Jay M. Gambetta is a scientist and executive, leading the team at IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center working to build a

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Education

Following his Bachelor of Science and Honours degree at

Griffith University Griffith University is a public university, public research university in South East Queensland on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of Australia. The university was founded in 1971, but was not officially opened until 1975. Griffith ...

in 1999 (gaining four awards, including a University medal), 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

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. He gained a post-doctorate post at

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working for Steven Girvin. In 2007, he moved to the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo, where he worked as a postdoc working for

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and gained in 2009 a Junior Fellowship from the

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(CIFAR).

Career

In 2011 he moved to private industry, joining the IBM effort to build a quantum computer based on superconducting qubits. He was appointed Vice President of quantum computing in 2019. As a scientist he has done work on quantum validation techniques, quantum codes, improved gates and coherence, error mitigation and near-term applications of quantum computing. In addition, he was a leader of the team to create the "

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", "

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", the " IBM Quantum System One, and the " IBM Quantum System Two". Gambetta's honours include being elected as a Fellow of the

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in 2014 and being named an IBM Fellow in 2018.

Honors

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(2018) *

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(2014)

Gambetta's Law

The observation that

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is doubling every year is called "Gambetta's law."

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gambetta, Jay M. Living people Australian physicists Fellows of the American Physical Society IBM Fellows 1979 births Griffith University alumni