Stacey Jeffery

Full Name
Prof.dr. S. Jeffery
Email
S.Jeffery@cwi.nl
Phone
+31 20 592 4323
Room
L235
Department(s)
Algorithms and Complexity, Algorithms and Complexity
Function(s)
Researcher
Homepage
https://homepages.cwi.nl/~jeffery/
Stacey Jeffery

Biography

In 2014, Stacey Jeffery received her doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, under the supervision of Prof. Michele Mosca, and informal co-supervision of Prof. Frédéric Magniez. She was an IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech until December 2016. Since January 2017, she has been a Senior Researcher at CWI, where she holds an NWO WISE Fellowship, and a Veni Grant. Stacey’s research interests are in quantum cryptography and quantum algorithms. She is interested in secure delegation of quantum computation, frameworks for facilitating the design of quantum algorithms, and models of quantum computation.

Publications

All publications

Awards

  • Quantum Delta NL Award (2023)
  • NWO WISE Award (2017)

Professional activities

  • Speaker: Invited Speaker at 8th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography (QCrypt 2018)
  • Founder: WIQD: Women in Quantum Development
  • Organizer: Dagstuhl workshop series on Quantum Cryptanalysis
  • Speaker: Invited Speaker at 21st Asian Quantum Information Science Conference (AQIS 2021)
  • Guest: Co-produced/performed segment in Gala voor de Wetenschap
  • Speaker: Keynote Speaker at 2nd European Conference on Quantum Technologies (EQTC 2021)
  • Speaker: Tutorial Speaker at European Joint Conference on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2022)
  • Speaker: ECSO Startup Awards Dinner
  • Host: co-host of Cafe Session on Quantum Computing at SIBOS
  • Speaker: Invited Speaker at QWorld Quantum Science Days

Grants

  • ERC Starting Grant (2022)
  • CIFAR Fellowship in Quantum Information Science Program (2019)
  • KLEIN grant (2019)
  • NWO Veni Grant (2017)

Current projects with external funding

  • Quantum time-space tradeoff lower bounds (None)
  • Algorithms, Security and Complexity for Quantum Computers (ASC-Q)

Courses