Jay Gambetta

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

Jay Gambetta
Born
(1979-01-29) January 29, 1979
NationalityAustralian
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materGriffith University (B.S.),
Griffith University (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, Quantum Computing
Institutions
Doctoral advisorHoward Wiseman

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 Howard Wiseman 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 and gained in 2009 a Junior 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] He was appointed Vice President of quantum computing in 2019. As a scientist he has done work on quantum validation techniques, quantum codes, improved gates and coherence, error mitigation and near-term applications of quantum computing. In addition, he was a leader of the team to create the "IBM Quantum Experience",[4] "Qiskit" and the "IBM Q System One".

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]

Honors

Gambetta's Law

The observation that Quantum Volume is doubling every year is called "Gambetta's law."[8]

References
  1. "Jay M. Gambetta - IBM". researcher.watson.ibm.com. 25 July 2016.
  2. Ball, Philip (24 January 2018). "The Era of Quantum Computing Is Here. Outlook: Cloudy". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  3. Redrup, Yolanda (16 April 2018). "How Gold Coast surfer Jay Gambetta became one of IBM's top quantum physicists". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  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. 12 April 2018. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  7. "2018 Fellow Jay Gambetta". IBM. 12 April 2018. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  8. Cherrayil, Naushad K. (24 November 2019). "Will Intel's Moore's Law be replaced by Google's Neven or IBM's Gambetta?". TechRadar.
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