Richard Erwin Cleve is a professor

Professor

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 of computer science

Computer science

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 at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science is the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Part of the Faculty of Mathematics, the school comprises 77 faculty members, nearly 300 graduate students, approximately 2100 undergraduates, and 55 staff members.-History:In 1965,...

 at the University of Waterloo

University of Waterloo

The University of Waterloo is a comprehensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles, and has since grown to an institution of more than 30,000 students, faculty, and staff...

, where he holds the Institute for Quantum Computing

Institute for Quantum Computing

The Institute for Quantum Computing, or IQC, located in Waterloo, Canada, is an affiliate research institute of the University of Waterloo with a multidisciplinary approach to the field of quantum information processing.-IQC's Mission:...

 Chair in quantum computing, and an associate member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

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Education

He obtained his BMath and MMath from the University of Waterloo, and his Ph.D.

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 in 1989 at the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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 under the supervision of Charles Rackoff

Charles Rackoff

Charles Weill Rackoff is an American cryptologist. Born and raised in New York City, Rackoff attended MIT as both an undergraduate and graduate student, and earned a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1974. He spent a year as a postdoctoral scholar at INRIA in France.He currently works at the...

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Research

He was the recipient of the 2008 CAP

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/CRM

Centre de Recherches Mathématiques

The Centre de Recherches Mathématiques is the first mathematical research institute in Canada. It was founded in 1969, and was recognized as a national research center for the mathematical sciences in 1984....

 Prize in Theoretical

Theoretical physics

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 and Mathematical Physics

Mathematical physics

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, awarded for "fundamental results in quantum information theory, including the structure of quantum algorithms and the foundations of quantum communication complexity." He has authored several highly cited papers in quantum information, and is one of the creators of the field of quantum communication complexity. He is also one of the founding managing editors of the journal Quantum Information & Computation, a founding fellow of the Quantum Information Processing program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

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, and a Team Leader at QuantumWorks.