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Education
| Sept. 89- June 94 | Ph.D. in Physics, Caltech, Pasadena CA Thesis Advisor: Prof. John Preskill |
| Sept. 89- June 91 | M.S. in Physics, Caltech, Pasadena CA. GPA: 4.0/4.0 |
| Oct. 86- June 89 | B.A. in Mathematics, Trinity College, Cambridge University, UK Triple First Class Honors: 87, 88, 89. M.A. in Math awarded in 1993. |
Career Highlight
My current research interest is quantum information processing, particularly quantum cryptography. I was among the first to demonstrate the impossibility of a whole class of quantum cryptographic protocols including quantum bit commitment, thus correcting an erroneous long-held belief in the field. In a paper in “Science”, I and H. F. Chau provided a proof of security of quantum key distribution, thus solving a long-standing problem. Both results have been widely cited and also reported in the scientific press including “Science” and “Science News”. (See, for example, Charles Seife, Science 1997, May 16; 276: 1034 (in Research News) and Charles Bennett and Peter Shor, Science 1999, April 30, 284; 747-748. (in Perspectives).)
Recently, my work on decoy state quantum key distribution, which appeared in Physical Review Letters, has attracted a lot of scientific attention and has been highlighted in a New Scientists article (Nov. 13, 2004). “This is one of the major recent advances in quantum cryptography. It should be relatively easy to implement.” Indeed, my group has now provided the first experimental demonstration of the idea.
I am a Founding Managing Editor of a leading journal, “Quantum Information and Computation” (QIC) in the field. The journal has been positively reviewed in the journal ``Nature’’. (See, Isaac Chung, Nature 420, p. 25. (7 Nov. 2002) (in Journal Review). ) Until Nov. 2002, I was the Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President for MagiQ Technologies, Inc., a company which is marketing commercial quantum cryptographic products (www.magiqtech.com ). Moreover, I have co-edited two books, one of which is a standard reference in the field and has been positively reviewed in the journal ``Nature’’. I have written survey articles in leading scientific magazines (“Physics Today” and “Physics World”). In particular, my Physics Today article has been listed as a notable article in “The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2001” edited by Ed. O Wilson. I am a co-inventor of one US patent, a European patent and several pending international patents.
I have been on the organizing or advisory and award committees of key conferences including QCMC 2000, QCMC'02, EQIS 2003, EQIS 2004, EQIS 2005, AQIS 06 and IEEE ISIT 2006.
I won four prestigious awards in 2003: I am a Canada Research Chair holder, an Ontario Outstanding Researcher, a co-winner of the year 2003 Outstanding Young Researcher Award by the Overseas Chinese Physics Association and a PREA (Premier’s Research Excellence Award) award holder. Earlier in my career, I won a Prince Philip Scholarship (a three-year merit-based full-cost scholarship) for studying at Trinity College, Cambridge University where I won Triple First Class Honors as well as a number of college prizes.
My research group currently contains two postdocs, five graduate students and a number of undergraduates as well as a fully equipped experimental/implementation lab in quantum communication.
Work Experience
| Jan. 03- present | Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Physics; & Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of Toronto |
| Oct. 99-Nov. 02 | Senior Vice President, Research and Development, MagiQ MagiQ Technologies, Inc. New York, NY |
| July 97-August 99 | Senior Member of Technical Staff, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol, UK |
| Oct. 96-June 97 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol, UK |
| Sept. 94-August 96 | Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ |
Honors and Awards
| 2005 | Scholar of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR) |
2003 |
Canada Research Chair Award |
2003 |
Ontario Outstanding Researcher Award |
2003 |
Co-winner, 2003 Outstanding Young Researcher Award by Overseas Chinese Physics Association (for outstanding young ethnic Chinese physicists working anywhere outside Asia) |
2003 |
PREA (Premier’s Research Excellence Award) |
1996-1997 |
Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (offered) |
1996 |
1851 Exhibition Fellowship (to Oxford University) (offered) |
1996 |
Hewlett-Packard Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, HP Labs, Bristol (accepted) |
1987-1989 |
Triple First Class Honors, Cambridge University |
1989 |
Mathison Prize, Trinity College, Cambridge
University
The highest ranking student in applied mathematics |
1988 |
Senior Scholar, Trinity College, Cambridge University |
1987 |
Osborne Prize, Trinity College, Cambridge University The highest ranking student in applied mathematics |
1987 |
Junior Scholar, Trinity College, Cambridge University |
1986 |
Prince Philip Scholarship, Friends of Cambridge University in Hong Kong One of the six recipients of full-cost merit-based three-year scholarships to Cambridge. |
SELECTED MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS/ACTIVITIES
Founding Managing Editor of the journal “Quantum Information and Computation” (QIC), a leading journal in the field which has been positively reviewed in “Nature ”. (Isaac Chuang, Nature 420, p. 25, Journal Review.)
http://www.rintonpress.com/journals/qic.html
Technical Program Committee Member of IEEE ISIT (International Symposium on Information Theory) 2006. This is the most important conference in information theory in the world.
Member of the Advisory and Award Committee of the conference series “Quantum Communications, Measurements and Computation” QCM&C (for the years 2000 and 2002), which is a key conference in quantum information. We selected the winners of a prestigious prize in quantum communications and measurements.
