Debbie Leung

Contact

wcleung(at)math(dot)uwaterloo(dot)ca

Email Me

Office location: QNC 3313

Office phone: 519-888-4567 x33604

Fax: 519-725-5441

Current teaching

Fall 2012: QIC 890/CO 781: Theory of quantum communication

Recent teaching

Winter 2012, Spring 2011: MATH 239: Introduction to Combinatorics

Winter 2012: QIC 890/CO 781/CS 867: Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance (with Daniel Gottesman)

Spring 2010: QIC 890/CO 781, Theory of quantum communication

IQC Colloquium

Public info for the colloquium

Internal info for the IQC colloquium (need UW password)

Positions for interns, PhD, and others

Currently, I'm not hiring students.

For more info on IQC positions, 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.
  • 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, variations of measurement-based quantum computation.

    Publications

  • What's already on the arXiv

    • Partial list of quantum teachers and collaborators

  • Panos Aliferis
  • Dave Bacon
  • Charles Bennett
  • Andrew Childs
  • Isaac Chuang
  • Toby Cubitt
  • Igor Devetak
  • David DiVincenzo
  • Aram Harrow
  • Patrick Hayden
  • Michal Horodecki
  • Hoi-Kwong Lo
  • William Matthews
  • Dominic Mayers
  • Michael Nielsen
  • Jonathan Oppenheim
  • Graeme Smith
  • John Preskill
  • John Smolin
  • Peter Shor
  • Barbara Terhal
  • Guifre Vidal
  • Andreas Winter
  • Prof. Yoshihisa Yamamoto

    • Students who are working with me right now

  • Michal Kotowski
  • Laura Mancinska
  • Yingkai Ouyang
  • Maris Ozols
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    Formally supervised and graduated students

  • Mohammad Derakhshani

    • People who had work with me as students

    Panos Aliferis, Adam Azarchs, Andrew Childs, Aram Harrow, Graeme Smith, Panos Aliferis, Man-Hong Yung, Adam Azarchs, Abhinav Bahadur, Miroslava Sotakova, Moritz Ernst, Christophe Vuillot, Egor Larionov

    Updated Sept 03, 2012