Leong Kwek

Dr Kwek is currently a Principal Investigator (PI) at the Center for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore. He is currently a co-Director of the Quantum Science and Engineering Centre (QSEC) at the Nanyang Technological University. He was (until December 2020) also the current Deputy Secretary General of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). Other appointments include: the regional representative of Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers (USA); the Secretary General for the South East Asian Theoretical Physics Association; Council Member for Working Group 5, IUPAP, on Women in Physics; Council Member of Tan Kah Kee Foundation and International Society; the Secretary General, Federation of ASEAN Physics Societies; the President of the Asian Physics Olympiad International Board (since 2015), etc. He was one of the founding Co-Director of the Quantum Engineering Program, NRF; a past President of the Institute of Physics, Singapore (2008-2012); Fujitsu Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge (2004).

Dr Kwek has published more than 300 publications with several papers in Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Review of Modern Physics, and so forth. He is the PI or co-PI for numerous projects totaling about $43.1 million from 2021-2023). He supervises more than 25 PhD students (current and graduated). He has received numerous awards: Laureate of Scientia Vinces Award of the First President of the Republic of Sakha; Institute of Physics President Award, Singapore, National Science Award, Singapore and so forth. He is the Editor in Chief for The Physics Educator and Dandelion (Pu Gongyin), an associate Editor with AVS Quantum Science and Physical Review A, an editor of Entropy and the International Journal of Quantum Information. He is also an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Institute of Physics (UK) and the Institute of Physics Singapore.

His main research interests are foundation in quantum mechanics including quantifying multipartite quantum entanglement; quantum cryptography, quantum synchronization, quantum computation and atomtronics.