Roger Melko

Roger Melko is a theoretical physicist at the University of Waterloo and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He earned his PhD from the University of California Santa Barbara, studying computational strategies for quantum matter. He then spent two years at Oak Ridge National Lab running quantum simulations on some of the largest computers on the planet, before returning to Canada to take up his professorship. His current research explores the emerging relationship between artificial intelligence and quantum computers. He is the recipient of two prestigious research medals from the Canadian Association of Physicists, and was part of the championship team that won the North American Cup pond hockey tournament in 2017.