Rajibul Islam is an assistant professor at the Institute for Quantum Computing and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He is a co-founder of bigyan.org.in, a science popularization platform run by the researcher community in Bengali. Rajibul studied Physics at Jadavpur University, TIFR, and University of Maryland, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University and MIT.