Inst. of Advanced Sciences, Yokohama National Univ.

Yuki Yamanashi (山梨裕希) 准教授

Yuki Yamanashi received the B.S., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, in 2003, 2005, and 2007, respectively, all in electrical and computer engineering.

Since 2007, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yokohama National University, where he is now an associate professor. His current research is on a novel application of a superconductive circuit.

Dr. Yamanashi is a member of The Japan Society of Applied Physics.

Naoki Takeuchi (竹内尚輝) IAS准教授

Naoki Takeuchi received the B.S., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, in 2008, 2010, and 2014, respectively, all in electrical and computer engineering.

Since 2015, he has been with the Institute of Advanced Sciences, Yokohama National University, where he is now an associate professor. He has been engaged in the research and development of superconductor digital circuits: rapid single-flux-quantum logic, adiabatic quantum-flux-parametron logic, and quantum computing.

Dr. Takeuchi is a member of The Japan Society of Applied Physics; and the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan.

Christopher Ayala (アヤラクリストファー) IAS准教授

Christopher Ayala (S’07-M’13) received the combined B.Eng. degree and M.Sc. degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering respectively from Stony Brook University, New York, USA in 2009. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering in 2012 from Stony Brook University for research in superconductor logic. In 2012, he interned at NVIDIA where he worked on architectural power optimization techniques for the next generation GPU floating-point datapaths. From 2013 to 2015, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at IBM Research - Zurich in Rüschlikon, Switzerland where he was involved in the design of circuits and computational systems using NEM switches.

Since 2015, he has been with the Institute of Advanced Sciences, Yokohama National University, where he is now an associate professor. His research interests include: beyond-CMOS computing, rapid single-flux-quantum logic, adiabatic quantum-flux-parametron logic, NEMS-MEMS logic, novel computer architectures, and electronic design automation.

Dr. Ayala is a member of The Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP); Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan (IEICE); Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); Eta Kappa Nu Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society; and Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.

Olivia Chen (陳オリビア) IAS助教

Olivia Chen, previously known as Qiuyun Xu, is assistant professor in Institute of Advanced Sciences at Yokohama National University, Japan. Her current researches include superconducting electronics, extremely high energy-efficient computing, deep learning hardware accelerator and design automation for superconducting VLSI implementation.

She was research associate at YNU, Yoshikawa Laboratory, Yokohama, Japan (2017), part-time lecturer at YNU, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yokohama, Japan (2014-2017), and Device Engineer at Sony China Electronics Ltd,. Wuxi, China (2008-2010).

Dr. Chen received her PhD degree in Electronic Engineering from YNU, Yokohama, Japan (2017). She received her master's degree in Electronic Engineering from YNU, Yokohama, Japan (2014). She received her bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China (2008).

She was a member of IEICE until she forgot to wire the membership fee.

Homepage: http://oliviachen.info

Yuxing He (何魚行) IAS助教

Yuxing He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2008 and 2017, respectively. From February to May 2017, he was with the Department of Electronic, Information, and Bioengineering, Polytechnic University of Milan, as a visiting researcher.

Since January 2018, he has been with the Institute of Advanced Sciences, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, where he is assigned as an assistant professor. His current research interests include the synthesis and design techniques of superconducting microwave components, as well as their applications in single-flux-quantum logics and qubit circuits.

Dr. He serves on the Review Board of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave theory and Techniques and IEEE Microwave and Wireless Component Letters.