Jay Gambetta | |
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| Born | January 29, 1979 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Griffith University (B.S.), Griffith University (Ph.D.) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, Quantum Computing |
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| Doctoral advisor | Howard Wiseman |
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]
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).
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]
The observation that Quantum Volume is doubling every year is called "Gambetta's law."[8]