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Shigetora Miyashita

• Profile
  Shigetora Miyashita is a researcher at the SoftBank's Research Institute of Advanced Technology. He received his B.A. in Environment and Information Studies from the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, in 2023. He completed his M.Eng. at the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management, School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, in 2025. He joined SoftBank in April 2025.
• Research areas
  • Design and analysis of quantum algorithms in computer-aided engineering
  • Resource estimations for fault-tolerant quantum simulation of partial differential equations
• Major awards
  Student Encouragement Award, “Performance Analysis of Sample-Based Quantum Diagonalization”, 13th symposium of SIG on Quantum Software, the Information Processing Society of Japan, 2025/3/17
• Major achievements
  • Shigetora Miyashita, Takeshi Sato, Kenichi Ishikawa, “Simulating high-harmonic generation from a hydrogen atom driven by quantum light”, The 72nd JSAP Spring Meeting,　the Japan Society of Applied Physics, 2025/03/14
  • S. Miyashita, Y. Kawashima, H. Kobayashi, H. Horii, “Performance Analysis of Sample-Based Quantum Diagonalization”, 13th symposium of SIG on Quantum Software, the Information Processing Society of Japan, 2024/10/21
  • S. Miyashita, T. Satoh, M. Sugawara, N. Benchasattabuse, K. M. Nakanishi, M. Hajdušek, H. Choi, R. Van Meter, “Towards digital quantum simulation of quantum field theories in curved spacetime”, 13th annual conference on Relativistic Quantum Information (North), 2023/6/17
  • S. Miyashita, T. Satoh, N. Benchasattabuse, M. Sugawara, “Quantum simulation of Dirac, Majorana, and Weyl fermions in first quantization”, 2nd International Symposium on Trans-Scale Quantum Science, 2022/11/8
• Research areas and achievements as a student
  • FY2022 NICT Quantum Camp (Exploration human resources cultivation program), “Quantum algorithms for simulating the Dirac equation in curved spacetime”
  • FY2019 MITOU Target Program (Nakai, Miyashita, Tanetani PJ), “Development of image generation programs using quantum adversarial networks”