Debbie Leung

Contact

wcleung(at)iqc(dot)ca
wcleung(at)uwaterloo(dot)ca

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Office location:
MC 4036 (Monday, Wednesday, Friday)
RACI 1007 (Tuseday, Thursday)

Office phone: 519-888-4567 x33604

Fax: 519-725-5441

Current teaching

Winter 2012: MATH 239: Introduction to Combinatorics Click here for Section 003 supplementary materials.

Winter 2012: QIC 890/CO 781/CS 867: Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance

Past teaching

Spring 2010: CO 781, Theory of quantum communication

IQC Colloquium

Public info for the colloquium

Internal info for the IQC colloquium

Positions for interns, PhD, and others

Currently, one position for graduate student and another for summer intern is available. You're encouraged to apply through IQC via this homepage.
For more info, please use this awesome link, thanks to Ashwin Nayak

Current affiliations

Faculty (Sept 2005-), Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo

Faculty (May 2004-), Institute for Quantum Computing

Scholar (Mar 2005-), The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

Affiliate Member (Dec 2004-), Perimeter Institute fo Theoretical Physics

Background and previous affiliations

Tolman Postdoctoral Fellow (2003-5), Institute for Quantum Information, Caltech

Postdoctoral Fellow (2002), Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley

Postdoctoral Fellow (2000-2), Physics of Information group, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Ph.D. in Physics (2000), Stanford Univeristy
Thesis: "Towards Robust Quantum Computation"
Advisors: Prof. Yoshihisa Yamamoto and Prof. Isaac Chuang

B.S. in Physics/Mathematics (1995), California Institute of Technology
Thesis: ``Effects of thermal conduction in sonoluminescence''
Advisors: Prof. Steven E. Koonin and Dr. Ming-Chung Chu

Research Interest

General interests: theoretical quantum information processing.

Quantum information processing capacities of abstract or physical resources, e.g., the capacity of communicating quantum information using the dual resources of entanglement and quantum/classical channels (remote state preparation and superdense coding of quantum states), the capacity of nonlocal interactions to communicating quantum/classical information, to generate entanglement, and to perform quantum computation. General quantum channel capacities.
Cryptographic applications of quantum information, e.g., composability of important quantum protocols, methods for quantum state encryption and authentication and secure key recycling in such protocols, quantum data hiding, quantum key distribution.
Variation of measurement-based quantum computation.
Fault tolerant quantum computation, and error correcting codes.

Long time interests: study of various quantum or classical correlations in quantum systems, solution state NMR quantum computation, and quantum process tomography.