Debbie Leung

Debbie Leung has been a Professor at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo since 2005.  Before that, she was a Tolman postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Quantum Information, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), a program postdoctoral fellow at the Workshop on Quantum Computation 2002, at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, and a postdoctoral fellow 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 University under the supervision of Professor Yoshihisa Yamamoto and Professor Isaac Chuang.  Her research is in the theory of quantum information, focusing on capacities of quantum channels, quantum data compression, entanglement theory, measurement based quantum computation, quantum error correction and fault-tolerant quantum computation.