David Cory

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  Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing

  University of Waterloo

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• “With Cory as chair, the Institute for Quantum Computing and the University of Waterloo will consolidate our leading position to help Canada advance in the international quest to build quantum devices.”

  ― David Johnston, past president, University of Waterloo

• Forming the Building Blocks for Quantum Computers

  Quantum information processing promises to touch nearly every aspect of our lives, as researchers attempt to harness the very building blocks of nature—quantum particles that underlie everything—to build unprecedented new technologies.

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  Researchers in this new field are working to engineer the first generation of quantum computers—machines that, if built, will vastly outperform their "classical" counterparts. Because these devices will harness the remarkable properties of quantum mechanics, they will have the potential to solve problems deemed beyond the capabilities of even today's most powerful supercomputers.

  David Cory, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing, is a pioneer in this cutting–edge field. Cory is engineering the tools needed to navigate, control and exploit the quantum world. Called quantum sensors and actuators, these tools will form the building blocks for future quantum computers and technologies we have only begun to envision.

  Cory is leading a new experimental research centre at Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing—an international centre of excellence in quantum information science, which was launched thanks to the vision of Mike Lazaridis, co–CEO of Research in Motion (creator of the BlackBerry).

  Over the past decade, the engineering of quantum systems has become a reality. Researchers are now aiming to deploy actual quantum devices. Canada, home to the Institute for Quantum Computing and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, has established itself as a leader in quantum information research. Cory's work at the Institute for Quantum Computing will help turn this research into practical quantum devices.

• Biography

  David Cory is a leading global innovator in experimental quantum physics and quantum engineering, whose work is already being used in a range of applications, from the medical field to the oil industry.

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  Before accepting his Canada Excellence Research Chair at the University of Waterloo, Cory was professor of nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he made significant breakthroughs in quantum information processing and other fields by advancing nuclear magnetic resonance methods. He is also an associate researcher at Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and is chair of the advisory committee for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

  Cory holds a PhD in physical chemistry from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. He also held two postdoctoral fellowships, through which he developed instrumentation and methods for magnetic resonance and imaging of solids. He held the first at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and the second as a National Research Council fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.

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