Debbie Leung

Debbie Leung is a University Research Chair at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, where she is also affiliated with the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization. She works in theoretical quantum information processing.[1][2][3]

Leung's research areas include quantum cryptography, quantum communication, measurement-based quantum computation, fault-tolerant quantum computation and error correction.[4][5][6][7]

Leung earned her Bachelor of Science in mathematics and physics from Caltech in 1995. She received her PhD under doctoral advisors Yoshihisa Yamamoto and Isaac Chuang at Stanford.[6][3] In her PhD thesis, entitled "Towards Robust Quantum Computation", she demonstrated the surprising result that approximate quantum error-correcting codes can outperform their exact counterparts.[2]

In 2002, Leung won the Tolman postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Quantum Information at Caltech and the Croucher Fellowship.[8] In 2005, she won a 10-year Tier II Canada Research Chair in Quantum Communications.[1][9] Her recent work focuses on quantum channel capacities, quantum network coding, and quantum information processing with limited entanglement.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b "Debbie Leung, Faculty, University Research Chair". University of Waterloo Institute for Quantum Computing. Archived from the original on 2021-07-27.
  2. ^ a b "Debbie Leung". University of Waterloo Mathematics. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  3. ^ a b "Debbie Leung, Faculty, Canada Research Chair". Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo. 2014-03-17. Archived from the original on 2019-02-27. Retrieved 2019-02-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ Mandelbaum, Ryan F. "What the Hell Is a Quantum Computer and How Excited Should I Be?". Gizmodo. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  5. ^ "Is quantum computing scalable?". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2019-02-26.
  6. ^ a b "Six Questions with: Debbie Leung". Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Archived from the original on 2019-09-05.
  7. ^ Johnston, Hamish (2013-06-06). "Quantum communication in the back of a pick-up". Physics World. Retrieved 2019-02-26.
  8. ^ "Behind science fiction: conversations with a physicist". The Croucher Foundation. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 2019-02-26.
  9. ^ a b "Debbie Leung". CIFAR. Retrieved 2019-02-15.


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