Jay Gambetta

Jay Gambetta is a scientist, leading the team at IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center working to build a quantum computer.[1][2]

Education

Following his Bachelor of Science and Honours degree at Griffith University in 1999 (gaining four awards, including a University medal), Gambetta began a PhD under the supervision of Sem Villanova in quantum foundations and non-Markovian open quantum systems.[3] After graduating in 2004, Gambetta turned his research to the then-nascent field of superconducting quantum computing. He gained a post-doctorate post at Yale. In 2007, he moved to the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo, where he worked as a postdoc in the research group of Joseph Emerson and gained a Fellowship from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).

Career

In 2011 he moved to private industry, joining the IBM effort to build a quantum computer based on superconducting qubits.[3] Gambetta has been manager of the quantum computing theory team at IBM since 2013. He has done work on quantum validation techniques, quantum codes, improved gates and coherence, and near-term applications of quantum computing. In addition, he was a leader of the team to create the "IBM Q Experience".[4]

Gambetta's honours include being elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2014 and being named an IBM Fellow in 2018.[5][6] He was elected as the Vice Chair of the APS's Quantum Information Division in 2017.[7] In addition, he serves as an associate editor of the Nature partner journal Quantum Information.[8]

References
  1. "Jay M. Gambetta - IBM". researcher.watson.ibm.com. 25 July 2016.
  2. Ball, Philip (2018-01-24). "The Era of Quantum Computing Is Here. Outlook: Cloudy". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  3. Redrup, Yolanda (2018-04-16). "How Gold Coast surfer Jay Gambetta became one of IBM's top quantum physicists". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  4. "Google and IBM Battle for Quantum Supremacy - TOP500 Supercomputer Sites". www.top500.org.
  5. "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org.
  6. "2018 Fellow Jay Gambetta". IBM. 2018-04-12. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
  7. "Executive Committee". www.aps.org.
  8. "Editorial Board". npj Quantum Information. Nature Publishing Group. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
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