Rate My Professor Hidehiro Yonezawa

Dr Hidehiro Yonezawa is a Visiting Fellow in the School of Engineering and Technology at UNSW Canberra, University of New South Wales. He obtained his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 2007 under the supervision of Professor Akira Furusawa. After completing his doctorate, he served as a Research Associate at the University of Tokyo until April 2009, when he was promoted to Project Lecturer, maintaining that role from April 2009 to September 2013. In September 2013, Dr Yonezawa was appointed Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Information Technology at UNSW Canberra, a position he holds to the present. Since 2015, he has also served as a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology.

Dr Yonezawa's research centers on experimental quantum optics, quantum information, and quantum control. His key contributions include the generation of non-classical quantum states of light such as squeezed states, continuous-variable quantum teleportation, adaptive optical phase estimation, measurement-based quantum computation, coherent-control quantum computation, and quantum tomography. He has authored over 100 journal articles, along with conference papers and a book chapter. Notable publications encompass "Quantum-Enhanced Optical-Phase Tracking" (Science, 2012), "Generation of time-domain-multiplexed two-dimensional cluster state" (Science, 2019), "Ultra-large-scale continuous-variable cluster states multiplexed in the time domain" (Nature Photonics, 2013), "Demonstration of a quantum teleportation network for continuous variables" (Nature, 2004), "Observation of -9 dB quadrature squeezing with improvement of phase stability in homodyne measurement" (Optics Express, 2007), and more recent works such as "Fast State Stabilization Using Deep Reinforcement Learning for Measurement-based Quantum Feedback Control" (IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering, 2025) and "Fault-tolerant H∞ control for optical parametric oscillators with pumping fluctuations" (Automatica, 2022). Dr Yonezawa received the Young Scientists’ Prize, part of the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan in 2014, and the Incentive Award from the Laser Society of Japan in 2009 for high-fidelity quantum teleportation. He contributed the chapter "High-fidelity quantum teleportation and a quantum teleportation network" in Quantum Information with Continuous Variables of Atoms and Light (2007). His research has advanced quantum technologies in computation and communication.