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Prof. Broadbent is a Full Professor at the University of Ottawa, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, with cross appointments to the Department of Physics and to the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Prof. Broadbent holds the University of Ottawa Research Chair in Quantum Information and Cryptography. Her research relates to cryptography, communication, and information processing in a quantum world.

Prof. Broadbent’s research is recognized by multiple awards and accolades, including the University of Ottawa Young Researcher of the Year Award (2019), the Ontario Early Researcher Award (2016), the André Aisenstadt Prize in Mathematics (2016), the John Charles Polanyi Prize (2010) and the NSERC Doctoral Prize (2009).

Anne Broadbent

Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Ottawa

Barry Sanders is Scientific Director of Calgary’s “Quantum City”, which is within the University of Calgary and tasked with building a strong quantum ecosystem in Alberta. Dr Sanders’s 1988 Doctor of Philosophy and 2018 Doctor of Science are awarded by Imperial College London, and his theoretical research comprises quantum sensing, quantum and quantum-resilient communication, quantum computing and quantum optics. He held numerous distinguished international visiting professorships and affiliations and is a Scientist with the Creative Destruction Lab at the Universities of Toronto and Calgary. Sanders serves as an Expert with the Canadian Council of Academies and on expert panels in Canada, USA and Europe. Dr Sanders is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, of the United Kingdom Institute of Physics, of the American Physical Society, and of Optica, and he received the City of Calgary International Achievement Award in 2022.

Barry Sanders

Scientific Director of Calgary’s “Quantum City”

Elizabeth Kleisath is the Communications Officer at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), a research institute at the University of Waterloo. Elizabeth holds master's degrees in materials chemistry and science communications. She is passionate about sharing her curiosity about the world around us and has a talent for explaining complicated science topics in approachable ways. At IQC, Elizabeth is responsible for sharing quantum stories about the research and breakthroughs happening at the institute.

Elizabeth Kleisath

Communications Officer at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)

Hemavathi Santhanam is an IBM Quantum Ambassador and a Qiskit Advocate. As for her day job, Hema is a Delivery Consultant at IBM Expert Labs building enterprise solutions around Data Governance and AI with IBM Cloud Pak for Data. She is a graduate in Computing and Data Analytics from Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Hemavathi Santhanam

IBM Quantum Ambassador and a Qiskit Advocate

Kero is a theorist working on the interface of quantum optics and quantum information. After getting his PhD from University of Toronto, Kero was awarded the Croucher Fellowship, and later worked as a postdoc at Max Planck Institute and University of Chicago. In 2020, Kero joined the SFU Department of Physics as an assistant professor. He is also the Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information Science and an affiliate fellow of Quantum Algorithm Institute. Kero focuses on studying the physics of Bosonic quantum systems and how they can be used for information processing. His ultimate goal is to bring quantum technologies to reality.

Hoi-Kwon (Kero) Lau

Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics of SFU

Dr. John Donohue is the Senior Manager of Scientific Outreach at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), a research institute at the University of Waterloo. John is responsible for making quantum science accessible for everyone, including through educational programs like the Undergraduate School on Experimental Quantum Information Processing (USEQIP). John earned his PhD from the University of Waterloo in 2016 for work in quantum optics.

John Donohue

Senior Manager of Scientific Outreach at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)

Joseph Salfi completed a PhD at the University of Toronto in 2011. From 2011 to 2015 he was a postdoc and from 2016 to 2018 was junior faculty at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology, the international epicentre for silicon based qubits. In 2019, he joined the University of British Columbia as faculty. His research interests are in the physics and technology of spin-based quantum computers and quantum simulators.

Joseph Salfi

Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
@ UBC

Katanya Kuntz (PhD) is a Research Associate at the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Canada, and the QEYSSat Science Team Coordinator for Canada’s first quantum satellite mission: Quantum EncrYption and Science Satellite (QEYSSat). Katanya received her PhD in Electrical Engineering (Quantum Optics) from the University of New South Wales, Australia, and BSc in Physics from the University of Calgary. She is also the co-founder and CEO of Qubo Consulting Corp., a quantum education company that teaches businesses and organizations to get them quantum literate.

Katanya Kuntz

Research Associate at the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo

Lukas Chrostowski is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, and co-founder of Dream Photonics Inc. Through his research in silicon photonics, optoelectronics, high-speed laser design, fabrication and test, for applications in optical communications, biophotonics, and quantum photonics, he has published more than 300 journal and conference publications. He co-authored the book “Silicon Photonics Design” (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Dr. Chrostowski was the co-director of the Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory (AMPEL) Nanofabrication Facility (ANF), 2008-2016. Dr. Chrostowski was the Program Director of the NSERC CREATE Silicon Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuits (Si-EPIC) training program in Canada, and has been teaching numerous silicon photonics workshops and courses since 2008, which continue today as the SiEPICfab consortium. Chrostowski received the Killam Teaching Prize at the University of British Columbia in 2014, IEEE Photonics Society Technical Skills Educator Award in 2021, and IEEE Canada's J.M Ham Outstanding Engineering Educator Award in 2021. He was an elected member of the IEEE Photonics Society 2014-2016 Board of Governors. He was elected to the college of the Royal Society of Canada in 2019. Chrostowski is the Program Director for the NSERC CREATE 2020-2026 Quantum Computing program (Quantum BC), co-leading the Quantum Silicon Photonics design-fabricate-test workshop.

Lukas Chrostowski

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia

Peter Hoyer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. His research is on quantum algorithms, quantum complexity theory, quantum communication, and quantum cryptography. He is a co-discoverer of quantum amplitude amplification, which is a core tool in the design of quantum algorithms and protocols. He has won several student awards for his teaching in computer science. He holds a PhD from University of Southern Denmark.

Peter Hoyer

Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary

My research is on how to design quantum hardware with less noise, with particular focus on photons and superconducting materials. More recently we also became involved with research related to how to implement quantum algorithms with the cloud-based quantum computers from IBM and D-Wave. I have collaborators at other universities and national labs in multiple countries (Brazil, Canada, France, USA, etc). I have an ongoing collaboration with scientists at D-Wave Systems Inc., where we investigate the sources of noise and how to reduce them in the D-Wave quantum processor.

I am also an academic fellow of the British Columbia Quantum Algorithms Institute, based at the Surrey campus of Simon Fraser University. With leading companies in our area (1Qbit, D-Wave, Photonic), our province recognizes the opportunity to develop a quantum ecosystem that can compete worldwide in the development of this exciting new technology. This includes a multi-university effort to form more professionals with expertise in quantum hardware and software. For more information on what is going on in B.C. related to quantum computing, check out our Quantum-BC webpage, http://quantum-bc.ca/ .

Rogerio De Sousa

Associate Professor in the Department of Physics
at The University of Victoria

Roman Krems is a Professor of Chemistry and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia. He is also a member of the computer science department at UBC and a principal investigator at theStewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute. His work is at the intersection of quantum physics, machine learning and chemistry on problems of relevance to quantum materials and quantum technologies. He is particularly excited about applications of machine learning for solving complex quantum problems and applications of quantum hardware for machine learning. He is Fellow of the American Physical Society and Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada.

Roman Krems

Professor of Chemistry and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia

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