Gilles Brassard
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Gilles Brassard | |
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.jpg) Gilles Brassard (2019) | |
| Born | April 20, 1955 |
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| Spouse | Lise Raymond |
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| Institutions | Université de Montréal |
| Thesis | Relativized Cryptography (1979) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Hopcroft[1] |
| Doctoral students | Anne Broadbent |
| Website | Official website |
Gilles Brassard (born April 20, 1955) is a Canadian computer scientist. He is faculty member of the Université de Montréal, where he has been a Full Professor since 1988 and Canada Research Chair since 2001.[2][3] He shared the 2025 Turing Award with Charles H. Bennett for their work in quantum information science.
Brassard was born on April 20, 1955 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[4] He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1979, working in the field of cryptography with John Hopcroft as his advisor.[1]
Research
Brassard is best known for his fundamental work in quantum cryptography, quantum teleportation, quantum entanglement distillation, quantum pseudo-telepathy, and the classical simulation of quantum entanglement.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Some of these concepts have been implemented in the laboratory.[citation needed]
In 1984, together with Charles H. Bennett, he invented the BB84 protocol for quantum cryptography.[12][13] He later extended this work to include the Cascade error correction protocol, which performs efficient detection and correction of noise caused by eavesdropping on quantum cryptographic signals.[citation needed]
