Gilles Brassard#
Photo: Christina Buchmann
| Membership Number: | 3141 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CANADA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~brassard/en/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information Science (renewed 2008, 2015)
- 1988 Professor, Université de Montréal
- 1983 Associate Professor, Université de Montréal
- 1979 Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal
Fields of Scholarship
- Quantum Information Science
- Quantum and classical cryptography
- Quantum entanglement and non-locality as new computation and communication resource
- Quantum communication complexity
- Quantum computing
- Quantum teleportation
- Foundations of quantum mechanics
- Computer privacy
- Theoretical computer science
Honours and Awards
- Doctor Honoris Causa: ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule), 2010; University of Ottawa, 2014; Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, 2015
- 2019 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences
(together with Charles H. Bennett and Peter Shor) "for their fundamental role in the development of quantum computation and cryptography"
- 2019 Micius Quantum Prize
- February 2019 Inaugural Chaire du Québec, Académie royale de Belgique
- 2018 Wolf Prize for Physics (together with Charles H. Bennett) "for founding and advancing the fields of Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Teleportation".
- 2017 Officer of the Ordre national du Québec
- 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science, CS-Can/Info-Can:the Canadian society for computer science
- 2013 Officer of the Order of Canada
- 2013 Fellow of the Royal Society of London
- 2013 Prix d’excellence, FRONT
- 2012 Creation of NSERC Gilles Brassard Doctoral Prize for Interdisciplinary Research
- 2012 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate (their “picks” for the Nobel Prize)
- 2011 Killam Prize for Natural Sciences, Canada Council
- 2010 Doctorate Honoris Causa, ETH Zürich
- 2009 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering (highest scientific honour in Canada), NSERC
- 2008 Personality of the year 2007 in information technology, Federation de l'informatique du Québec, OCTAS
- 2006 Award of excellence, NSERC
- 2006 Fellow, International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)
- 2006 Rank Prize in Opto-Electronics, United Kingdom
- 2002 Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
- 2000 Prix Marie-Victorin (highest scientific recognition by Government of Québec)
- 1998 Foreign member, Latvian Academy of Sciences
- 1997 Killam Research Fellow, Canada Council
- 1996 Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Science
- 1995 Scientist of the Year, La Presse (leading daily newspaper in Montréal)
- 1994 Steacie Prize, National Research Council of Canada
- 1992 Prix Urgel-Archambault, ACFAS
- 1992 E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, NSERC
