Principal Investigator

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Dr. K. Rajibul Islam

Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Institute for Quantum Computing
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Administrative Assistant

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Amber Wang

Research Finance Coordinator, IQC
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Research Associate

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Dr. Mahmood Sabooni

Research Associate (2024-), Post-Doctoral researcher (2021-22)
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Postdocts

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Dr. Akbar Jahangiri Jozani

Postdoctoral fellow (Dec 2022 - )
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Grad Students

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Anthony Vogliano

PhD Candidate (2022-), MSc (2020- 22)
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Jingwen (Monica) Zhu

PhD student (2023 - ), MSc (2021-23)
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Lewis Hahn

PhD student (2024 -), MSc (2022-24)
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Xinghe Tan

PhD student (2024 - ), MSc (2022-24),
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Fabien Lefebvre

PhD student (2025-), MSc student (2023-2025)
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Ali Mustafa Khatai

MSc student (2023-2025)
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Akimasa Ihara

PhD student (2023-)
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Sakshee Patil

MSc student (2024-), Research Assistant (2022-24)
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Hin Pok Cyrus Fung

MSc student (2024-), Undergraduate researcher (Winter 2024)
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Chris Graham

MSc student (2025-)
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Mu Niu

PhD Student (2025-)
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Faizan Samad

MSc Student (2025-)
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Undergrads

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Siddharth Chawla

Undergraduate volunteer (Fall 2025), co-op student (Fall 2023-Spring 2025)
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Kyle MacRobbie

Undergraduate Volunteer (Fall 2025, Physics and Astronomy 4B), co-op student (Spring 2025)
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Yuvan Sooryakumar

Undergrad co-op student (Fall 2025, Honors Phys 3A)
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Riddhiman Paul

Undergrad co-op student (Fall 2025, Mechatronics Eng. 3A)
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Dhairya Goel

Undergrad co-op student (Fall 2025, Mechatronics Eng. 3A)
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Bryan McNeil

Undergrad co-op student (Fall 2025, Math Phys 2B)
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Alumni

Graduate student and postdoc alumni

Dr. Yi Hong Teoh

PhD (2021-2025 , co-supervised), MSc (2019-21)
Post-Doc at University of Waterloo, Open Quantum Design
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Shilpa Mahato

MSc student (2023-2025)
MSc Physics(Quantum Information), University of Waterloo
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Dr. Nikhil Kotibhaskar

PhD (2019 - 2024), MSc (2017-19)
Quantinuum
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Dr. Chung-You (Gilbert) Shih

PhD (2019-23), MSc (2017-19), Research Assistant (Oct 2023 - Jan '24)
software developer in industry
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Darian Mclaren

MSc (2021 - 22, co-supervised)
Applied Mathematics Masters Student, University of Waterloo
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Ali Binai-Motlagh

MSc (2020- 22)
Columbia University (PhD)
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Zewen Sun

MSc (2019 - 2021)
Max Planck Institute (PhD)
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Dr. Manas Sajjan

MSc (2018-20)
Postdoc, Purdue University
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Nikolay Videnov

MSc (2019 -21)
U Waterloo (PhD student)
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Dr. Yu-Ting Chen

Postdoctoral fellow (Dec 2022 - July 2025)
NIST
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Dr. Sainath Motlakunta

Postdoctoral fellow (Nov 2023 - 2024), PhD / MSc student (2018-2023)
IonQ
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Dr. Roland Hablützel

Postdoctoral fellow (2018-22)
National Quantum Computing Centre, UK (Staff scientist)
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Dr. Fereshteh Rajabi

Postdoctoral fellow (2017- 21)
Faculty, McMaster University
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Dr. Matthew Day

Postdoctoral fellow (2020-21 , jointly with Crystal Senko's group)
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Other alumni

Nathan Rowe

Undergraduate co-op student (Spring 2025, Mechatronics Engineering 3B)
3B Mechatronics Engineering Undergraduate, University of Waterloo
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Oliva Rajguru

Undergraduate USEQUIP student (Spring 2025)
Undergraduate USEQUIP student
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Tal Kaufman

Undergraduate co-op student (Spring 2025, Mechanical Engineering 3B)
3B Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate, University of Waterloo
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Aryan Sood

Undergraduate Volunteer (Spring 2025, Physics and Astronomy 2B)
2B Physics and Astronomy Undergraduate, University of Waterloo
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Zachary Lyu

Phys 437 Project (Fall 2024)
4A Physics and Astronomy Undergraduate, University of Waterloo
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Kunal Varkekar

Phys 437 Project (Winter 2025, Phys Astro 4B)
4B Physics and Astronomy Undergraduate, University of Waterloo
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Lysistrata Chin Kanellakis

Undergraduate co-op student (Winter 2025, Mech Eng 3B)
3B Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate, University of Waterloo
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Abeiku Darkwa

