M 51 core Quantum Networking QKD Singapore

Alexander Ling

The single most connected person across SG quantum comms research, industry, and deployment

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Positions

Professor & Principal Investigator · Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT)

verified 2026-07-08
Director, Quantum Engineering Programme (QEP)

verified 2026-07-08
Lead PI, National Quantum-Safe Network (NQSN) testbed

verified 2026-07-08

Selected publications

Entanglement demonstration on board a nano-satellite (SpooQy-1) — Optica, 2020

Companies

SpeQtral — co-founder
S-Fifteen Instruments — co-founder

Collaborators & adjacent figures

M 52 · Christian Kurtsiefer CQT experimental QKD lineage; S-Fifteen co-founder
M 58 · Lum Chune Yang SpeQtral co-founder

Observation notes

CubeSat entanglement sources (SpooQy-1), the SpeQtre mission with SpeQtral, and the NQSN national testbed. Bridges CQT research, spin-out industry, and national deployment — the hub node of the Singapore quantum-communications cluster.