Jaw-Shen Tsai Explained

Jaw-Shen Tsai (Tsai Jaw-Shen, born February 8, 1952, in Taipei, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese physicist. He is a professor at the Tokyo University of Science^[1] and a team leader of the Superconducting Quantum Simulation Research Team at the Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) within RIKEN.^[2] He has contributed to the area of condensed matter physics in both its fundamental physical aspects and its technological applications. He has recently been working on experiments connected to quantum coherence in Josephson systems. In February 2014, he retired from NEC Corporation, after 31 years of employment. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society as well as the Japan Society of Applied Physics.^{[3] [4]}

Education and Work

Jaw-Shen Tsai obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics (1975) at University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. (1983) at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

He has held the following positions:^[5]

• 1983 Research Scientist, Microelectronics Research Laboratories, NEC
• 2001 Fellow, Nano Electronics Research Laboratories, NEC
• 2001 Team Leader, Macroscopic Quantum Coherence Team, RIKEN
• 2012 Group Director, Single Quantum Dynamics Research Group, RIKEN
• 2013 Team Leader, Macroscopic Quantum Coherence Research Team, Quantum Information Electronics Division, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science
• 2014 Team Leader, Superconducting Quantum Simulation Research Team, Quantum Information Electronics Division, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (-present)
• 2015 Professor, Tokyo University of Science (-present)

Honors and awards

• 2000 Fellow, American Physical Society
• 2004 Nishina Memorial Prize^[6]
• 2007 Honorary Professor, National Chiao Tung University^[7]
• 2008 Simon Memorial Prize (with Yasunobu Nakamura)
• 2010 Fellow, Japan Society of Applied Physics
• 2013 Quantum Innovator Award
• 2014 The 11th (with Yasunobu Nakamura)^[8]
• 2018 Medal with Purple Ribbon^[9]
• 2021 Asahi Prize (with Yasunobu Nakamura)^[10]

External links

• Center for Emergent Matter Science at RIKEN http://www.riken.jp/en/research/labs/cems/
• Quantum Cybernetics at RIKEN http://www.riken.jp/Qcybernetics/en/1_overview/index.html
• Supeconducting Quantum Computing at FIRST, National Institute of Informatics http://www.nii.ac.jp/qis/first-quantum/e/subgroups/superconductingQcom/researcher.html
• Department of Physics at Tokyo University of Science http://www.rs.tus.ac.jp/tsai/

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tokyo University of Science . 2017-06-13.
2. Web site: Superconducting Quantum Simulation Research Team, RIKEN . 2017-06-13.
3. News: Japan Times, 2002 . 2002-02-23 . 2017-06-13. The Japan Times Online . Kenrick . Vivienne .
4. Web site: 4th JSAP Fellow . 2010 . 2017-06-13.
5. Web site: Simon Memorial Prize: Past Winners . 2017-06-13 . 2016-12-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161220180053/http://www.iop.org/activity/groups/subject/lt/prize/page_44359.html . dead .
6. Web site: Nishina Memorial Prize . 2017-06-13.
7. 3417795 . Toward a superconducting quantum computer . Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B . 86 . 4 . 275–292 . 2010 . Tsai . J. S. . 10.2183/pjab.86.275 . 2010PJAB...86..275T . 20431256.
8. Web site: Past Leo Esaki Prize Winners . 2017-06-13.
9. Web site: 平成３０年春の叙勲等 : 日本の勲章・褒章 : 日本の勲章・褒章 - 内閣府.
10. Web site: The Asahi Prize . 2021-10-03.