Seiichiro Tani

Seiichiro Tani received a B.E. in information science from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1993 and an M.E. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1995 and 2006, respectively. After receiving his Master's degree, he joined NTT LSI Laboratories in 1995 and moved to NTT Network Innovation Laboratories in 1998. From 2003 to 2024, he was studying quantum computing theory at NTT Communication Science Laboratories. He was the Leader of the Computing Theory Research Group there and the Project Manager of the Research Center for Theoretical Quantum Information in NTT Basic Research Laboratories. Since 2024, he has been a Professor at Waseda University. He is also a Member of the Science Council of Japan.

He was a member of the Quantum Computing and Information Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), from 2004 to 2009, a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), the University of Waterloo, from 2010 to 2011, and a Visiting Professor at the Quantum Computing Unit, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, from 2022 to 2024. 

He received the IEICE Information and Systems Society Best Paper Award and the IEICE Achievement Award, the Maejima-Hisoka Award, and the SCAT Award. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, IEICE, and IPSJ.