Phillip Kaye is a Doctoral student in the department of Combinatorics and Optimization.

Email: prkaye@iqc.ca
curriculum vitae

SHORT BIO

Phillip did his undergraduate degree in Systems Design Engineering and his Master's degree in Combinatorics and Optimization, both at the University of Waterloo. He was awarded the George Dufault Medal for Excellence in Communication at his engineering convocation. For his PhD studies, Phillip has been awarded a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Post Graduate Scholarship (NSERC: PGSB). His master's thesis is entitled "A logical characterisation of the computational complexity class BPP and a quantum algorithm for concentrating entanglement."

During the summer of 2000, before starting his Master's programme, Phillip worked for Research in Motion (RIM) Inc., developing cryptographic software for the Blackberry wireless email device. His work at RIM continued on a part time basis during his master's studies.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Phillip's current interest is in provable security in quantum cryptography. During his Master's studies, Phillip gave the first logical characterisation of the probabilistic complexity class BPP. He also did work on strategies for efficient quantum algorithms for state generation, and entanglement concentration.

PAPERS:

"Quantum networks for concentrating entanglement", P. Kaye, M. Mosca.
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, Volume 34, Number 35, pp 6939-6948.
(also appeared as a CACR technical report)

"Quantum networks for generating arbitrary quantum states," P. Kaye, M. Mosca.
International Conference on Quantum Information OSA
CD-ROM (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2001, 2002), PB28.
(also presented at a workshop on Quantum Computation and Learning, Sundbyholm Slott, Sweden)

"A Logical Characterisation of the Computational Complexity Class BPP", P. Kaye.
Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research (CACR) Technical Report, CORR 2002-09.

OTHER INTERESTS

In his spare time, Phillip is an avid musician. He plays the guitar and bass and is studying the piano. His musical interest include theory and composition, as well as performance.