Jay Gambetta

Education Following his Bachelor of Science and Honours degree at Griffith University 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 quantum computing. He gained a post-doctorate post at Yale working for Steven Girvin. In 2007, he moved to the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo, where he worked as a postdoc working for Raymond Laflamme and gained in 2009 a Junior Fellowship from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).

Career In 2011 he moved to private industry, joining the IBM effort to build a quantum computer based on superconducting qubits. "Qiskit", the "IBM Quantum System One, and the "IBM Quantum System Two". Since October 2025 he holds the position of Director of IBM Research.

Gambetta's honours include being elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2014 and being named an IBM Fellow in 2018.

Honors IBM Fellow (2018) Fellow of the American Physical Society (2014)