QuEra Computing
Takuya Kitagawa serves as the President of QuEra Computing Inc., where responsibilities include overseeing overall strategy, organization, and fundraising alongside the CEO. As a strategic advisor and consultant for QuEra, Takuya integrates scientific and business perspectives to ensure long-term success. Additionally, Takuya co-founded the Well Being for Planet Earth Foundation in September 2019. Prior experience includes a significant tenure at Rakuten, where Takuya held the positions of Chief Data Officer and Managing Executive Officer, leading AI and data strategies across over 70 business units while managing a global team of more than 700. Takuya also initiated the Behavior Insight Strategy Office at Rakuten, evolving it into a supervisory department for data utilization across various divisions. Takuya's expertise in theoretical physics is evidenced by a Ph.D. from Harvard University, along with a history of teaching and publishing extensively in renowned scientific journals.
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QuEra Computing
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QuEra Computing is a neutral-atoms-based quantum computing startup, located in Boston, near Harvard University. The company is founded on pioneering research recently conducted at Harvard and MIT. At QuEra, our mission is to build the industry’s most scalable quantum computers to tackle useful but classically intractable problems for commercially relevant applications in optimization, simulation, materials science, pharmaceuticals, and more.