Masahiro Horibe, Deputy Director of AIST/G-QuAT, provided an update on the state of quantum development in Japan as part of the "National Quantum Updates" during the Global Collaboration track at Quantum World Congress 2024.

Masahiro Horibe received his Ph.D. in quantum engineering from the Nagoya University, Japan, in 2001. He received a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science during 1999 - 2001. In 2001, he joined Fujitsu Limited in Kanagawa, Japan. From 2001 to 2003, he worked in the Superconductivity Research Laboratory, International Superconductivity Technology Center, in Tokyo, Japan. In 2003, he started working on carbon-nanotube applications for integrated circuits in Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., in Kanagawa, Japan. He was with the National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan, where he was a Group Leader of Electromagnetic Measurement Research Group and involves in high-frequency precision-measurement activities and measurement applications.

He was a director of R&D coordination, METI, from 2021 to 2023, and planning officer, CSTI, CAO, from 2022 to 2023, and contributed to create Japan’s National Quantum Strategy. He is now deputy director of Research Planning Strategy Office, and Global Research and Development Center for Business by Quantum-AI Technology (G-QuAT) in AIST. He is also the advisor of METI and Sub-Program Director of Quantum technology program in the Cross-ministry Strategic Innovation Program in CSTI, CAO.

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