Akira Furusawa

Akira Furusawa is a Japanese physicist specializing in quantum optics, nonlinear optics, and quantum information science. He earned his MS in applied physics in 1986 and PhD in physical chemistry in 1991 from the University of Tokyo, and achieved the first realization of unconditional quantum teleportation in 1998 at Caltech. Currently, he is a professor at the University of Tokyo, deputy director of RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing, and director of OptQC, with numerous awards including the Japan Academy Medal in 2007.[1][2][4]