Dr Daniel Gottesman

Faculty

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

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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