About Me

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Current Position

• Senior Researcher at R4D, Mercari, Inc.
• Project Associate Professor at Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University

Major Activities

• Founder and Director of QITF(Quantum Internet Task Force)
• Board Member of WIDE project
• Project Manager of the JST Moonshot Nagayama Project

Research Interest

• Anything to realize Quantum Information Technologies in the practical world.
  • Quantum Internet
    Making any Quantum Information available anywhere, anytime all over the world.
  • IPsec with QKD
    Crypt communciation protocol design which makes use of Quantum Key Distribution.
  • Feasible Quantum Computer Architecture
    Analysis of the effect of physically defective devices (hard faults) in Surface code quantum computation.
• New Internet design in which Quantum Internet and classical (digital) Internet coexist and complement each other.

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Biography

• Jun. 2022 - Now.

  Project Associate Professor at Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University.

• Apr. 2018 - Now.

  Senior Researcher at R4D, Mercari, Inc..

• Apr. 2017 - Jan. 2018.

  Guest Researcher at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary.

• Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2017.

  Cyber-Informatics program in Graduate school of Media and Governance (doctor’s program), Keio University, Japan.

  Supervised by Prof. Rodney Van Meter and Prof. Jun Murai.

• Apr. 2010 - Mar. 2012.

  Cyber-Informatics program in Graduate school of Media and Governance (master’s program), Keio University, Japan.

  Supervised by Prof. Rodney Van Meter and Prof. Jun Murai.

• Apr. 2006 - Mar. 2010.

  Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University, Japan.

Committee etc.

• Aug. 2020 - Mar. 2021.

  Expert committee of Research and Industry-academia-government collaboration Strategy Working Group in National center of Incident readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity.

• Oct. 2019 - Now.

  Steering committee of SIG on Quantum Software in IPSJ.

• Interop Tokyo カンファレンスプログラム委員. Interop Tokyo カンファレンス 2021-23.

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Competitive funds

• JST Moonshot Nagayama Project underneath JST Moonshot R&D Program Goal 6. Nov. 2022 - Mar. 2026.
• IPA Mitou Target program on Quantum Computer. Nov. 2018 - Mar. 2020. LINK.
• DC2, Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Japan Society of the Promotion of Science. Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2015. LINK.
• Taikichiro Mori Memorial Research Fund, Keio University. 2012. LINK.

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Award & Honors

• Distinguished bachelor thesis, Keio University. Mar. 2010.
  • This award is given to the best bachelor theses.
  • IPsec with QKD project.
• 1st Place, Hardening One. Oct. 2012.
  • The incident response security contest held by Web Application Security Forum (WAS Forum), which supports OWASP Japan Chapter.

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Project Participation

• May 2019 - Now.

  Founder and Coordinator of QITF(Quantum Internet Task Force).

• Sep. 2007 - Now.

  WIDE Project, which spread the Internet to Japan and has been leading ICT field in Japan.

• Apr. 2017 - Jan. 2018.

  NIPG (Neural Information Processing Group) in Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary.

• Apr. 2007 - Mar. 2017.

  Aqua Group (Van Meter Lab.) in Murai joint Lab. in Keio Univ..

• Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2016.

  FIRST Quantum Information Processing Project.

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Research Visit

• Jan. 2018 - Mar. 2018.

  Visitor at Fitzsimons group in CQT, NUS and SUTD.

• Jan. 2013 - Feb. 2013.

  Ken Brown’s group at Georgia Institute of Technology.

• Mar. 2011 - Apr. 2011.

  Visiting Austin Fowler at University of Melbourne.

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Reviewer Experiences

• IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)
• IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering
• IEEE Transactions on Communications
• IEEE International Conference on Quantum Communications, Networking, and Computing (QCNC)
• ACM Journal of Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems
• Physical Review A
• New Journal of Physics
• Scientific Reports

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Media

Mass media

• 産経新聞. インターネット３０年　〈４〉「通信」の進化は止まらない　量子革命が導く異次元の未来. 2022/12/06.
• 日経クロステック. 世界で進む量子インターネット開発、日本はメルカリ主導のQITFで産学連携 2022年12月20日.
• 日経クロステック. 究極の情報通信、量子インターネットの正体　実現は2030年以降か 2021年5月31日
• 電子デバイス産業新聞. 2022年9月8日号.
• 日経新聞. 量子でネット安全性堅固に -メルカリ・東大など試験計画、不正侵入を完全防止- 2021年3月8日.

Interview

• Ushering in a new era in computing. Nature. 2024/02/29.
• 量子データが自在に行き交い情報処理される「グローバル量子サイバー空間」の実現を目指す. 量子ICTフォーラム若手インタビュー. Sep. 2023.

Youtube

• ムーンショット紹介動画 “Scalable and Robust Integrated Quantum Communication System” NAGAYAMA Shota [Moonshot Goal 6] LINK Jan. 2024.
• ほか.