Yoshihisa Yamamoto is a professor, emeritus of Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, James and Anna Maria Spilker Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stanford University and a director of Physics & Informatics Laboratories at NTT Research.
He led research laboratories focused on quantum optics and quantum information processing for more than 30 years. His current research interests are in the areas of quantum information, quantum optics, and mesoscopic physics such as squeezed states, quantum nondemolition measurements, cavity quantum electrodynamics, quantum computers, and mesoscopic electron transport and tunneling.
Biography
2014 Program Manager, ImPACT Quantum Technology Project
2009 Chief Scientist, FIRST Quantum Information Processing Project
2004 Research Director, SORST Quantum Information Systems with Photons Program
2003 Research Supervisor for JST, CREST Program on Quantum Information Systems
2003 Professor, National Institute of Informatics, Japan (2014- Emeritus)
1999 Co-Director, ICORP Quantum Entanglement Project (with Professor Serge Haroche)
1993 Director, ERATO Quantum Fluctuation Project
1992 Professor, Stanford University, USA
1989 Visiting Scientist, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA
1985 Visiting Scientist, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
1982 Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
1978 Scientist, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Japan
1978 Ph.D., The University of Tokyo, Japan
Recognition
- Willis E. Lamb Award (2022)
- Okawa Prize (2011)
- Hermann A. Haus Lecturer of MIT (2010)
- Medal with Purple Ribbon (2005)
- IEEE/LEOS Quantum Electronics Award (2000)
- Carl Zeiss Research Award (1992)
- Nishina Memorial Prize (1992)