Professor Barry Sanders
Affiliations
Scientific Director of Quantum City
Vice President Research Office
Contact information
Phone number
Office: +1 (403) 210-8462
Location
Office: SB303
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Background
Educational Background
D.Sc. Quantum Information Science, Imperial College London, 2016
Diploma of Imperial College Physics, Imperial College London, 1988
PhD Physics, University of London, 1987
Diploma of Imperial College Mathematical Physics, Imperial College London, 1985
BSc Physics Honours, University of Calgary, 1984
Biography
Barry Sanders, who holds two Diplomas of Imperial College, a 1987 Doctor of Philosophy from the University of London and a 2018 career-achievement Doctor of Science from Imperial College London, is Scientific Director of Calgary’s “Quantum City”, hosted by the University of Calgary and tasked with building a quantum innovation ecosystem. His postdoctoral positions were at the Australian National University and the University of Queensland in Australia and Waikato University in New Zealand, and he was a professor at Macquarie University Sydney for 12 years before moving back to his Alma Mater University of Calgary in 2003. Barry’s theoretical research includes quantum sensing and metrology, quantum and quantum-resilient communication, quantum computing and quantum optics. He held numerous distinguished international visiting professorships and affiliations in Austria, Canada, China, Germany, India, Israel, South Korea and the USA, and is a Scientist with the Creative Destruction Lab sites at the Universities of Toronto and Calgary. Sanders is Chair of the Board for Deep Tech Canada, an affiliate of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, a Scientific Board Member for the Banff International Research Station and served as an Expert for the Canadian Council of Academies. He is on the advisory boards for CERN’s Open Quantum Institute and for the Google XPRIZE in quantum computing and undertakes outreach in the developing world including teaching and training in Africa, Central Asia and South America and has created study opportunities from graduate students from underserved regions. Sanders is co-lead of the International Research Network “Canada-France Quantum Alliance” and serves on numerous expert panels in Canada, the USA and the European Union plus several European countries and is on standards committees for both quantum and nano tech. He was Editor-in-Chief of New Journal of Physics and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the UK Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society, and Optica, and received the City of Calgary International Achievement Award in 2022.
Research
Areas of Research
Awards
- Killam Annual Professor, The University of Calgary. 2017
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, 2010
- Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, 2010
- Faculty of Science Award of Excellence in Research, University of Calgary, 2008
- American Physical Society, 2006
- Optical Society of America, 2005
- Affiliate, Centre for Information Security and Cryptography, Unversity of Calgary, 2004
- Affiliate, Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control, University of Toronto, 2004
- Appointed Associate of CIAR Program on Quantum Information Processing, 2004
- Associate, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Canada, 2004
- Associate of CIFAR Quantum Information Program, 2004
- Elected Fellow in the Australian Institute of Physics, 2004
- Elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (U.K.), 2004
- Elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America, 2004
- Institute of Physics (U.K.), 2004
- Optical Society of America, 2004
- Affiliate, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2003
- Fellow, Australian Institute of Physics, 2001
- Australian Institute of Physics, 2000
- Elected Fellow in the Australian Institute of Physics, 2000
- Certificate in Leadership Program for Heads, Deans and Administrative Managers, 1999
- Member - Canadian Association of Physicists, 1998
- Certificate in Learning and Management Strand, 1997
Publications
- Robustness of Learning-Assisted Adaptive Quantum-Enhanced Metrology in the Presence of Noise. Barry C Sanders; Peter Wittek; Pantita Palittapongarnpim*. IEEE. 294-299. (2017)
- Some examples of sum uncertainty relations for compact classical Lie algebra. Namrata Shukla*; Barry C Sanders; Hubert de Guise; Lorenzo Maccone. 104090S-1 to 104090S-7. (2017)
- Coincidence rates and permutation symmetry. Hubert de Guise; Barry Cyril Sanders. SPIE. 1040903-1 to 1040903-8. (2017)
- Reinforcement Learning for Quantum Metrology via Quantum Control. Pantita Palittapongarnpim*; Seyed S Vedaie*; Barry C Sanders. IEEE. 163-164. (2018)
- Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Optical Quantum-Enhanced Metrology. Pantita Palittapongarnpim*; Seyed S Vedaie*; Barry Cyril Sanders. Optical Society of America. STu5H.4. (2018)
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