Personal Biography

Yu He’s research field is quantum physics and quantum computation in solid-state systems. His Ph.D. supervisors are Prof. Chao-Yang Lu and Prof. Jian-Wei Pan. On self‐assembled quantum dots, he mainly worked on the direction of demonstrating quantum supremacy using a boson sampling machine, including two works, one is boson sampling in a time‐bin architecture by exploring temporal mode, and another one is boson sampling in an integrated circuit using spatial mode (Top ten scientific breakthroughs of China in 2017, Nature Photonics, 11, 361 (2017)). Then he became a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology in Professor Michelle Y. Simmons's group at UNSW, Sydney. At UNSW, he focused on silicon quantum computing with phosphorus donors. There are multiple works: demonstrating the first two-qubit gate between phosphorus donors in silicon (Nature, 571, 371 (2019), a milestone work, listed by Medium as one of the "Top 10 quantum computing experiments of 2019"), and he also joined the first atomic quantum integrated circuits for quantum simulation (Nature, 606, 694 (2022)). In total, he has published 27 peer-reviewed journal articles (2 Nature, 2 Nature Photonics, 2 Nature Nanotechnology, and 10 Physical Review Letters) and 5000 citations. H-index 22. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8892-9425

Education Background

Sep 2009 – Jun 2015

Doctor of Natural Science, in Physics

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Department of Modern Physics, Hefei, China

Thesis title: Quantum optics and quantum networks with spins and photons

Supervisors: Prof. Chao-Yang Lu, Prof. Jian-Wei Pan

Sep 2005 – Jul 2009

Bachelor of Science (Atomic, molecular and optical physics)

USTC, Department of Modern Physics

Hefei, China

Working Experience

Feb 2025 – present

Researcher, PI

International Quantum Academy, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Mar 2020 – Jan 2025

Researcher, PI

IQSE, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

Postdoctoral Senior Research Fellow

ARC Center of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication technology (CQC2T), University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney

Prof. Michelle Y. Simmons group

Jul 2015 – Jan 2016

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, USTC, Hefei, China

Prof. Chao-Yang Lu group

Papers and Patents

1. Hu, G. et al. Single-Electron Spin Qubits in Silicon for Quantum Computing. SPJ Intelligent Computing, 4, 0115 (2025).

2. Zhang, S. et al. Acceptor-based qubit in silicon with tunable strain. Physical Review B, 107, 255301, (2023).

3. Kiczynski, M. et al. Engineering topological states in atom-based semiconductor quantum dots. Nature, 606,694 (2022).

4. Krauth, F. et al. Flopping-mode electric dipole spin resonance in phosphorus donor qubits in silicon. Phys. Rev. Appl., 17, 054006 (2022).

5. Keith, D. et al. Impact of charge noise on electron exchange interactions in semiconductors. npj Quantum Information. 8, 1-8 (2022).

6. Fricke, L. et al. Coherent control of a donor-molecule electron spin qubit in silicon. Nature Comms. 12, 3323 (2021).

7. He, Y. et al. A two-qubit gate between phosphorus donor electrons in silicon. Nature, 571, 371 (2019).

8. He, Y. et al. Time-bin-encoded boson sampling with a single-photon device. Physical Review Letters, 118, 190501 (2017).

9. Wang, H. et al. High-efficiency multiphoton boson sampling. Nature Photonics, 11, 361 (2017).

10. He, Y. et al. Quantum State Transfer from a Single Photon to a Distant Quantum-Dot Electron Spin. Physical Review Letters, 119, 60501 (2017).

Honors and Awards

2020 MIT Technology Review’s The Innovators Under 35

2015 The Special Award of Chair of Chinese Academy of Science, CAS