Hoi-Kwong Lo, University of Toronto
QuantumWorks Researcher
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Hoi-Kwong Lo is an Associate Professor in both the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Physics of the University of Toronto. He currently holds a Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information. His research group works on quantum information, particularly, both the theory and experiments of quantum cryptography.
Hoi-Kwong Lo received his B.A. in Mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge University in 1989. He received his M. S. and Ph. D. in (Theoretical Particle) Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1991 and 1994 respectively. From 1994 to 1996, he was a Member of the School of Natural Science, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. In 1996, he joined Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol, UK as a postdoctoral fellow. In 1997, he became a Senior Member of Technical Staff there. In 1999, he took up the posts of the Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of MagiQ Technologies, Inc., New York, which is a leading company in the commercialization of quantum information. In Dec. 2002, he joined the University of Toronto as an Associate Professor.