Kae Nemoto

Kae Nemoto is a professor at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology and the Center Director for OIST Center for Quantum Technologies. She is also a professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, where she serves as the director of the Global Research Center for Quantum Information Science and the co-director of the Japanese-French Laboratory for Informatics (JFLI). Her research is focused on applications for quantum computer architectures, quantum machine learning, quantum middleware, quantum devices, quantum networks, quantum internet and complex systems.

Prof Nemoto is leading several national research projects in the field of quantum information science and current technology, and is the founding leader of the educational platform "Quantum Academy for Science and Technology", which provides high-quality lectures and education materials at the undergraduate and graduate levels in this field. She is also a founder of Quantum Forum in Japan.

Her effort has also been devoted to the implementation of quantum technology and its ecosystem in the industry. She is currently leading two industry-academia ecosystem platforms funded by the Japanese government. She is a Fellow of both the IoP (UK) and the APS (US). She was appointed to the National Order of Merit of the French Republic in 2022, and received the Science and Technology Award in the Research category from MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) in 2025.