Masahito Ueda is a professor in the Department of Physics at University of Tokyo. His research interests include Bose-Einstein condensation, superfluidity, and information thermodynamics. He has published widely in his field, including in such journals as Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

He received his PhD from University of Tokyo in 1991 and has been in his present position since 2008, following posts at other universities in Japan, including Tokyo Institute for Technology and Hiroshima University.