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David Cory
(PhD Case Western Reserve University, 1987) is jointly appointed with the Institute for Quantum Computing
and the University of Waterloo. He held research positions at the University of Nijmegen in The Netherlands, the National
Research Council at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He also led research and development activities in nuclear magnetic resonance at Bruker Instruments. Since 1996, Cory
has been exploring the experimental challenges of building small quantum processors based on nuclear spins, electron
spins, neutrons, persistent current superconducting devices, and optics. In 2010, he was named the Canada Excellence
Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing. Cory chairs the advisory committee for the Quantum Information
Processing program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).
Matthew Johnson
(PhD University of California, Santa Cruz, 2007) began a joint appointment with Perimeter and York
University in August 2012. Prior to that, he was a Moore Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology and
a postdoctoral researcher at Perimeter. Johnson is a cosmologist whose interdisciplinary research seeks to understand
how the universe began, how it evolved, and where it is headed. To this end, he designs data analysis algorithms to
confront fundamental theory with observations of the cosmic microwave background radiation. In 2012, Johnson was
awarded a New Frontiers in Astronomy and Cosmology grant from the University of Chicago and the John Templeton
Foundation.
Raymond Laflamme
(PhD University of Cambridge, 1988) is a founding faculty member of Perimeter Institute and
founding Director of the Institute for Quantum Computing, where he is jointly appointed. He held research positions at
the University of British Columbia and Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge, before moving to the Los Alamos
Research Laboratory in 1992, where his interests shifted from cosmology to quantum computing. Since the mid-
1990s, Laflamme has elucidated theoretical approaches to quantum error correction and in turn implemented some in
experiments. Laflamme has been Director of the Quantum Information Processing program at the Canadian Institute
for Advanced Research (CIFAR) since 2003. He is a Fellow of CIFAR, the American Physical Society, and the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, and holds the Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information. With
colleagues, he founded Universal Quantum Devices, a start-up commercializing spin-offs of quantum research.
Sung-Sik Lee
(PhD Pohang University of Science and Technology, 2000) joined Perimeter in 2011 in a joint appointment
with McMaster University, where he is an Associate Professor. He previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at
the Pohang University of Science and Technology, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Kavli Institute for
Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Lee’s research focuses on strongly interacting quantum
many-body systems using quantum field theory, as well as the intersections between condensed matter and high
energy physics. His recent work has included using gauge theory as a lens through which to examine the phenomenon
of fractionalization, efforts to apply the AdS/CFT correspondence from string theory to quantum chromodynamics and
condensed matter, and building a non-perturbative approach to understanding unconventional metallic states of matter.
Roger Melko
(PhD University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005) joined Perimeter in September 2012, while retaining
his appointment with the University of Waterloo, where he has been since 2007. Prior to that, he was a Wigner Fellow
at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2005-07). Melko is a condensed matter theorist who develops new computational
methods and algorithms to study strongly correlated many-body systems, focusing on emergent phenomena, ground
state phases, phase transitions, quantum criticality, and entanglement. Among his honours, he has received an Early
Researcher Award, the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Young Scientist Prize in Computational Physics
from the Council on Computational Physics, and the Canada Research Chair in Computational Quantum Many-Body
Physics (Tier 2).