It has been just over a year since Assistant Professor Ben Reichardt became a Faculty member with the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Reichardt previously studied mathematics as an undergraduate at California’s Stanford University, and later earned a PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Umesh Vazirani. In his doctoral work, he gave the first proof that fault-tolerance schemes based on noise detection could in fact function in the presence of noise, and established a lower bound on the noise threshold. He was a postdoctoral scholar at the Institute for Quantum Information at the California Institute of Technology from 2006 to 2008. He joined the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) in 2008, where he is cross-appointed with the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science.
With research that combines both theoretical computer science and quantum physics, Professor Benjamin Reichardt focuses on learning more about quantum control and fault tolerance, and quantum algorithms. His research is currently focused on topologically protected fault-tolerance schemes and on new characterizations of quantum query complexity.
2009 July 16
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Tel: 519-888-4567 x33293
Fax: 519-885-1208
Contact | Feedback: cs-webmaster@cs.uwaterloo.ca | David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science | Faculty of Mathematics
Last modified: Thursday, 16-Jul-2009 15:59:17 EDT
