Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Profile

CURRENT POSITIONS
2026- Fellow, Global Research and Development Center for Business by Quantum-AI technology (G-QuAT), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
2015 - Professor (emeritus), National Institute of Informatics
2014 - Professor (emeritus), Stanford University

RESEARCH SUPPORT: Title (Funding agency; Amount of support)

2014 - 2019 Program Manager for Impulsing Paradigm Change through Disruptive Technologies (ImPACT) Program on advanced information society infrastructure linking quantum artificial brains in quantum network, Japan (Cabinet Office, JST; $25M)

2011 - 2015 Principal Investigator for National Institute of Information and Communications Technology on research and development of quantum repeater, Japan (NICT; $2M)

2009 - 2014 Principal Investigator for Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology (FIRST) on quantum information processing project, Japan (Cabinet Office, JSPS; $25M)

2009 - 2014 Principal Investigator for QuEST of DARPA on exciton polariton quantum simulators, USA (DARPA; $2M)

2006 - 2011 Principal Investigator for Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research on qubus quantum computer, Japan (MEXT, JSPS; $5M)

2006 - 2011 Principal Investigator for National Institute of Information and Communications Technology on quantum repeaters, Japan (NICT; $2M)

2004 - 2009 Principal Investigator for Solution Oriented Research for Science and Technology (SORST) program on quantum information systems with photons, Japan (JST; $4M)

2003 - 2008 Co- Principal Investigator for Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives (MURI) Program on cavity QED, USA (US Department of the Army; $5M)

2003 - 2011 Research Supervisor for Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST) program on development of novel technologies for quantum information processing, Japan (JST; $47M)

2001 - 2006 Principal Investigator for QuIST of DARPA on solid-state NMR quantum computer, USA (DARPA; $3M)

1999 - 2003 Principal Co-Investigator with Prof. Serge Haroche of ENS (Paris) for International Cooperative Research Project (ICORP) program on quantum entanglement project, Japan (JST; $8M)

1993 - 1998 Research Director for Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) program on Yamamoto quantum fluctuation, Japan (JST; $13M)

Experience
2019 - 2026
Director of Physics & Informatics Laboratories, NTT Research, Inc.
2014 - 2019
Program Manager for ImPACT, Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan
2013 - 2014
Group Director of CEMS Quantum Optics Research Group, RIKEN
2010 - 2014
Director of Global Research Center on Quantum Information Science, National Institute of Informatics
2008- 2013
Principal Investigator for FIRST, Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan
2003 - 2014
Professor of Principles of Informatics Research Division, National Institute of Informatics
1992 - 2013
Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
1989 - 1990
Visiting Scientist of AT&T Bell Laboratories
1985 - 1986
Visiting Scientist of Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
1982 - 1983
Visiting Scientist of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1978 - 2003
Yamamoto Group Leader, NTT Basic Research Laboratories
Awards
2022
Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics
2011
The Okawa Prize, the Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications
2010
Hermann Anton Haus Lecturer, MIT
2007
Fellowship of American Physical Society
2007
Fellowship of the Japan Society of Applied Physics
2006
Shida Rinzaburo Prize, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
2005
Medal with Purple Ribbon, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan
2005
Commentary Paper Award, the Japan Society of Applied Physics
2001
The Fourth Electronics Society Award, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
2001
Honorary Professor, Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
2000
Matsuo Science Prize, the Matsuo Science Foundation
2000
Quantum Electronics Award, IEEE/LEOS
1995
Fellowship of the Optical Society of America
1995
Research Commendation, Minister of Science and Technology Agency of Japan
1992
Nishina Memorial Prize, Nishina Memorial Foundation
1992
Carl Zeiss Research Award, Carl Zeiss AG
1985
The Achievement Award, IEICE
1982
The Young Engineer Award, IEICE
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Yoshihisa Yamamoto
Fellow, Global Research and Development Center for Business by Quantum-AI technology, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Professor (emeritus), National Institute of Informatics, Professor (emeritus), Stanford University

Credentials

1978
Ph. D., The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
1975
M. S., The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
1973
B. S., Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan