QUANTUM COMPUTING - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Physics and Astronomy
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Professor
Dr. Konrad Walus is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his Electrical Engineering degree, from the University of Windsor in 2001 and completed his PhD in electrical engineering at the University of Calgary, in 2005.
Dr. Walus' research focuses on the applications of nanotechnology in electronic devices. As an example, he is investigating the application of molecular devices as an emerging computational nanotechnology, as well as the application of nanostructured materials in bio- and gas sensing. In order to exploit the novel properties of nanostructured and organic materials at the micro-scale, Dr. Walus and the other members of the MINA team are also applying novel inkjet micropatterning techniques to fabricate micro-devices using functional "inks" consisting of composites of organic polymers infused with nanostructures in order to augment and enhance performance while also reducing cost. His specific research interests include electronic devices based on molecular quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) and electronic devices fabricated using inkjet micropatterning including printed sensors, transistors, and LED's.
Job Titles:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Professor
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor
- Electrical Engineer
Joe Salfi is an electrical engineer and quantum physicist whose research targets the investigation, realization and assembly of building blocks for quantum information systems that could one day perform calculations well beyond the abilities of classical information technologies. These systems include quantum computers and quantum simulators, transformational technologies promising far reaching applications in optimization, machine learning, design of materials, and information security. Joe's work includes optimizing the coherence and scalability of quantum bits, engineering the interactions of qubits for quantum computers and simulators, and building hybrid systems of spin qubits and microwave photons. Joe is very interested in special purpose quantum simulators, where the first real applications of post-cryptography quantum technologies will probably be realized.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Physics and Astronomy
Professor Folk has led the Quantum Devices group since he joined the UBC faculty in 2005. Topics pursued by the group include mesoscopic physics, fractional quantum Hall effect, spin coherence in nanostructures, and dephasing/decoherence mechanisms at ultra-low temperatures.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor at UBC
Mieszko Lis is an Assistant Professor at UBC. His research interests include multicore architecture, fine-grained parallelism and compilation techniques, high-level hardware design languages and methodologies, and the applications of computing techniques to the natural sciences. He is committed to raising the level of abstraction across the computing landscape - an interest he has also explored as co-designer of the high-level hardware design language Bluespec and developer of a high-level language for computational immunology studies.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor
- Physical Therapist
Dr. Virji-Babul is a physical therapist and a neuroscientist. Her Lab (Brain Development: Perception to Action) uses a combination of behavioural and brain imaging tools (i.e. DTI and EEG) to probe the brain and investigate the patterns of brain activation as they relate to perceptual-motor and social-emotional development in children and youth. Dr. Virji-Babul also has a strong research focus on concussion in adolescents. Her goals are to develop sensitive, multimodal measures of brain injury that can be used for early diagnosis and use these measures to chart the recovery process following concussion. Dr. Virji-Babul works collaboratively with faculty in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics and Statistics and in the Developmental Neurosciences and Child Health Cluster at the Child and Family Research Institute.
Nicolas Jaeger is a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department in UBC.
Prashant's interests are in the areas of reliability, security, and performance-power efficient memory systems. He is also interested in system-level and architecture-level optimization to enable efficient and practical quantum computers.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Physics and Astronomy
Dr. Mirabbasi and his team's research interests include analog, mixed-signal, and RF integrated circuit and system design for wireless and wireline data communication, data converter, sensor interface, and biomedical applications.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor
- Physics
Dr. Wilton's research is in the areas of Computer Architecture and VLSI design. Dr. Wilton is interested in architectures of next-generation Field-Programmable Gate Arrays and Computer-Aided Design algorithms that map circuits to these devices. A Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) can be programmed to implement virtually any digital circuit. This programmability provides companies with the ability to implement large, complex circuits without requiring access to an expensive state-of-the-art chip manufacturing plant, an expense that is out-of-reach for most small and medium-sized electronics companies. The goal of Dr. Wilton's research is to improve FPGAs by enhancing both their internal structure (architecture) as well as the associated Computer-Aided Design algorithms. He is also interested in post-silicon debug and the application of programmable logic to System-on-a-Chip Design.