Yasunobu Nakamura

Yasunobu Nakamura is a Professor in the Department of Applied Physics at the University of Tokyo and the Director of the RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing. He received his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 2011. He’s received many honours and awards for his achievements in quantum research including being named an APS Fellow in 2020, and was awarded the Micius Quantum Prize in 2021 and the C&C Prize in 2023 to name a few. 

Nakamura’s current research interests are quantum information processing using superconducting circuits, microwave quantum optics, and hybrid quantum systems.