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KWEK Leong-Chuan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current Appointment

Associate Professor
 

Visiting Appointment

Fujitsu Visiting Professorship,

University of Cambridge, 2004

 

Office

NIE 7-03-86
 

Telephone

(65) 6790-3823 (Office)
(65) 6874-2818 (NUS)

Fax

(65) 6896-9434
 

Email

lckwek(at)nie.edu.sg

 

 

Academic Background

B.Sc. Joint Hons (Otago)
Dip. Ed. With Distinction (NUS)
M.Sc. (NUS); Ph. D. (NUS)
 

Professional Organisations

Institute of Physics, Singapore (Vice-President);  SEA Theoretical Physics Association (Council Member);
American Mathematical Society (AMS);
Singapore Mathematics Society (SMS);
Assoc. of Math Educators (AME);
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS);
American Physical Society (APS)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Information

Dr Kwek's research interest ranges from quantum information science (done in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, Gdansk and Geneva) to biophysics (bioimaging techniques and bioinformatics). He is a local driver for an A*Star project on quantum information technology and a Fujitsu Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge.  In particular, in the last two years, he has been working on quantum cryptography, quantum algorithms, geometric quantum computation and quantum networks (see the Quantum Lah website )
 

 

 

Courses

MLS 815: Physics in Medicine

MLS 817: Biological Information Theory

MLS 840: Bioimaging

MLS 842: Nanotechnology

 

 

 

Research Interests

Quantum Information Science and Biomedical Imaging
 

 

 

Research Grants

Local Driver for A*Star Project on Quantum Information Technology (A*Star Grant 012-104-0040, $4,999,750); Principal investigator: Quantum and Biological information (NIE RP 14/00 KLC, $25,990), Distinguishing diseased tissues from normal tissues using time resolved autofluorescence technique, laser confocal microscopy and atomic force microscopy (NIE RP 21/02 KLC, $145.456); CoInvestigator: Quantum games (NIE RP 15/01 CLK, $7.564); Excitation Emission spectroscopy studies of lung, colon/rectum and GI tissues for improved cancer detection of the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts using tissue autofluorescence,$107,950), Quantum entanglement (NUS R -144-000-089-112, $168,908), Geometric phase and its applications (R-144-000-054-112, $87.350)
 

 

 

Professional Activities

Since 2001:  Council Member (SEATPA)
2003:  Curriculum Review Committee (Physics, GCE Adv Level)
2003:  Corporate Planning Committee
2004:  Institute of Physics , Singapore : Vice-President

2004:  National Nanotechnology TechScan Panel Member

 

 

Other Professional Activities

Member, curriculum review committee, Ministry of Education (2004-2005); Member, Strategic planning committee (Corporate seminar), Ministry of Education (2004); External Validator, School Excellence Model; Member, National Nanotechnology Scan Team; Member, Singapore Millenium Foundation Selection Committee; Editor, International Journal of Quantum Information; Reviewer, Mathematics Review (AMS, USA); Vice President, Institute of Physics (Singapore); Council member, Association of South-East Asia Theoretical Physics;

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conferences

(Selected)

2006: LPhys 06 (Lausanne)

2005: LPhys 05 (Kyoto)

2005: Workshop on Quantum Statistics and Related Topics (Tokyo)
2004: First Asia-Pacific Conference on Quantum Information Science (Tainan ); Workshop in Quantum Information Science (Taipei )                             

2003: Benaques Conference on QIS (Spain)
2003: Third Conf. of ESF Prog. on QIT (Erice, Italy)
2001-2002: Fourth and Fifth NTU-SGH Biomedical Engineering Symposium
2000: Conference of Quantum Unspeakables in Honor of John Bell (Vienna, Austria)
 

 

 

Selected Publications

 

 

 

 

 

 
  1. A.K. Ekert, C. Moura-Aves, D.K.L. Oi, M. Horodecki, P. Horodecki and L.C. Kwek, Phys. Rev. Lett., 88, 217901  (2002)
  2. D. Kaslikowski, L.C. Kwek, M. Zukowski and B.G. Englert,Phys. Rev. Lett., 91, 037901 (2003) .
  3. J.F. Du, P. Zou, M. Shi, L.C. Kwek, J.W. Pan, C.H. Oh, A. Ekert, D.K.L. Oi and M. Ericsson,  Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 100403 (2003)
  4. A. Acin, J.L. Chen, N. Gisin, D. Kaszlikowski, L.C. Kwek, C.H. Oh and M. Zukowski,  Phys. Rev. Lett., 92, 250404 (2004)
  5. D. M. Tong, E. Sjoqvist, L. C. Kwek, and C. H. Oh,  Phys. Rev. Lett. , 93, 080405, 2004
  6. Jingling Chen, Chunfeng Wu, L.C. Kwek and C.H. Oh,  Phys. Rev. Lett. , 93, 140407, 2004
  7. Jiangfeng Du, Thomas Durt, Ping Zou, Hui Li, L.C. Kwek, C.H. Lai, C.H. Oh, Artur Ekert, Phys. Rev. Lett., 94, 040505 (2005)
  8. Yuan-Liang Lim, Almut Beige and L.C. Kwek, Phys. Rev. Lett., 030505 (2005)
  9. D.M. Tong, K. Singh, L.C. Kwek, C.H. Oh, Phys. Rev. Lett., 110407 (2005)
  10. Xiong-Jun Liu, Xin Liu, L.C. Kwek, C.H. Oh, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 026602 (2007)
  11. D.M. Tong, K. Singh, L.C. Kwek, C.H. Oh, Phys. Rev. Lett., (2007)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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