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The other pole of Chinese quantum info alongside Pan — introduced quantum optics/QI to China in the 1980s–90s; co-founder Origin Quantum; still actively co-authoring QKD network papers (2025–26)

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Zhengfu Han

Professor, USTC (CAS Key Lab of Quantum Information, Guo's lineage); Chairman & co-founder, Qasky (安徽问天量子, Wuhu)

Heads the non-Pan USTC QKD network group (with Shuang Wang, Wei Chen) — practical QKD networking, heterogeneous prepare-and-measure networks. Qasky co-founded with Guo Guangcan and Cai Jiren; the DV-QKD vendor of the Guo lineage (QuantumCTek is the Pan lineage)

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Zeng Guihua 曾贵华

Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Director, Institute of Quantum Sensing & Information Processing (QSIP); Chairman & founder, Shanghai Xuntai (循态量子 / XT Quantech)

China's principal CV-QKD line — GG02-family systems commercialised via Xuntai (1U and PCIe-card CV-QKD terminals, QRNG modules); CEO/co-founder Wang Chao (汪超) runs product side

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Research / academia

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Artur Ekert

Professor, Oxford; founding Director, CQT Singapore; also affiliated with OIST

E91 protocol; shaped Singapore's quantum ecosystem

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Charles Lim

Global Head of Quantum Communications & Cryptography, JPMorgan Chase; Assoc Prof NUS (on leave since 2022)

Finite-key proofs; device-independent QKD (Nature 2022); shaped NUS/Singapore QKD security proof capability

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Christian Kurtsiefer

Professor, NUS; PI, CQT; co-founder S-Fifteen Instruments

Entangled-photon QKD; detector-side implementation security work; CQT's long-running experimental QKD lineage

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José Ignacio Latorre

Director, CQT (since 2020); Provost's Chair Professor, NUS Physics; Lead PI, National Quantum Computing Hub

CQT elevated to flagship national research centre under National Quantum Strategy (Jan 2025) — spans NTU, NUS, SUTD, A*STAR

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Valerio Scarani

Professor, NUS; PI, CQT

SARG04 protocol co-inventor; canonical QKD security review (RMP 2009); device-independence foundations

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Hao Qin

CQT

QKD standardisation/certification gap analysis; ETSI/ITU-facing

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Kwek Leong Chuan

PI, CQT; NTU/NIE

Quantum networks theory; prolific SG-based theory output; regional (Asia-Pacific) quantum community roles

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Manas Mukherjee

PI, CQT / A*STAR; National Quantum Fabless Foundry

Ion traps; SG quantum hardware fabrication capability (adjacent to comms)

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Security proofs / theory

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Renato Renner

Professor, ETH Zürich

Composable security framework; finite-key analysis — reference point for proof rigour

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Norbert Lütkenhaus

Professor, IQC Waterloo

Practical/implementation security; numerical proof methods; Vice-Chair, ETSI ISG QKD

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Marcos Curty

Professor, University of Vigo; VQCC

MDI-QKD co-inventor (with Lo); implementation security

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Hoi-Kwong Lo

Professor, University of Toronto

Decoy-state QKD; MDI-QKD co-inventor — both prerequisites for deployable BB84

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Charles Lim

Global Head of Quantum Communications & Cryptography, JPMorgan Chase; Assoc Prof NUS (on leave since 2022)

Finite-key proofs; device-independent QKD (Nature 2022); shaped NUS/Singapore QKD security proof capability

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Anthony Leverrier

Researcher, Inria Paris

CV-QKD security proofs

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Protocol innovation / experimental records

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Marco Lucamarini

Professor, University of York (ex-Toshiba Cambridge)

TF-QKD inventor (2018) — key rate-loss scaling advance of the decade; ETSI ISG QKD contributor

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Qiang Zhang

Professor, USTC

Fibre QKD distance/rate records; TF-QKD field deployments

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Feihu Xu

Professor, USTC

TF-QKD experiments; measurement-device independence

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Eleni Diamanti

CNRS Research Director, Sorbonne (LIP6)

CV-QKD experiments; EU deployment projects (e.g. EuroQCI-adjacent); satellite CV-QKD

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Philippe Grangier

CNRS, Institut d'Optique

GG02 CV-QKD protocol co-inventor (with Grosshans)

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Industrial / systems / standards

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Martin Ward

Toshiba Europe

Chair, ETSI ISG QKD — QKD protection profile / Common Criteria certification track

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Andrew Shields

VP & Head of Quantum Technology Division, Toshiba Europe; FRS 2026

Co-founder & former Chair, ETSI ISG QKD; TF-QKD demos; Toshiba systems used in NQSN+ deployments

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Vicente Martín

Professor, UPM Madrid

Vice-Chair, ETSI ISG QKD; Madrid Quantum Network (QKD on live telco infra)

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Momtchil Peev

Huawei Munich/Düsseldorf

Vice-Chair & co-founder, ETSI ISG QKD; SECOQC lineage

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Grégoire Ribordy

CEO & co-founder, ID Quantique

Vendor behind Singtel's Clarion KX deployment (NQSN+)

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Hugo Zbinden

Professor, University of Geneva

Detectors, practical QKD systems

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Masahide Sasaki

NICT, Japan (Distinguished Researcher)

Led Japanese QKD deployment for decades — Tokyo QKD Network (2010–); ITU-T QKDN standardisation (Y.38xx series lineage); ETSI ISG QKD contributor; bridge between Japanese national programme and international standards

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Michele Mosca

Professor, IQC / University of Waterloo; CEO & co-founder, evolutionQ (with Lütkenhaus and David Jao)

"Mosca's theorem" (X+Y vs Z migration-timing framing); co-founder, ETSI/IQC Quantum Safe Cryptography conference series & Programme Committee Chair; Quantum Threat Timeline Report (with GRI); Chair, Quantum Industry Canada — the central figure in quantum-risk framing for policy/enterprise audiences

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Implementation attacks / certification

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Vadim Makarov

Group Leader, Quantum Hacking & Certification Lab, Vigo Quantum Communication Center (since 2023)

Detector blinding, Trojan-horse attacks; certification methodology; the counterweight literature to vendor claims — his attacks motivated MDI-QKD as design philosophy

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