News

2025

Nov 2025

Debo Biswas' paper on structural and electron transport characterization of isotope purified Ge heterostructures is on the arxiv.  This is a key achievement to improve the coherence of spin qubits based on of holes.  Oussama Moutanabbir's group in Polytechnique Montreal grew the wafers and characterized them structurally, and Debo did the magnetotransport measurements. 

July 2025

Jeonghyun Park joined the group as a Quantum Measurement Technician from Seoul National University, where he did research on trapped ion quantum control. Welcome to the group, Jeonghyun.

June 2025

Mohammad and Phillip's paper on a new scheme for bidirectional microwave-optical conversion was accepted in npj Quantum Information. The article can be found here. Popular press coverage by PhysOrg and MSN here and here. Congratulations Mohammad and Phillip! 

April 2025

Phillip Kirwin and Nick Philips both received scholarships from the National Science and Engineering Research council. Congratulations Phillip and Nick!

January 2025

BlueFors delivered a LD250 dry fridge to the Quantum Science and Technology Laboratory with a 6/1/1 Tesla vector magnet. Here it is pictured alongside Bill Kung.

Dr. Mohammad Khalifa, our first graduating PhD student, starts his postdoctoral position at UC Berkeley in the group of Alp Sipihigil. Congratulations Mohammad!

2024

October 2024

Daniel and Edward's paper on "Cryogenic optical-to-microwave downconversion using Si photonic integrated circuits" was accepted for publication in APL Photonics. Congratulations Daniel and Edward! This is our first collaboration with the photonics groups at UBC of Lukas Chrostowski, Sudip Shekhar, and Jeff Young. Here is the link to the paper.

September 2024

Three new students have joined the group this fall. Eloïse Baril joins from CentraleSupélec at Paris-Saclay University. Bill joins from University of Alberta where he completed a degree in Engineering Physics.  Nicholas Phillips joins from the University of British Columbia where he completed the Honours Physics degree with a thesis from the group of our UBC colleague Joshua Folk. 

August 2024

Congratulations to Phillip Kirwin on passing his PhD qualifier exam!

Congratulations to Mohammad on the defence of his PhD thesis "Parametric Amplification and Conversion with Superconducting Nanowire Resonators"!

ICE Oxford delivers a dry VTI/0.3 Kelvin system to the Quantum Science and Technology Laboratory

July 2024

Mohammad and Polina's paper "Kinetic Inductance Parametric Converter" was accepted for Publication in Physical Review Applied. Congratulations Mohammad and Polina. Here is the link for the paper. 

May 2024

Debojyoti Biswas and Arjun Sen from University of British Columbia join the group for summer research under the Quantum Pathways program. Vivek Dhande joins the group as a summer research student from the University of Toronto Engineering Science Program. 

Thank you to PacifiCan for funding the Quantum Science and Technology Laboratory and the UBC/QMI Advanced Nanofabrication facility with $3.2m to boost commercialization of quantum technologies. See news here and here.

May 2024

Mohammad Khalifa succesfully completed his internal PhD defence. Congratulations Mohammad!

April 2024

Ferruccio Castellini joins the group as a Masters Intern.

January 2024

Thank you to the National Research Council of Canada for funding our project on Quantum Transduction.

2023

October 2023

The CFI, BCKDF, and UBC have funded the QSTL's new facility for research in quantum computers and quantum networks. See news here. 

September 2023

Anton Cecic joins the group as a MASc student.

July 2023

Ana Ciocoiu completed her MASc degree in the QSTL and is off to Photonic, Inc.

May 2023

Marcus Edwards joins the group as a PhD student. Anton Cecic joins the group as a Undergraduate Research Assistant and Arjun Sen joins as a Quantum Pathways student. Welcome Anton, Arjun, and Marcus!

April 2023

NSERC funded two Quantum Alliance Consortia funding proposals involving the UBC QSTL. The first, led by the UBC QSTL, is the Consortium on Quantum Simulation with Spin Qubits. The second is the Canadian Consortium for Quantum Engineered States and Transduction. See news here. 

March 2023

Mohammad Khalifa's paper, "Nonlinearity and Parametric Amplification of Superconducting Nanowire Resonators in Magnetic Field" is accepted in Physical Review Applied (DOI). Congratulations Mohammad!

Jan 2023

Ashu started his PhD position at the University of New South Wales. Congratulations Ashu!

Jan 2023

Karim started his position at The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research. Congratulations Karim!

2022

November 2022

MITACs has funded the joint project "QuantumIO: Integrated photonics control and readout system for quantum computing." 

November 2022

Karim Elkholy defended his MASc thesis entitled "Nonlinear Superconducting Circuit Elements for Scalable Quantum Technologies" in a joint project with D-Wave Systems. Congratulations Karim!

July 2022

UBC, UVic, and SFU's NSERC CREATE Grant in Quantum Computing together with CMC and UdeS's QSciTech program offered the second "Build your own superconducting electronics workshop" More information can be found here.

May 2022

Nabiha Khan started her undergraduate research assistantship with us on quantum computing electronics. Welcome Nabiha!

May 2022

Ana Ciocoiu started her 8-month internship at Photonic, Inc. See you in 8 months for the end of your MASc thesis, Ana.