Co-organizer of Fields Institute Conference on Quantum Information and Quantum Control, 2004 http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/04-05/quantumIC/
Program Committee of EQIS’ 03, EQIS’ 04 and EQIS' 05, http://www.qci.jst.go.jp/eqis05/ ,which is the main Pacific conference in quantum information.
Program co-chair for the conference “Quantum Optics in Computing and Communication” organized by SPIE and Chinese Optical Society in Oct. 2002 and Oct. 2004.
Industrial Advisor to EQCSPOT (European Quantum Cryptography and Single Photon Optical Technologies) Project, 1998, https://www.cordis.lu/esprit/src/28139.html
Affiliate Member of the Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics, Waterloo.
Prepared two special issues for the journals Fort. de. Phys and QIC (with Sam Braustein and Jeff Shapiro respectively). Currently preparing a third special issue for QIC.
Official Collaborator of DURINT proposal on “Novel Approaches to Quantum Computation Using Solid-State qubits” by SUNY, Stony Brook (including Dima Averin and James Lukins), University of Kansas, TRW, NIST and MagiQ, awarded in 2001.
Principal Investigator (with Richard Jozsa, Sandu Popescu, and Tim Spiller) of a research proposal approved for funding by the US Army Research Office in 1998, for two postdocs over three years. This was apparently the only proposal in quantum information processing submitted outside the US that was accepted for funding. Hewlett-Packard finally declined to receive the funding for internal reasons.
Co-investigator of Hong Kong Government RGC Research Grant,
HKU 7095/97F (with HF Chau of University of Hong Kong) Sept. 97-Aug. 99.
Member of scientific proposal “Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Computation” funded by European Science Foundation, co-ordinated by Dr. Martin Plenio, 1999.
Member of UK Quantum Computing Network, co-ordinated by Prof. Richard Jozsa. 1999.
Member of UK Quantum Optics Network, co-ordinated by Prof. Peter Knight. 1999.
REFEREEING
Referee for top journals in physics, mathematics, computer science and engineering including
i) Physical Review Letters
ii) Physical Review A
iii) IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
iv) Journal of Computer and System Sciences (full papers for STOC)
v) Journal of Cryptology
Referee for top conferences including IEEE ISIT and Crypto.
Referee for American Mathematical Society Publication ``Mathematical Reviews''.
Refereed a number of NSERC Discovery and infra-structure grants. Refereed a major multi-institutional research proposal in quantum computing.
SELECTED INVITED CONFERENCE TALKS
International Conference on Quantum Foundation and Technology: Frontier and Future, Hangzhou, China, August 2006.
Gordon Research Conference, Italy, May 2006.
Caltech Workshop “Classical and Quantum Security”, Dec. 2005.
Benasque Workshop on Quantum Information, June-July 2005.
CIAR meeting, Halifax, May 2005.
IQI Seminar, Caltech, March 2005.
Plenary Speaker. First Asia-Pacific Conference on Quantum Information Science, Taiwan, Dec. 2004
Special Week on Quantum Cryptography, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK, Sept. 2004.
Quantum Information Theory: Present Status and Future Directions, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK, Sept. 2004.
Conference on Quantum Information and Quantum Control, Fields Institute, Toronto, July 2004.
Eastern Formosa Summer School, June, 2004
Workshop on Quantum Information, Tainan, Taiwan, June, 2004.
RSA Japan Conference, May-June, 2004.
Fields Institute Workshop on Quantum Geometry and Quantum Computing, May 2004.
Snowmass Conference on Quantum Electronics, Utah, Jan. 2004.
Photonics North, Montreal, May 2003, http://www.hospitalite.com/pn2003/pn_welcome.html
Workshop on “Cryptographic Reduction in Classical and Quantum Cryptography”, Montreal, May 2003.
James H. Simons Conference, Stony Brook, New York, USA, May 2003
Workshop on Quantum Information, Cryptography and Error Correction MSRI, Berkeley, Nov. 2002
Physics Society Japan (JPS) Autumn Meeting, Nagoya, Japan, Sept. 2002.
EQIS’ 02 (ERATO Quantum Information Science), Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 2002.
Feynman Festival, College Park, M.D., August 2002.
Quantum Communications, Measurements and Computing (QCM&C) 2002, Boston, July 2002.
Quantum Device Technology workshop, Clarkson University, May 2002
RSA Conference 2002, San Jose, CA, Feb. 2002
EuroWorkshop on ``Quantum Computing Theory’’. Torino, Italy, June, 2001.
Quantum Communications, Measurements and Computing (QCM&C) 2000, Capri, Italy, June, 2000
Instructional Course in Quantum Computing, Edinburgh, UK, March 2000.
Quantum Information Processing 2000 Workshop, Montreal, CA, Dec. 1999
Princeton workshop on ``quantum cryptography”, Princeton, NJ, Nov., 1999
Issac Newton Institute workshop on ``Physics of Information’’, Cambridge, UK, June 1999.
Dagstuhl seminars on quantum computation, Dagstuhl, Germany, 1998.
[I have also given many invited Colloquium talks and Lectures.]
CURRENTLY FUNDED PROPOSALS
Start-up grant University of Toronto |
| CIPI (Canadian Institute for Photonics Innovations) |
| NSERC Discovery grant |
| Canada Research Chair |
| Canada Foundation for Innovation |
| Ontario Innovation Trust |
| PREA |
| CIAR (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) |
[For past funding information, see “selected memberships of scientific organizations/activities”.]
