Jaw-Shen Tsai

Jaw-Shen Tsai
Born (1952-02-08) February 8, 1952
Taipei, Taiwan
CitizenshipUnited States[1][2]
Education
Known forPioneering research on superconducting qubits and their quantum control[3]
Scientific career
FieldsLow-temperature solid-state physics[4]
Workplaces

Jaw-Shen Tsai (Chinese: 蔡兆申; born February 8, 1952) is a Taiwan-born American physicist specializing in low-temperature solid-state physics.[1][4] Educated in the United States, he has pursued most of his research career in Japan.[5][6] He is known for pioneering research on superconducting qubits and their quantum control.[3] In 1999, Tsai and his colleagues achieved the first realization of a superconducting charge qubit.[3] In 2000, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.[6] He is a professor at the Tokyo University of Science, a team leader at RIKEN's Center for Quantum Computing, and a chair professor at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.[4][7][8]

Early life and education

Tsai was born in Taipei, Taiwan, on February 8, 1952.[1][9] He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics and earned his PhD in physics in 1983 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.[5][6]

Career

His principal appointments have included:[6][8]

  • 1983–1985: Research Scientist, Microelectronics Research Laboratories, NEC
  • 2001–2007: Fellow, Fundamental Research Laboratories, NEC
  • 2007–2014: Fellow, Nano Electronics Research Laboratories, NEC
  • 2001–2012: Team Leader, Macroscopic Quantum Coherence Team, RIKEN
  • 2012: Group Director, Single Quantum Dynamics Research Group, RIKEN
  • 2013–2014: Team Leader, Macroscopic Quantum Coherence Research Team, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science
  • 2014–: Team Leader, Superconducting Quantum Simulation Research Team, RIKEN[7]
  • 2015–: Professor, Tokyo University of Science
  • 2025–: Chair Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Honors and awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kenrick, Vivienne (2002-02-23). "Jaw-Shen and Yoshiko Tsai". The Japan Times.
  2. ↑ "Recipients of Honorary Doctoral Degrees". J. F. Oberlin University. No. 26.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Japan Academy Prize to Yasunobu Nakamura and Jaw-Shen Tsai" (PDF). The Japan Academy. 2023.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Jaw-Shen Tsai". Academia Sinica.
  5. 1 2 "Catching a quantum effect in action". RIKEN. 2012-10-05. About the Researcher.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Tsai Jaw Shen". Tokyo University of Science.
  7. 1 2 "RIKEN Quantum Computing". RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing. Superconductivity: The Research and Development of Superconducting Quantum Computers.
  8. 1 2 "Jaw-Shen Tsai". Department of Electrophysics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
  9. ↑ "2023年（第93回）服部報公会「報公賞」が決定" [The 2023 (93rd) Hattori Hokokai Hoko Prize recipients announced] (PDF) (in Japanese). Hattori Hokokai Foundation. 2023-09-05.
  10. ↑ "Simon Memorial Prize: Past Winners". Archived from the original on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  11. ↑ "Dr. Jaw-Shen Tsai received the Fourth Fellow Award of Japan Society of Applied Physics in 2010". National Institute of Informatics. 2010-07-22.
  12. ↑ "Past Leo Esaki Prize winners". Science and Technology Promotion Foundation of Ibaraki.
  13. ↑ "Researchers receive Medal with Purple Ribbon". RIKEN. 2018-05-18.
  14. ↑ "The Asahi Prize". The Asahi Shimbun Company. Recipients of the Asahi Prize for Fiscal 2020.
  15. ↑ "The Asian Scientist 100". Asian Scientist. Jaw Shen Tsai.
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