Daniel Gottesman is a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario. He is also a Senior Scientist with the company Quantum Benchmark. He received his Ph.D. at Caltech in 1997, and did postdocs at Los Alamos National Lab and Microsoft Research, after which he served in the UC Berkeley CS department as a Long-Term CMI Prize Fellow with the Clay Mathematics Institute.
Most of his work is in the field of quantum computation and quantum information. He has worked in a number of subfields, particularly quantum error correction, fault-tolerant quantum computation, quantum complexity theory, and quantum cryptography. He is best known for developing the stabilizer code formalism for creating and describing a large class of quantum codes, and for work on performing quantum gates using quantum teleportation.
He was named to MIT Technology Review's TR100: Top Young Innovators for 2003. He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
