DG
Faculty
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
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N. Waterloo
Ontario
N2L 2Y5
Canada
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Background
Daniel Gottesman received his PhD in 1997 from Caltech, where he was a student of John Preskill. He then held postdoctoral positions at Los Alamos National Lab, Microsoft Research, and UC Berkeley (as a long-term CMI Prize Fellow for the Clay Mathematics Institute).
Affiliations
University of Waterloo (adjunct)
Research Interests
He currently works on quantum computation, particularly quantum error correction, fault-tolerant quantum computation, quantum cryptography, and quantum complexity. I am best known for developing the stabilizer code formalism for creating and describing a large class of quantum codes, and for work on performing quantum gates using quantum teleportation.
Positions Held
- 2002 - present Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Faculty Member
- 2001 - 20002 Theory group, Computer Science Department, UC Berkeley Long-Term Clay Mathematics Institute Prize Fellow
- 1999 - 2000 Theory group, Microsoft Research Postdoctoral Researcher
- 1997 - 1999 T-6 and CIC-3 groups, Los Alamos National Laboratory Director-Funded Postdoctoral Fellow
Awards
- Promoted to CIFAR Fellow in Quantum Information Processing program
- Named as CIFAR Scholar in Quantum Information Processing program
- Named to 2003 TR100: Top Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review
- Long-Term Clay Mathematics Institute Prize Fellowship
- National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
- Elected Junior Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard
- Member of 1988 U.S. Physics Olympiad Team
- National Merit Scholar
- Participant in 1987 U.S. Math Olympiad Program
- 17th Place in 1987 U.S. Mathematical Olympiad