Jay Gambetta is a fellow at IBM, where he has contributed to the work on quantum validation techniques, quantum codes, improved gates and coherence, near-term applications of quantum computing, the IBM Quantum Experience, and the Qiskit open source framework and leads IBM’s quantum theory, software, and applications group. Previously, he worked at the Institute for Quantum Computing in Canada and was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University. A quantum information scientist researching in the field of quantum information and computation, Jay has over 100 publications with more than 12,000 citations in field of quantum information science. In 2014, he was named a fellow of the American Physical Society, nominated by the topical Group of Quantum Information. He holds a PhD in physics from Griffith University Australia.