Debbie Leung

Faculty, Professor
Debbie Leung

Debbie Leung joined the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ in 2005. Before that, she was a Tolman postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Quantum Information, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), after spending four months at the Workshop on Quantum Computation, September-December 2002, at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, and a two-year stay at 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.

Current projects and research expertise

  • Quantum cryptography
  • Quantum communications
  • Measurement-based quantum computation
  • Fault-tolerant quantum computation and error correction

Teaching affiliations

  • Undergraduate courses for the Faculty of Math and the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ, and graduate courses for the Institute for Quantum Computing

Degrees

  • PhD in Physics, Stanford University, 2000
  • BSc in Physics and Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, 1995

Awards & honours

  • Tier II Canada Research Chair in Quantum Communications, 2005–2015
  • Richard C. Tolman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theoretical Physics, Caltech, 2002-2005
  • Croucher Foundation Fellowship, 2002-2005

Major positions

Title Location When
Professor Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ 2015-present
University Research Chair
Institute for Quantum Computing, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ
2015-2022
Associate Professor Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ 2010-2015
Assistant Professor Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ 2005-2010
Faculty Member Institute for Quantum Computing, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ 2005-present
Quantum Information Processing Program member Canadian Institute For Advanced Research (CIFAR) 2005-present
Affiliate Member Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics 2005-present