Team & Management
Sharareh Taghipour
Associate Professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Physical Asset Management, Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Mechatronics Engineering Toronto Metropolitan University; PI
Trung Q. Duong
Professor and Canada Excellence Research Chair in Next Generation Communications Technologies, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Co-PI
Octavia A. Dobre
Professor and Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Ubiquitous Connectivity, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Co-PI
Hans-Arno Jacobsen
Professor and Jeffrey Skoll Chair in Computer Networks and Innovation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control, University of Toronto; Co-PI
Stephen L. Smith
Professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Autonomous Systems, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo; Co-PI
Peter Lewis
Associate Professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Trustworthy AI, Faculty of Business and Information Technology, Ontario Tech University, Co-PI
Bilal Farooq
Associate Professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Disruptive Transportation, Department of Civil Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University; Co-PI
Atty Mashatan
Associate Professor Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity, Department of Information Technology Management, Toronto Metropolitan University; Co-PI
Stefanos Kourtis
Assistant Professor and Québec Research Chair in Quantum Information, Department of Physics and Institut Quantique, University of Sherbrooke; Co-PI
Borzou Rostami
Associate Professor and CPA Chair in Business Analytics, School of Business, University of Alberta; Co-PI
Shohini Ghose
Professor, NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering and CTO of the Quantum Algorithms Institute, Department of Physics and Computer Science, Wilfrid Laurier University; Co-PI
Arian Hosseinzadeh
Program Coordinator
Partner organizations
Program Director
Dr. Sharareh Taghipour
Institutional Leads
Dr. Taghipour (TMU)
Dr. Smith (UW)
Dr. Jacobsen (UofT)
Dr. Lewis (OTU)
Dr. Kourtis (UdeS)
Dr. Ghose (WLU)
Dr. Rostami (UA)
Dr. Duong (MUN)
Theme Co-leads
ML for optimizations
Drs. Rostami & Taghipour
Quantum optimization
Drs. Ghose & Farooq
QML and AI decision making
Drs. Duong & Jacobsen
TBA
Sharareh Taghipour (PD)
Associate Professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Physical Asset Management, Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Mechatronics Engineering Toronto Metropolitan University; PI
Jiashu (Jessie) Zhao
Assistant professor, Department of Physics and Computer Science, Wilfrid Laurier University
Sean Wagner
Research Scientist, IBM Quantum Technical Ambassador, and IBM Accelerated Discovery Ambassador at IBM Canada (external link, opens in new window) Innovation Team
Daniel Felipe Nino
Research Engagement Lead at Xanadu (external link, opens in new window)
Nikolaj Van Omme
CEO and coFounder of Funartech (external link, opens in new window)
Jenn MacLean
Partnerships Lead, Horizon3 Labs at Unilever (external link, opens in new window)
Reza Faieghi
Assistant Professor and Director of the Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory (AVL), Department of Aerospace Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University
Emmanuel Haven
Professor and Alex Faseruk Chair in Financial Management, Director of the Centre for Quantum Social and Cognitive Science, Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Saman Hasanzadeh Amin
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Mechatronics Engineering Toronto Metropolitan University
Cory Searcy
Professor and Assistant Vice-President (AVP), International, Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Mechatronics Engineering Toronto Metropolitan University
Arnold Yuan
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University
Stephen Jackson
Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Information Technology
Stephen Marsh
Professor, Faculty of Business and Information Technology