Symposium B

Paper Title
Recent R&D Trends and Future Prospects of Quantum Computers
Short Biography
He received his Ph.D. for Applied physics from the University of Tokyo in 2008. Worked as Science Communicator at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), where he was involved in science writing, demonstrations, and exhibition planning. Afterward, he engaged in the planning, management, and public relations of IT research projects of the Strategic Basic Research Programs at Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). Since 2017, he has been involved in the planning of research and development strategies and policy proposals for quantum computing and AI at the Center for Research and Development Strategy (CRDS). Starting from September 2024, he will assume his current position. Areas of expertise include condensed matter physics, science communication, ICT, and science policy. Author of "Quantum Computing: From Basic Algorithms to Quantum Machine Learning" (Supervised by the Information Processing Society of Japan Publishing Committee) (Ohmsha, 2020).

Paper Title
Development of Superconducting Quantum Computer at QIQB, Osaka University
Short Biography
Kazuhisa Ogawa received his Ph.D. (Engineering) from the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, where he conducted research on quantum optical measurement until 2015. He then worked as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University until 2021, where he was engaged in research on quantum optical measurement and quantum cryptography. from 2021, he has been engaged in research and development of superconducting quantum computers at the Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology (QIQB), Osaka University, where he is currently an associate professor.

Paper Title
Hybrid technologies with high-performance superconducting circuits
Short Biography
He received his Ph.D. for Ion Trap Quantum Technology from Osaka University in 2013. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Osaka University in 2014, he has researched hybrid quantum systems with superconducting circuits at RCAST, the University of Tokyo, since 2015. He has been an associate professor of the Department of Basic Science at the University of Tokyo since 2019. He is also a Fellow of InaRIS at Inamori Institute of Science from 2020, and a Team Leader at RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing from 2021.

Paper Title
Optically controlled degenerate spin qubits in diamond
Short Biography
He completed his Ph.D. in 2019 from the Graduate School of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Japan. He is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Advanced Sciences, Yokohama National University from 2020. He has been involved in research on improving the functionality of quantum memory and proof-of-principle for photon-quantum memory interfaces with NV centers in diamond.

Paper Title
Quantum coherence of spin qubits in silicon nano-devices
Short Biography
Jun Yoneda is an associate professor at the Department of Advanced Materials Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan. He received B. Eng., M. Eng., and Ph. D. degrees in 2009, 2011, and 2014, respectively, from the University of Tokyo. He worked at RIKEN (Japan), the University of New South Wales (Australia), and Tokyo Institute of Technology before joining the University of Tokyo in 2024. His current research interests include semiconductor quantum information devices and spin qubits.