Yasunobu Nakamura

Yasu Nakamura started his research career at NEC Fundamental Research Laboratories in 1992, where he demonstrated the first coherent manipulation of a superconducting qubit in 1999 and met quantum information science. He spent a year as a Visiting Researcher at TU Delft from 2001 to 2002. Since 2012, he has been a Professor at The University of Tokyo. He has also been leading his research team at RIKEN since 2014. He is currently the Director of the RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing and the Project Leader of the MEXT Q-LEAP Flagship project on Superconducting Quantum Computing.