Dr. Jirawat Tangpanitanon is the CEO and co-founder of the Quantum Technology Foundation (Thailand) [QTFT] and also serves as a research fellow at the Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics. Based in Bangkok, he collaborates with leading STEM talents and corporations in Thailand to bring advanced optimization solutions to life using digital and quantum technologies.

During his PhD, he focused on quantum simulation at the Center for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore. In 2018, he was awarded Google's Quantum Innovations award for the development of a spectroscopy technique used to characterize Google's quantum computer. This work was published in Science.

At QTFT, he has been collaborating with corporate partners to deliver optimization solutions in various areas, including Air Traffic Management, Financial Asset Management, Logistics Optimization, Virtual Power Plants, and Production Planning.

Given Thailand's economic growth and rising business complexity, he believes that Thailand and Southeast Asia will serve as a valuable testbed for developing use cases for quantum optimization, some of which could be the first in the world. Dr. Jirawat and his team are working diligently every day to make that vision a reality.