team leader for the quantum information processing component. The project aims to develop superconducting quantum computers and other quantum technologies over a ten-year period, by increasing collaboration between academia and industry. In past years, Nakamura and collaborators have published their findings on the efficient detection of single microwave frequency photons, the suppression of quasiparticles in superconducting quantum computing environments for the improvement of qubit coherence times, the development of "a deterministic scheme to generate maximal entanglement between remote superconducting atoms, using a propagating microwave photon as a flying qubit", and the realization of a hybrid quantum system by the strong, coherent coupling between a collective magnetic mode of a ferromagnetic sphere and a superconducting qubit. More recently, results have been published in which superconducting qubits were used to resolve quanta of magnon number states, to create a quantitatively non-classical photon number distribution, to measure fluctuations in a surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonator, and to measure an itinerant microwave photon in a quantum nondemolition (QND) detection experiment. A superconducting circuit was later used to realize information-to-work conversion by a Maxwell's demon, radio waves and optical light were optomechanically coupled to surface acoustic waves, and an ordered vortex lattice in a Josephson junction array was observed. Nakamura has spoken several times at quantum information science conferences and seminars, including at the University of Vienna, the Institute for Theoretical Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics at Harvard University, the National Center of Competence in Research's Quantum Science and Technology Monte Verità conference, the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), and the Yale Quantum Institute at Yale University. In 2020, Nakamura was named as a fellow of the American Physical Society for "the first demonstration of coherent time-dependent manipulation of superconducting qubits, and for contributions to the development of superconducting quantum circuits, microwave quantum optics, and hybrid quantum systems". Honors and awards 1999 – Young Investigator Award, Japan Society of Applied Physics 1999 – The 1st Sir Martin Wood Prize for Japan 1999 – The 45th Nishina Memorial Prize 2003 – TR100, MIT Technology Review 2004 – Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize (with Michel Devoret, Daniel Esteve, and Hans Mooij) 2008 – Simon Memorial Prize (with Jaw-Shen Tsai) 2014 – The 11th (with Jaw-Shen Tsai) 2018 - The 19th JSAP Outstanding Achievement Award 2020