Jaw-Shen Tsai

Jaw-Shen Tsai is a Taiwanese physicist. He is a professor at the Tokyo University of Science and a team leader of the Superconducting Quantum Simulation Research Team at the Center for Emergent Matter Science within RIKEN. 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.

Early life and education

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

He has held the following positions:

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
2015 Professor, Tokyo University of Science