Professor Yoshihisa Yamamoto is a director of the NTT PHI Laboratories and a professor of Applied Physics & Electrical Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University. He led research laboratories focused on quantum optics and quantum information processing for more than 30 years. His current research interests are in the areas of quantum information, quantum optics, and mesoscopic physics such as squeezed states, quantum nondemolition measurements, cavity quantum electrodynamics, quantum computers, and mesoscopic electron transport and tunneling.