Akzam, 2016
• Nayeli Azucena Rodriguez Briones, 2016
• Clifford Plesha, 2016
• Kristine Boone, 2015
• Jennifer Katherine Fernick, 2015
• Eduardo Barrera Ramirez, 2015
• Brandon Buonacorsi, 2015
• Benjamin Lovitz, 2015
• Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy, 2015
• Hyeran Kong, 2015
• Vadiraj Ananthapadmanabha Rao, 2015
• Jeff Salvail, 2015
• Hillary Dawkins, 2014
• Daniel Puzzuoli, 2014
• Honghao Fu, 2014
• Sumeet Khatri, 2014
• Vinay Iyer, 2014
• Kyle Willick, 2014
• Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, 2014
• Olivia Di Matteo, 2013
• Darryl Hoving, 2013
• Jean-Philippe Maclean, 2013
• Tyler Nighswander, 2013
• John Schanck, 2013
• John Rinehart, 2013
• Megan Agnew, 2012
• Maryam Mirkamali, 2012
• Vincent Russo, 2012
• Kyle Willick, 2012
• Holger Haas, 2011
• Matthew Graydon, 2011
• Chris Pugh, 2011
• Denis-Alexandre Trottier, 2011
• Nikolay Gigov, 2011
• Chris Wood, 2011
• Kent Fisher, 2010
• Luke Govia, 2010
• Tomas Jochym-O’Connor, 2010