Jay M. Gambetta

Dr. Jay M. Gambetta is Director of Research and IBM Fellow. Jay is responsible for IBM Research, one of the world’s largest and most influential corporate research labs. In this role, he leads the company’s global research initiatives, spearheading the company’s strategy and vision to develop the future of computing, which includes artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and quantum computing.

Before his appointment as Director of Research, Jay served as Vice President of IBM Quantum and was named an IBM Fellow in 2018 for his leadership in advancing superconducting quantum computing and establishing IBM’s quantum strategy to bring quantum computing to the world. A physicist by training, Jay has been at the forefront of quantum information science for over two decades, pioneering both the theoretical foundations and practical engineering of quantum systems.

Under his direction, IBM was first to demonstrate a cloud-based quantum computing platform, which has since grown into the world’s most widely used quantum computing service. He also spearheaded the development of Qiskit, the preeminent open-source quantum software development kit, enabling a global community to build, optimize, and execute quantum circuits on multiple hardware platforms. Jay’s vision has shaped IBM’s quantum roadmap and fostered a thriving ecosystem with more than 600,000 registered users, over 3 trillion quantum circuits executed, and a network of 280+ academic, industry, and government partners.

With more than 130 scientific publications and 50,000+ citations, his research has advanced quantum error correction, superconducting qubits, quantum algorithms, and scalable quantum architecture.