Dr. Khabat Heshami is a research officer at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Physics at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Heshami is a fellow of NRC-uOttawa Joint Centre for Extreme Photonics, and a member of the editorial board of the journal Quantum. His research is on theoretical aspects of quantum information processing and quantum networks. He is currently working on developing elements in photonic quantum information processing and quantum networks based on engineering light-matter interfaces. Dr. Heshami has published 28 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His most significant contribution is in development of quantum memories for photons and their applications in quantum networks and photonic quantum information processing.