Chief Scientist・Quantum Technology・Artificial Intelligence
NASA-trained Commercial Astronaut
“We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.”
— Richard Feynman
We stand on the shores of a vast cosmic ocean, with untold continents of possibility to explore. As we continue forwards in our collective journey, scaling the cosmic ladder of evolution, progressing onwards, expanding our reach outwards in the transition to a multiplanetary species — Earth will soon be a destination, not just a point of origin.
From early childhood, I set out to convey a profound and positive impact on the long-term future of humanity — to make the world a better place for our children, our children's children, and the generations yet to come. As we're collectively propelled forwards as a species, I committed to ensuring core values of balance, integrity, and ethical responsibility are upheld with paramount importance in scientific research and principal government leadership. With unprecedented leaps and bounds of progress in our scientific understanding — enabled by the development of converging and expanding exponential technologies — newfound, unexpected discoveries await, just over the horizon.
Rapid advances in fields such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, molecular nanotechnology, neuroscience, renewable energy, spaceflight, supercomputing and quantum technologies — each enabled by the recursive technological progress of Moore’s Law doubling in computer processing power, speed and complexity — will converge to confer radical changes to society over the coming decades, as we move forward in the collective transition towards the dawn of a post-scarcity economy. The future is unbounded. The responsibility falls upon us to ensure that its limitless potential is filled with dreams of hope, happiness, freedom and fulfillment.
In tribute to timeless, inspiring, and visionary friend, colleague, collaborator, and coauthor Serguei Krasnikov (1961 – 2024) — whose midnight brainstorming sessions and legendary time travel parties at Starlab will echo through the ages. May we carry forward his boldest dreams, fulfill his most audacious ambitions, and meet again — somewhere, sometime — just beyond the horizon.
- Astronaut scientists for hire open new research frontier in space
Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence Network (NASA Ames Research Center) - Quantum Information Science and Technology Project
ARO/DARPA/NSA US National Quantum Roadmap (Tokyo) - State of the Future, Live two-hour radio interview (San Francisco)
- Keynote on the Future of Space Exploration broadcast live to 80 cities around the world (Amsterdam)
- Astronaut Deployment of a Secure Space Communications Network
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC), Office of the Chief Technologist (OCT), DARPA QUINESS Macroscopic Quantum Communications - Spacetime from Quantum Topology
Springer Science, in Spacetime from Quantum Topology (2016) - Superposed Quantum Network Topologies
International Journal of Theoretical Physics Vol. 43, 2029-2040, (2004) - Backpropagation in Adaptive Quantum Networks
International Journal of Theoretical Physics Vol. 49, 2991–2997, (2010) - Accelerated Training Convergence in Superposed Quantum Networks
NATO Advanced Study Institute on Mining Massive Data Sets for Security (Amsterdam) - Quantum Machine Learning in Adaptive Quantum Networks
PhD Précis (Honours) - Global Inspirational Leaders Award
2023 Global Inspirational Leaders Awards (Dubai, UAE) - Converging Technologies: The Future of the Global Information Society Chairman, UNISCA First Committee on Disarmament and International Security, recipient of the annual RSA Information Security Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Policy (Barcelona)
- Microlens Array Fabrication Quantum Coherent Information Processing
Kavli Institute of Nanoscience (Delft) - Quantum Dynamics Research
理化学研究所 RIKEN, Frontier Research Laboratory (Tokyo) - Korean Quantum Information Research
The Korean Institute for Advanced Studies (Seoul) - SOKENDAI Quantum Information Science
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Tokyo) - Quantum Algorithms Research
東京理科大学 Frontier Research Center (Tokyo) - Quantum circuit complexity
Tokyo University of Electrocommunications (Tokyo) - Quantum R&D Programs of Japan
ATIP QUIST Project (Tokyo) - International Conference on Quantum Information
ICQI Italy–Japan (Tokyo) - The Noah’s Ark of Scientific Research that Launched 1,000 Start-ups
Sifted (Financial Times Europe, Brussels) - Starlab – Deep Future, Discovery Channel Special (Brussels)
- Krasnikov on Closed Timelike Curves
Krasnikov on Life, the Universe and Everything (Brussels) - Experimental confirmation of Bell inequality violations in entangled photon pairs, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience (Delft)
- NASA Quantum AI Laboratory (QuAIL), NASA Ames Research Center
- Warp Drive Development, Limitless Institute
