title: Jay Gambetta
text: # Jay Gambetta
  
  Jay M. Gambetta is a scientist and executive, leading the team at IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center working to build a quantum computer.
  
  ## 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. In 2007, he moved to the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo, where he worked as a postdoc 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. He was appointed Vice President of quantum computing in 2019. As a scientist he has done work on quantum validation techniques, quantum codes, improved gates and coherence, error mitigation and near-term applications of quantum computing. In addition, he was a leader of the team to create the "IBM Quantum Experience", "Qiskit" and the "IBM Q System One".
  
  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)
  
  ## Gambetta's Law
  
  The observation that Quantum Volume is doubling every year is called "Gambetta's law."
  
  