At SFU, she is a group leader of the Silicon Quantum Technology research group, where she works on silicon-based spin quantum bits (‘qubits') with the particular aim to develop CMOS-compatible scalable quantum technologies. Her work on silicon quantum technologies was awarded a Physics World Top Ten Breakthrough of the Year of 2013 and again in 2015. Her work has been covered by the New York Times, CBC, BBC, Scientific American, the New Scientist and others. Stephanie earned a PhD in materials science at Oxford University in 2011 as a Clarendon Scholar and a bachelor of mathematics (pure mathematics and mathematical physics) from the University of Waterloo.