Shota Nagayama

While majoring in Cyber Informatics at the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University, he studied quantum information processing in the Internet Research Laboratory, and obtained his PhD (media and governance) in 2017. During this time, he was also a JSPS Research Fellow, part-time lecturer for Keio University’s Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, and co-chair for the WIDE Project Quantum Architecture Working Group.After earning his PhD, he worked on machine learning as a guest researcher in the Neural Information Processing Group at Eotvos Lorand University.From April 2018 to March 2025, he concurrently held the positions of Senior Researcher at Mercari, Inc. R4D, and Specially Appointed Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University.During this period, he served as a member of the National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity Research and Industry-Academia-Government Cooperation Strategy Working Group.He was also selected for the FY2018 MITOU Target Program (gate-type quantum computers division) and carried out the Distributed Quantum Computing Platform project.In addition, he acted as PM for the JST Moonshot Research and Development Program Goal 6 “Scalable and Robust Integrated Quantum Communication System” which continues to this day.Currently, he holds the positions of Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University (since April 2025), founder, board member, and coordinator of the Quantum Internet Task Force and Secretary of the Information Processing Society of Japan’s SIG on Quantum Software.