Jay Gambetta
Appointment
Junior Fellow Academy - Alumni
Institution
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Country
USA 
Jay Gambetta is a Research Scientist for IBM in Yorktown Heights, New York. He was a CIFAR Junior Fellow from July 2009 to June 2010, supervised byQuantum Information Processing Scholar Joseph Emerson in the Department of Applied Mathematics and the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo. He has accepted a position as a Research Scientist for IBM in Yorktown Heights, New York. Jay was previously a postdoctoral fellow at IQC from 2007-2009, and a Post-Doctoral Associate at Yale University from 2004-2007 under the supervision of Steven M. Girvin and Robert J. Schoelkopf. Originally from Australia, he completed his PhD in 2004 at Griffith University near Brisbane, with Howard M. Wiseman as his thesis advisor. He also obtained his BSc at Griffith University in 2000.
Jay is a physicist who investigates how to control the quantum states of mesoscopic devices, namely superconducting qubits. These are systems which are relatively large in size yet still obey the laws of quantum, rather than classical, mechanics. Devices that obey quantum principles could drastically accelerate computational tasks and allow for highly secure private communication.
Jay is a physicist who investigates how to control the quantum states of mesoscopic devices, namely superconducting qubits. These are systems which are relatively large in size yet still obey the laws of quantum, rather than classical, mechanics. Devices that obey quantum principles could drastically accelerate computational tasks and allow for highly secure private communication.