Keio University

Hikaru Yokomori (1st-year Master's student, Graduate School of Media and Governance) received the "Poster Presentation Award" at Quantum Innovation 2025

Publish: October 30, 2025
Faculty of Policy Management/Faculty of Environment and Information Studies/Graduate School of Media and Governance

Hikaru Yokomori (1st-year Master's student at the Graduate School of Media and Governance at the time of the award), a member of Professor Rodney Van Meter's laboratory in the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, received the "Poster Presentation Award" in the Quantum Cryptography and Communication category at Quantum Innovation 2025.

Quantum Innovation is an annual international conference held as a forum for sharing the latest research results in the field of quantum technology and for interaction among researchers from industry, academia, and government. Quantum Innovation 2025, held in Osaka, was attended by many researchers from Japan and abroad, and there were 116 applications for poster presentations.

Mr. Yokomori presented the results of demonstrating "Distimation," a new error estimation method for quantum networks, on a superconducting quantum computer under the title "Distimation's Real-world Performance on a Superconducting Quantum Computer." He was recognized for achieving noise estimation, which was previously difficult, through a distillation-based method, contributing to the future practical application of quantum communication networks.

(From left) Michal Hajdušek, Project Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Media and Governance; Mr. Yokomori; and Rodney Van Meter, Professor at the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies

Award Title

Distimation's Real-world Performance on a Superconducting Quantum Computer

Hikaru Yokomori

Comment from Hikaru Yokomori

I am very honored to receive the "Poster Award." I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the professors in my laboratory and my collaborators for their daily guidance and support in conducting this research. Encouraged by this award, I will continue to work diligently on my research to contribute to the development of quantum networks.

Source: Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office, General Affairs Section