Debbie Leung, University Research Chair at the Institute for Quantum Computing & Department of Combinatorics and Optimization; Affiliate Faculty member, Perimeter Institute
Debbie
Leung
works
on
the
theory
of
quantum
communications
and
other
information
theoretic
consequences
of
quantum
mechanics.
She
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
postdoc
at
Caltech
(Tolman
fellowship
2002-2005),
the
Mathematical
Sciences
Research
Institute,
Berkeley
(2002),
and
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.
