Federal funding adds fuel to theoretical and applied quantum research

Five faculty from the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo have received grants totalling more than $300,000 through Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s Discovery Grants program. The grants will help fund the theoretical and applied research of professors in Faculties of Engineering, Science and Mathematics.Dr. Bradley Hauer, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering $149,945 Millimeter-wave infrastructure supporting next-generation quantum sensors (Co-applicants are Drs. Adrian Lupascu, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Christopher Wilson.)Dr. David Gosset, Professor, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization  $53,000 Quantum advantage, classical simulation, and complexity Dr.

Adam Wei Tsen, Professor, Department of Chemistry $49,000 Visualization and Control of Moiré Quantum Matter Dr. Christopher Wilson, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering $49,000 Quantum Microwaves for Advanced Sensing and Simulation The funding awarded to IQC faculty is part of more than $7.1 million in NSERC funding distributed to over 100 University of Waterloo researchers across multiple disciplines. Read more on Waterloo News.