Principal and Senior Investigators
Daniel Oblak
Assistant Professor
Trying to be on top of it all
Vahid Salari
Adjunct Assistant Professor/Research Associate
Quantum Biology
Postdoctoral Scholars
Ashutosh Singh
Postdoctoral Scholar
Quantum light sources
Yunhong Gong
Postdoctoral Scholar
Quantum satellite communication
Nasser Gohari Kamel
Postdoctoral Scholar
Light-matter interfaces, Quantum light-sources
Ali Golestani Shishvan
Postdoctoral Scholar
Quantum key distribution, Quantum light-sources and detection
Graduate Students
Farhad Rasekh
PhD candidate
Quantum memory
Leili Ismaeilifar
PhD student
Quantum light sources
Ujjwal Gautam
PhD candidate
Quantum transduction
Vishnu Seshan
PhD student
Quantum biology
Anuj Sethia
PhD student
Quantum Key Distribution
Ziheng Chang
PhD student
Satellite ground-station
Ismail Akkouche
MSc student
Quantum Key Distribution
Arsalan Mansourzadeh
MSc student
Solid State Light Sources
Krystifer Campos Munos
MSc student
Quantum key distribution
Perrine Gormond
MSc student (visiting)
Quantum Optics
Undergraduate Students, Research Assistants, and General Associates
Nicholas Holoboff
Bachelor thesis project (Phys 598)
Quantum transduction
Carlos Hanon Fernandez
Bachelor thesis project (Phys 598)
Quantum satellite communication
Davi Pereira
Bachelor thesis project (Phys 598)
Quantum cryptography
Hanen Chenini
General Associate from QTi
Quantum cryptography
Ali Seif
General Associate from QTi
Quantum cryptography
Bharat Kuchhal
General Associate from QTi
Quantum cryptography
Support Staff
Melissa Wrubleski
Project Specialist/Group Administrator
Keeping track of it all
QCloudLab historical group photos
QCloudLab alumni
Sourabh Kumar
Postdoctoral Scholar
Next step: Faculy position
Lana Frankle
Postdoctoral Scholar
Next step:
Snehasis Addy
MSc student
Next step: PhD at UMass Amherst
Mathew Yastremski
MSc student
Next step: PhD at U. Calgary
Brenna Bordeniuk
Visiting BSc student
Next step: MSc
Sean McNanny
Bachelor thesis project (Phys 598)
Next step: MSc @ U. Calgary
Joel Ozeroff
Bachelor thesis project (Phys 598)
Next step: Radiation Protection Surveyor @ TRIUMF
Parisa Behjat Khatouni
Research Assistant
Next step:
Amir Ahadi
Research Assistant and MSc student
Next step: System Operations Engineer @ AltaLink, Co-founder @ FlexConnect Energy Inc.
Marcus Demierre
Bachelor thesis project (Phys 598)
Next step: MSc @ U. Calgary
Jamal Mohammad Khani
Visiting MSc student
Next step: Photonics Engineer @ Xanadu, PhD @ UBC
Nick Kuzmin
Research Assistant - Quantum Key Distribution
Next step: MSc @ U. Calgary
Ayesha Iqbal
Undergraduate summer research student - bio-photon detection
Next step: BSc @ U. Calgary
Gabriella Gelinas
Bachelor thesis project (Phys 598) - quantum light-matter interfaces
Next step: MSc student @ U. Calgary/TRIUMPH
Luis Abalo Sangervasi
Bachelor thesis project (Phys 598) - Cavity locking
Next step: MSc student @ McMaster U.
Kora-At Petchrat
Visiting undergraduate research student (Prince of Songkhla University) - Quantum light sources
Next step: BSc @ Prince of Songkhla University
Jordan Smith
MSc Student - Quantum Key Distribution
Next step: Founder and CEO of Quantized Technologies Inc.
Sara Shafiei Alavijeh
MSc Student - Quantum light-matter interfaces
Next step: Associate Researcher @
Abdullah Maqsood
Co-op student (U Waterloo) - Quantum light-sources
Next step: Undergraduate student at U. Waterloo
Amit Shalev
Undergraduate research student - Quantum biology
Next step:
Mobina Jamali
Undergraduate summer student - Quantum biology
Next step: Undergraduate student at University of Calgary
Simon Hus
Undergraduate summer student - Quantum cryptography
Next step: Undergraduate engineering student at University of Calgary
Erhan Saglamyurek
Senior Research Associate - Quantum memory, Quantum transducer, Rare-earth ion materials
Next step: Resesarch scientist at Lawrence Berkley National Lab
Karabee Batta
Visiting Undergraduate Student - Quantum satellite ground-station
Next step: Graduate studies
Abhijeet Alase
Postdoc (co-supervised) - Quantum satellite ground-station
Next step: Postdoc positon
Quinn Rupert
Undergraduate Student
Next step: Undergraduate student at University of Calgary
Alireza Poostindouz
PhD student (co-supervised)
Next step: Huawei Canada
Mahmood Noweir
PhD Candidate (co-supervised)
Next step: Postdoc at University of Calgary (group of Fadhel Ghannouchi)
Rana Zibakhsh Shabgahi
Research Assistant
Next step: MSc at University of British Columbia
Kim Owen
Master's Student
Next step: PhD at York University (Stefano Pirandola) and Toshiba Cambridge Labs (Andrew Shields)
Pascal Lefebvre
PhD Student
Next step: Postdoc at CNRS, Sorbonne Université – Campus Pierre et Marie Curie
Yufeng Wu
PhD Student (visiting)
Next step: PhD at Yale University (Hong Tang)
Yan Juan Xiong
Master's Student
Next step: Research and development at OZ Optics, Ottawa
Rana Prathap Simh
Visiting Undergraduate Student
Next step: MSc at IIT Kharagpur, Quantum Programming Intern at Multiverse Computing, Co-founder of IndiQ
Prathwiraj Umesh
Master's Student (visiting)
Next step: PhD student with Rupert Ursin at Institute For Quantum Optics And Quantum Information Vienna
Jun Zhang
Postdoctoral Scholar
Next step: Postdoc with Yiqing Lu at Macquarie University
Hridya Meppully Sasidharan
Visiting MSc student
Next step: Complete degree at S.V. National Institute of Technology, then PhD student at TU Delft, group of W. Tittel
Sarvin Sepassi
Phys-599 Student
Next step: Job hunting
Jacob Davidson
Visiting PhD student
Next step: PhD student at TU Delft, group of W. Tittel
Gustavo Castro Do Amaral
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow
Next step: Postdoc at TU Delft, group of W. Tittel