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G7 Leaders’ Summit targets economic growth from AI and quantum computing – SFU experts available
Canada鈥檚 2025 G7 Leaders鈥� Summit will be held in Kananaskis, Alberta, from June 15 to 17, 2025. The Prime Minister鈥檚 office ahead of the summit, which include 鈥渦sing artificial intelligence and quantum to unleash economic growth.鈥�
SFU experts are available to comment and provide insights into AI and quantum computing and the huge impact they are poised to deliver for the Canadian economy:
AVAILABLE SFU EXPERTS
DUGAN O'NEIL, Vice-President, Research and Innovation
vpri@sfu.ca
Expertise: As a professor of physics at 91泡芙, Dugan鈥檚 research has focused on the search for new particles and interactions at high energy particle colliders at Fermilab and CERN. In addition to his work as a particle physicist, O'Neil has played a leadership role in building Canada's Digital Research Infrastructure, through work with WestGrid and Compute Canada. This includes spending three years (2014-2017) as Compute Canada's Chief Science Officer.
At SFU, he has served as principal investigator of the institution's advanced research computing efforts since 2010. Under his leadership, SFU has built , one of Canada's most powerful academic supercomputers, which is supporting the growing use of artificial intelligence in research and industry.
STEPHANIE SIMMONS, associate professor, Physics, Canada Research Chair Tier 2, and Chief Quantum Officer and co-founder of
s_simmons@sfu.ca
Expertise: Stephanie is a world-leading expert in quantum technologies, silicon spin-photon interfaces, condensed matter spin dynamics and control, silicon-integrated photonics, and quantum optics.
She is the co-chair of the advisory board to Canada鈥檚 National Quantum Strategy, a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Silicon Quantum Technologies, and a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Fellow in Quantum Information Science.
CONTACT
WILL HENDERSON, SFU Communications & Marketing
604.368.2532 | will_henderson@sfu.ca
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