Michele Mosca, IQC, University of Waterloo
QuantumWorks Researcher
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Michele Mosca obtained a BMath from St. Jerome's University and the University of Waterloo in 1995 and was recipient of the UW Mathematics Faculty Alumni Gold Medal. He went to Wolfson College, University of Oxford, on a Commonwealth Scholarship, and received an MSc in mathematics and the foundations of computer science in 1996. He continued at Oxford on a UK Communications-Electronic Security Group scholarship, obtaining a DPhil in quantum computer algorithms in 1999 while holding the Robin Gandy Junior Research Fellowship. Since 1999 he has been a faculty member in mathematics at St. Jerome's University and in the Combinatorics & Optimization department of the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, and a member of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research. He holds a Premier's Research Excellence Award (2000-2005), is the Canada Research Chair in Quantum Computation (since January 2002), and is a CIAR scholar (since September 2003). He is a co-founder and the Deputy Director of the Institute for Quantum Computing, and a founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.