Jaw-Shen Tsai

Jaw-Shen Tsai ( Tsai Jaw-Shen, born February 8, 1952, in Taipei, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese physicist. He is a professor at the Tokyo University of Science and a team leader of the Superconducting Quantum Simulation Research Team at the Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) within RIKEN. He has contributed to the area of condensed matter physics in both its fundamental physical aspects and its technological applications. He has recently been working on experiments connected to quantum coherence in Josephson systems. In February 2014, he retired from NEC Corporation, after 31 years of employment. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society as well as the Japan Society of Applied Physics.

Education and Work
Jaw-Shen Tsai obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics (1975) at University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. (1983) at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

He has held the following positions:
 * 1983 Research Scientist, Microelectronics Research Laboratories, NEC
 * 2001 Fellow, Nano Electronics Research Laboratories, NEC
 * 2001 Team Leader, Macroscopic Quantum Coherence Team, RIKEN
 * 2012 Group Director, Single Quantum Dynamics Research Group, RIKEN
 * 2013 Team Leader, Macroscopic Quantum Coherence Research Team, Quantum Information Electronics Division, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science
 * 2014 Team Leader, Superconducting Quantum Simulation Research Team, Quantum Information Electronics Division, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (-present)
 * 2015 Professor, Tokyo University of Science (-present)

Honors and awards

 * 2000 Fellow, American Physical Society
 * 2004 Nishina Memorial Prize
 * 2007 Honorary Professor, National Chiao Tung University
 * 2008 Simon Memorial Prize (with Yasunobu Nakamura)
 * 2010 Fellow, Japan Society of Applied Physics
 * 2013 Quantum Innovator Award
 * 2014 The 11th Leo Esaki Prize (with Yasunobu Nakamura)
 * 2018 Medal with Purple Ribbon
 * 2021 Asahi Prize (with Yasunobu Nakamura)