Congratulations to Professor Michele Mosca on his research grant announced today through the NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) program.
The University of Waterloo media release says the grants are designed to enable leading scientists to mentor and train promising young researchers in quantum information science. Professors David Cory and Michele Mosca, both from the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), received grants worth $1.65 million each to pursue unique training programs in cutting-edge quantum research.
Mosca's project, "Building a Workforce for the Cryptographic Infrastructure of the 21st Century" will bring together researchers, organizations and industry to prepare the new generation of researchers to pioneer a new global infrastructure for ultra-secure cryptography in the quantum era.
According to Mosca, “future technologies, such as quantum computers, will be powerful enough to break codes we currently rely on to protect private data, so we must harness and deploy new cryptographic tools that will be secure in a quantum world."