Gilles Brassard#
| Email: | brassard 'at' iro.umontreal.ca |
| Membership Number: | 3141 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Main Country of Residence: | CANADA |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Username: | gbrassard |
| Elected: | 2011 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing (renewed 2008)
- 1988 Professor, Université de Montréal
- 1994 Directeur de recherche associé du CNRS, École Normale Supérieure, Paris (6 months)
- 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
- 2020 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"
- 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
