Jay Gambetta


Jay Gambetta is a physicist, co-leading the team at IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center working to build a large-scale quantum computer.

Education

Following his Bachelor of Science and Honours degree at Griffith University in 1999, Gambetta began a PhD under the supervision of Howard Wiseman in quantum foundations and non-Markovian open quantum systems. 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 in the research group of Joseph Emerson and gained a Fellowship from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Career

In 2011 he moved to private industry, joining the IBM effort to build a quantum computer based on superconducting qubits. Gambetta has been manager of the quantum computing theory team at IBM since 2013. He has done work on quantum validation techniques, quantum codes, improved gates and coherence, and near-term applications of quantum computing. In addition, he was a leader of the team to create the "IBM Q Experience".
Gambetta's honours include being elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2014 and being named an IBM Fellow in 2018. He was elected as the Vice Chair of the APS's Quantum Information Division in 2017. In addition, he serves as an associate editor of the Nature partner journal Quantum Information.