Team Members

Notes: *indicates a "core investigator"

Project Leader: Barry Sanders*
Professor, Physics and Astronomy
University of Calgary
Email: sandersb@ucalgary.ca
Expertise: quantum optics, quantum cryptography

Andrew Childs*
Assistant Professor, Combinatorics and Optimization
University of Waterloo
Email: amchilds@uwaterloo.ca
Expertise: quantum computation, information theory and algorithms

Richard Cleve*
Professor, Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Email: cleve@cs.uwaterloo.ca
Expertise: quantum algorithms and complexity, communication complexity

Peter Høyer*
Associate Professor, Computer Science
University of Calgary
Email: hoyer@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Expertise: quantum algorithms and complexity theory

Raymond Laflamme
Professor, Physics and Astronomy
University of Waterloo
Email: laflamme@iqc.ca
Expertise: quantum error-correction, physical implementations of quantum computations

Michele Mosca*
Associate Professor, Combinatorics and Optimization
University of Waterloo
Email: mmosca@iqc.ca
Expertise: quantum algorithms and complexity theory

Ashwin Nayak*
Assistant Professor, Combinatorics and Optimization
University of Waterloo
Email: anayak@math.uwaterloo.ca
Expertise: quantum algorithms and complexity theory

David Poulin*
Assistant Professor, Physics (August 2008)
University of Sherbrooke
Email: David.Poulin@USherbrooke.ca
Expertise: quantum graphical models

Robert Raussendorf*
Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy
University of British Columbia
Email: raussen@phas.ubc.ca
Expertise: quantum computation, computational models

Ben Reichardt*
Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science and Institute for Quantum Computing
University of Waterloo
Email: breic@uwaterloo.ca
Expertise: quantum algorithms and span programs

John Watrous*
Associate Professor, Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Email: watrous@cs.uwaterloo.ca
Expertise: quantum algorithms and complexity, interactive proof systems

Former Team Members

Andris Ambainis*
Assistant Professor, Combinatorics and Optimization
University of Waterloo
Email: ambainis@math.uwaterloo.ca
Expertise: quantum algorithms and complexity, cryptography

Claude Crépeau*
Professor, Computer Science
McGill University
Email: crepeau@cs.mcgill.ca
Expertise: quantum cryptography, cryptographic protocols

Joseph Emerson*
Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics
University of Waterloo
Email: jemerson@uwaterloo.ca
Expertise: quantum information theory, quantum and classical chaos

David Feder*
Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy
University of Calgary
Email: feder@phas.ucalgary.ca
Expertise: multi-particle quantum information theory

Gilad Gour*
Assistant Professor, Mathematics & Statistics
University of Calgary
Email: gour@math.ucalgary.ca
Expertise: entanglement and frameness

Patrick Hayden*
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
McGill University
Email: patrick@cs.mcgill.ca
Expertise: quantum information theory, cryptographic protocols

Debbie Leung
Assistant Professor, Combinatorics and Optimization
University of Waterloo
Email: wcleung@iqc.ca
Expertise: quantum communication, fault-tolerant quantum computing

Hoi-Kwong Lo*
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Physics
University of Toronto
Email: hklo@comm.utoronto.ca
Expertise: quantum cryptography, quantum information theory

Louis Salvail*
Professeur agrégé, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research (DIRO)
Université de Montréal
Email: salvail@iro.umontreal.ca
Expertise: classic and quantum cryptography

Alain Tapp*
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Université de Montréal
Email: tappa@iro.umontreal.ca
Expertise: quantum algorithms, cryptographic protocols