Undergraduate co-op student (Fall 2024)
4A Physics and Astronomy Undergraduate, University of Waterloo
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Dejan Plavsic

Undergrad co-op student (Fall 2024, Eng 4A)
4A Engineering Undergraduate, University of Waterloo
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Gary Zhong

Undergraduate co-op student (Fall 2024, Mech Eng 4A)
3A Physics and Astronomy Undergraduate, University of Waterloo
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Taha Malik

Graduate co-op student
Masters of Engineering: University of Waterloo (Mechanical & Mechatronics)
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Leo Xing

Undergrad co-op student (Winter 2023, Mechantronics Eng. 2A)
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Mustafa Syed

Undergrad co-op student (Winter 2023, Nano Eng. 3B)
3B Nanoeng Undergraduate
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Sanju Sathiyamoorthy

Undergrad co-op student (Winter 2023, Mechantronics Eng. 2B)
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Ashley Saggu

Undergrad co-op student (Spring 2022, Mechanical Eng. 2A)
2A Mechanical Engineer Undergraduate
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Ryan Mark

Undergrad co-op student (Spring 2022, Mechatronics Eng. 2A)
2A Mechatronics Engineering Undergraduate, University of Waterloo
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Souvik Sil

Undergrad co-op student (Spring 2022, Mechanical Eng. 2A)
2A Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate
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Alisa Shirkalina

Undergrad co-op student (Winter 2022, Mechanical Eng. 2A)
2A Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate, University of Waterloo
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Frank Boal

Undergrad co-op student (Winter 2022, Mechatronics Eng. 2A)
2A Mechatronics Undergraduate, University of Waterloo
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Mark Wallace

Undergrad co-op student ( Winter 2022, Spring 2021, Mechanical Eng. 3B)
3B Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate, University of Waterloo
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Stephen Del Grosso Milek

Undergrad co-op student (Winter 2022, Spring 2021, Mechanical Eng. 3B)
3B Mechanical Eng., UW
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Gaurav Tathed

Undergraduate co-op student (Fall 2021, Spring and Fall 2020, Phys. 3B)
Physics Undergraduate, University of Waterloo
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Levi Medeiros

Undergrad co-op student (Fall 2021, Mechatronics Eng. 3B)
2B Mechatronics Undergraduate, University of Waterloo
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Mariah De Torres

Undergraduate researcher (Winter 2021)
Undergraduate, University of Waterloo
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Nathan Snider

Undergraduate researcher (Winter 2021)
Undergraduate, University of Waterloo
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Tim (Jia Hong) Li

Undergrad co-op student (Fall 2021, Mechanical Eng. 4A)
4A Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate, University of Waterloo
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Ziyan Li

Undergrad co-op student (Fall 2021, Mechanical Eng. 2B)
2B Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate, University of Waterloo
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Paige Angela Harford

Undergrad co-op student (Spring 2021, Phys. Hons. 3B)
3B Physics Undergraduate, University of Waterloo
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Austin Con

Undergrad co-op student (Winter and Fall 2020)
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Scott Hubele

Undergrad researcher (USEQIP, Summer 2020)
LMU, Munich
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Jakob Devey

Undergraduate researcher
2B Honours Physics, University of Waterloo
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Jillian Ryan

Undergraduate researcher
Undergraduate, University of Waterloo
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Nathaniel Ho-Wah Johnston

Undergrad co-op student
Undergraduate, University of Waterloo
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Qinghao Zhang

Undergraduate Researcher, Physics 437 project (Fall 2020)
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Samuel Slavko Laketa

Undergraduate Researcher, Physics 437 project
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Rachel DiTommaso

Undergrad co-op student (Spring 2020)
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Michael Melvin Veenstra

Undergrad co-op student (Spring 2020)
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Sarah Mayer

Undergrad co-op student (Fall 2019)
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Niel Mistry

Undergrad co-op student (Fall 2019)
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Joshua Da Costa

undergrad co-op student (Spring and Fall 2019)
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Duale Omar

Undergrad co-op student (Spring 2019)
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Natasha Willis

Undergraduate co-op student (Winter 2019)
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Daniel Francis Julien Neitzert

Undergrad co-op student (Winter 2019)
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Luyao Wang

Undergraduate Researcher, Physics 437 project (Fall 2018)
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Kaleb Ruscitti

Undergrad co-op student (Winter 2018)
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Ilango Maran

Visiting undergraduate student, Dec 2017- Mar 2018
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Louisa (Ruixue) Huang

Undergraduate researcher, USEQIP program (Spring 2017)
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Jieren Deng

Undergraduate Researcher (Spring 2017)
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Tony Kappen

Undergraduate co-op student (Winter 2017, Nanotechnology)
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