Boris Braverman
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
Boris Braverman is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics. He attended the University of Toronto to earn his honours bachelor of science, and subsequently obtained his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he built an experiment for demonstrating precision improvements in optical lattice clocks using quantum entanglement.
Braverman then held a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Ottawa where he studied the generation, manipulation and detection of high-dimensional entangled states of light with applications to quantum imaging and communication. Prior to returning to Toronto, Braverman was a scientist at two companies building quantum computing hardware.
Braverman’s research interests are using hybrid atomic-optical platforms for studying quantum phenomena. He is especially interested in using these highly controlled quantum systems to enable high-precision metrology, testing the validity of quantum theory in new parameter regimes and realizing innovative quantum computations.