April 2022

Ashutosh Bhudia defended his Honours thesis. Congratulations Ashutosh! And congratulations on your new PhD position in Sydney, Australia!

March 2022

Joe delivered at invited talk at the APS March meeting entitled "Engineering Long Coherence Times of Spin-Orbit Qubits in 28Si".

January 2022

Hanieh Rad defended her Master Thesis entitled "Instrumentation and Fabrication Techniques for Semiconductor-Based Quantum Technologies". Congratulations Hanieh!

2021

September 2021

Ashutosh Bhudia starts his thesis project with the group on superconducting devices.

August 2021

The RIKEN/Vancouver workshop on Quantum Computing was held, organized by Tetuso Hatsuda (RIKEN iTHEMs), Yasunobu Nakamura (RQC), Shunji Matsuura (1QBit), myself (UBC), Erika Kawakami (RQC/RIKEN CPR), and Neill Lambert (RIKEN CPR). More information can be found here.

July 2021

UBC, UVic, and SFU's NSERC CREATE Grant in Quantum Computing together with CMC and UdeS's QSciTech program offer the first ever quantum computing workship where students design, fabricate, and test their own chips! More information can be found here and here. We plan to run it annually. The workshop was organized by myself, Rogerio de Sousa, and Yves Bérubé-Lauzière. More information can be found here and here.

May 2021

Undergrad student Ashutosh Bhudia (UBC Physics)  joins the group for an internship through the UBC WLIURA program to work on superconducting devices. Noah Tajwar (UBC Engineering Physics) joins the group through a NSERC USRA scholarship to work on control of spin qubits: from instrumentation to system-level design of scalable control. Welcom Ashu and Noah!

April 2021

Our NSERC Alliance grant "Superconducting devices for commercially relevant quantum computers" with D-Wave Systems was funded. Thank you NSERC and D-Wave Systems!

April 2021

Our NSERC RTI grant "Reactive Ion Etcher for Commercially Relevant Quantum Devices", jointly applied for with Prof. Lukas Chrostowski and Prof. Jeff Young, was funded. More information can be found here. Thank you NSERC!

January 2021

Our paper with Zhanning Wang and Dimi Culcer from UNSW was published in Nature Partner Journals: Quantum Information. More information can be found here and here. 

January 2021

Ana Ciocoiu joined the group as a MSc student to work on theory and experiment of spin qubits, holding the prestigious NSERC CGS M scholarship, among others. Welcome Ana!

2020

December 2020

My public talk at the CityAge event 'Building the Future: AI and Quantum Technologies', can be found here.

September 2020

The Quantum Science and Technology Lab joins the Quantum Matter Institute, in addition to our primary affiliation with the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Ana Ciocoui joined the group as an undergraduate research assistant to work on design tools for spin qubits. Welcome Ana!

September 2020

Hanieh won a presitigious NSERC CREATE scholarship to continue her work on spin qubits! Congratulations Hanieh.

July 2020

Several key pieces of experimental infrastructure for the QMI quantum computing grand challenge arrive from Keysight!

June 2020

NSERC is funding our UBC-SFU-UVic graduate training program in Quantum Computing. For more information, click this link. Press releases here and here. 

April 2020

Dr. Ebrahim Sajadi joins the group to work on spin qubit based quantum simulators in the QMI quantum computing grand challenge. Welcome Ebrahim! Ebrahim has a background in transport and quantum devices.

February 2020

Our BlueFors dilution refrigerator was installed on-site in the AMPEL laboratory.

January 2020

Mukhlasur Tanvir, who holds a prestigious UBC 4YF fellowship, joins the group to work on quantum simulators. Welcome Mukhlasur!

2019

October 2019

UBC's Quantum Matter Institute announces Grand Challenge on quantum computation, led by Prof. Robert Raussendorf. The Quantum Science and Technology Lab contributes one of the three foundational pillars. More information here.

September 2019

Introduction to Quantum Computation is offered for the first time in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.  

Hanieh Aghaee Rad and Karim Elkholy join the group to work on spin qubits and superconducting technologies, respectively . Welcome Hanieh and Karim!

May 2019

Vasudha Hemadri Bhotla joins as an undergraduate research in the QMI Quantum Pathways program.

April 2019

NSERC has funded our Discovery Grant, "Coherent quantum information platform with spin-orbit coupling in silicon". Thank you NSERC!

April 2019

The Canadian Foundation for Innovation has funded our John Edwards Leaders Foundation (CFI JELF) project "Ultra-low temperature facility for Quantum Simulators and Quantum Computers in Silicon." The funds are matched by the British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund (BCKDF). Thank you CFI and BCKDF! 

March 2019

The QSTL is awarded joint funding on spin-3/2 quantum devices through the SBQMI and IQ. Thank you SBQMI and IQ! More information here.

January 2019

The Quantum Computing Research Cluster at UBC is formed.

The Quantum Science and Technology Lab is established at UBC, a new quantum information science research group in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department with facilities in AMPEL 111.  We start designing and building our first experiments.

Mohammad Khalifa joins the group as our first PhD student to work on spin qubits and superconducting technologies. Mohammad holds a QuEST fellowship from the QMI. Welcome, Mohammad!