The article provides insights into the entrepreneurial journey of Chune Yang Lum, the Co-founder and CEO of SpeQtral. SpeQtral is pioneering the development of space-based quantum systems for secure key delivery on a global scale. By harnessing technology, it is transforming security infrastructure, ensuring protection for sensitive data worldwide.
Chune Yang Lum: Co-founder and CEO of SpeQtral
Chune Yang Lum is the founder and CEO of SpeQtral. He has an educational background in physics and quantum. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the National University of Singapore and an MSc from Penn State University. He completed his MBA from INSEAD.
Chune Yang Lum was a Research Assistant at the Centre for Quantum Technologies where he experimented on quantum information technology. He worked as an Associate Consultant at ZS Associates and a Summer Associate at Deutsche Bank. Later he worked as a Senior Manager for business development Asia-Pacific at SES and Deputy Director at National University of Singapore. Chune Yang Lum was a Head of Strategic Development at the Centre for Quantum Technologies and later became an Advisor for Industry Relations.
Chune Yang Lum has about 15+ experience in quantum, space, and telecommunication fields. His knowledge of both business and technology has led him to start his own company. Chune Yang Lum along with Dr. Robert Bedington co-founded SpeQtral in the year 2017. SpeQtral is a tech startup that develops space-based quantum systems to secure global networks through encryption keys.
About SpeQtral
SpeQtral is a tech startup that uses quantum science and develops quantum key distribution communication networks for securing global networks and providing data security for governments, corporations, etc. SpeQtral was founded by Chune Yang Lum in the year 2017 and has its headquarters located in Singapore. SpeQtral aims to secure networks for the fast-approaching quantum revolution with their QKD and PQC solutions.
Technology Solutions
SpeQtral, along with technology and harnessing the fundamental laws of the universe aims to protect digital communications. By using the power of quantum properties like entanglement it is possible to make cryptographic keys safer from interception and also create a naturally and perpetually secure system. The main backbone and strength of a global quantum internet are satellite Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). The computing revolution renters several mathematical cryptographic protocols hence protecting encrypted data from bad actors who are waiting to intercept and store encrypted data for later use.
Chune Yang says “QKD by embedding the secret key in particles of light and transmitting it across to the end users, will help to secure and encrypt any communication or data that we transmit to each other.”
Projects of SpeQtral
SpeQtral made a partnership with Telcos and is been working on the implementation of a fiber-based Quantum Key Distribution Solution to provide safer protection for metropolitan networks. Quantum-safe global network is done by using symmetric quantum keys generated and transmitted from satellites as they cannot be hacked and provide a secure communication infrastructure for the long run. A global quantum fabric represents hardware and software systems that are integrated with Quantum-Safe Satellite and Quantum-Safe Terrestrial networks.
SpeQtral is building Singapore’s quantum-safe network with the support of the Singapore government. It is implementing an islands-wide national safe network that can be extended globally. SpooQy-1 is the first cube-sat in the world developed in the year 2019. It has successfully done the operations of polarization-entangled sources and detectors in space. SpeQtre will be launched by 2025 in collaboration with RAL Space which is the second-gen entangled photon source and built based on lessons learnt from SpooQy-1. SpeQtral-1 is a tech demonstrator and aims to validate global QKD distribution from space.
Products
SpeQtral will operate satellites and infrastructure to provide services to the user but if they wish to operate their infrastructure then it can provide hardware solutions. The different products of SpeQtral are SpooQie satellite, QuantOptix satellite, SQUINT, TarQIS, and Backend Quantum Unit (BQU).
Comprising a group of expert teams that are well-versed in quantum physics, communication, aerospace, optics, and system engineering, under the leadership of Chune Yang Lum, SpeQtral is been doing a great job of transforming the world’s networks for the quantum revolution and securing global networks.