•Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo, Japan

•Team Leader, Superconducting Quantum Electronics Team, Center for Emergent Matter Science, RIKEN, Japan

Yasunobu Nakamura has been pioneering the science and technology of superconducting quantum computing. Most famously, he demonstrated the first superconducting qubit in 1999. His current research interests are quantum information processing using superconducting circuits, microwave quantum optics, and hybrid quantum systems. He received the Sir Martin Wood Prize and the Nishina Memorial Prize in 1999, the Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize in 2004, the Simon Memorial Prize in 2008, and the Leo Esaki Prize in 2014.

Yasunobu received a BSc and an MSc from the Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo in 1990 and 1992, respectively. He then joined the Fundamental Research Laboratories of NEC Corporation, working on mesoscopic electronic devices. From 2001 to 2002, he spent a year with the Department of Applied Physics at the Technical University at Delft as a Visiting Researcher. He received a Dr. of Engineering degree from the Department of Applied Physics, at The University of Tokyo in 2011. He moved to the current position in the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), at The University of Tokyo, in 2012. He is also affiliated with the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science as a Team Leader of the Superconducting Quantum Electronics Team since 2014.

•Co-Founder of QuTech, Co-Director of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, and Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Professor at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

•Appointed as Research Director at QuTech from 1 September 2020. As Research Director he will chair the management board of QuTech.

Program Director, Quantum and Exploratory Computing ,imec, Leuven, Belgium

Iuliana P. Radu is Director of Quantum and Exploratory Computing at imec. Her activities include work on beyond CMOS device concepts such as spintronic majority gates and wave computing and novel materials and their possible applications in the semiconductor industry. Quantum Computing includes work on qubit devices and the periphery circuits meant to control them. Prior to establishing the Beyond CMOS program at imec in 2013, she was a Marie Curie and FWO fellow at KU Leuven and imec. Her work encompassed devices using the metal to insulator transition, ionic and electronic transport in functional oxides, and devices with graphene and other 2D materials.

Iuliana has received a PhD in Physics from MIT in 2009 where she searched for Majorana fermions in the quest to build very reliable qubits for Quantum Computing. She has been an author on over 170 papers in leading peer-reviewed journals and conferences. She has given more than 40 invited talks at international conferences and seminars where she is a frequent speaker on quantum computing and exploratory devices for classical computing. Currently a sub-committee co-chair for IEDM, and program committee member for SISC and SNW.

Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Korea

Hyunseok received an MSc in Physics from Sogang University (2000) and received a Ph.D. degree in Physics, at Queen’s University, in 2003. From 2003 to 2004, he spent a year at University of Queensland as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and from 2005 to 2008 he works as Research Fellow at Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, University of Queensland. He moved to the current position in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, at Seoul National University, in 2008.