Debbie Leung is a University Research Chair at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, where she is also affiliated with the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization.
[4][5][6][7] Leung earned her Bachelor of Science in mathematics and physics from Caltech in 1995.
She received her PhD under doctoral advisors Yoshihisa Yamamoto and Isaac Chuang at Stanford.
[6][3] In her PhD thesis, entitled "Towards Robust Quantum Computation", she demonstrated the surprising result that approximate quantum error-correcting codes can outperform their exact counterparts.
[8] In 2005, she won a 10-year Tier II Canada Research Chair in Quantum Communications.