Committee

Inder Monga is the Director of the Scientific NetworkingDivision at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Executive Director of Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), the Department of Energy’s high-performance network user facilities. Inder works to advance the science of networking for collaborative and distributed research applications, as well as contributes to ongoing research projects tackling quantum networking and the programmability, analytics, and quality of experience driving convergence between application layer and the network.

Inder is the PI of the QUANT-NET project, which aims to establish a three-node quantum network research testbed between two sites, Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, connected with an entanglement swapping substrate over optical fibers and management by a quantum network protocol stack. Inder received a B.S. in electrical/electronics engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India, and a master’s in computer engineering from Boston University.

Rodney Van Meter received a B.S. in engineering and applied science from the California Institute of Technology in 1986, an M.S. in computer engineering from the University of Southern California in 1991, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Keio University in 2006. His current research centers on quantum computer architecture, quantum networking and quantum education. He is the author of the book Quantum Networking and coauthor of the undergraduate textbook Quantum Communications. Other research interests include storage systems, networking, and post-Moore’s Law computer architecture. He is now a Professor of Environment and Information Studies at Keio University’s Shonan Fujisawa Campus.

He is the Vice Center Chair of Keio’s Quantum Computing Center, co-chair of the Quantum Internet Research Group, a leader of the Quantum Internet Task Force, and a board member of the WIDE Project. Dr. Van Meter is a member of AAAS, ACM, APS, and IEEE. He is currently Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering.

Shota Nagayama is a Senior Researcher at Mercari, Inc. and a Project Associate Professor at Keio University. He holds a Ph.D. in Media and Governance. He specializes in quantum internet, distributed quantum computing, and quantum error correction codes, particularly quantum internet/computer architectures & communication protocols. As a professional in the information engineering field, he has been collaborating with quantum physicists, founded and serves as the director of the Quantum Internet Task Force, and is the lead author of the white paper for QITF. Also serves as the Project Manager for a project demonstrating integrated quantum networks aimed at distributed quantum computing within the JST Moonshot R&D Program – a large-scale national project aiming for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing in Japan, a board member of the WIDE project, and a secretary of the Information Processing Society of Japan’s Special Interest Group on Quan- tum Software. Formerly, he was a member of the Research, Academic, and Government Collaboration Strategy Working Group at the National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity of the Cabinet Secretariat.

Joaquin Chung is a research scientist in computer networking and system software at the University of Chicago and he holds a joint appointment at the Data Science and Learning Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He is a co-PI of the InterQnet project, a testbed that aims to demonstrate entanglement generation between two different qubit platforms using a third qubit platform as a repeater node. Joaquin’s work also aims to advance the understanding of how a scalable quantum network architecture should evolve by developing the SeQUeNCe simulator. He received his Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2017) at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. He is a Fulbright alumn, an IEEE senior member, and an ACM member. Joaquin served as a member of the technical program committee for QCE22, QCE23, and QCE24. He also co-organized the SeQUeNCe tutorials that were presented in QCE22 and QCE23, and the first workshop on Quantum Network Simulations in QCE24. Joaquin served as a member of the technical program committee for the International Conference on Quantum Communications, Networking, and Computing (QCNC 2024), and as co-chair of the track on Simulators, Demonstrations, Prototypes and Testbeds at QCNC 2025.

Wenji Wu is a network research engineer in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Scientific Networking Division, where he works on quantum networks, high-speed networking, and distributed systems. Dr. Wu is the PI on two DOE network research projects. He is currently working on the QUANT-NET project, which aims to build a three-node quantum network testbed in Berkeley area. Dr. Wu co-chaired the Quantum Networking & Communications (QNC) session at QCE'22. He served as a member of the technical program committee for QCE23, QCE24, and QCE25. Dr. Wu also served as a member of the technical program committee for the International Conference on Quantum Communications, Networking, and Computing (QCNC 2025), The 1st Workshop on Quantum Networked Applications and Protocols (QuNAP 2025),  and The 2nd Workshop on Quantum Networks and Distributed Quantum Computing (QuNet).