NRF CREATE RESEARCH PROGRAMME ON
QUANTUM SECURITY AND RESILIENCE FOR EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
QUASAR-CREATE is Building Trust for a Quantum-Enabled Future.
Quantum technologies will reshape how information is protected, exchanged and trusted. QUASAR-CREATE supports Singapore’s National Quantum Strategy by developing the security foundations required for this transition: open quantum-safe hardware, quantum communication security assessment, and post-quantum cryptographic migration for resilient systems and infrastructures. Through a Singapore–Germany research partnership, the programme turns quantum security from a future requirement into an engineering capability for today’s emerging technologies.
PROGRAMME PARTNERS
Supported by the National Research Foundation and NRF CREATE
NATIONAL CONTEXT
Supporting Quantum-Safe Singapore
Singapore is preparing critical digital infrastructure for the quantum era. QUASAR-CREATE contributes research, engineering, testbeds, and assurance capabilities to the Singapore quantum-security ecosystem.
RESEARCH THRUSTS
THRUST 1: HARDWARE
OPEN AND VERIFIABLE QUANTUM SAFE HARDWARE
Open Design Chips. Verifiable Trust. Quantum-Safe by Design - We develop an open and verifiable RISC-V processor platform as a future trust anchor for security-critical devices. By combining post-quantum cryptographic accelerators, side-channel-resistant hardware, secure key storage, and a hardened operating system, this thrust lays the foundation for transparent, quantum-safe hardware systems.
THRUST 2: ASSURANCE
QUANTUM COMMUNICATION SECURITY ASSURANCE
Quantum-safe communication systems must be designed so their security can be verified in practice and maintained under high-assurance requirements. This thrust develops methods, tools and capabilities that make QKD and hybrid QKD/PQC implementations testable from the outset. It connects security proofs, QKD protocol assumptions, implementation choices, component imperfections, side-channel behaviour and certification needs with practical ways to measure, simulate, evaluate and validate real systems.
THRUST 3: MIGRATION
MIGRATION AND RESILIENCE FOR FUTURE NETWORKS
Transitioning to post-quantum security requires more than replacing algorithms. This thrust develops migration models, cryptographic agility concepts and tools that help complex infrastructures move toward quantum-safe operation while strengthening long-term resilience. It investigates how PQC and hybrid PQC/QKD approaches can be integrated, evaluated and validated in emerging B5G/6G and complex 3D network environments, where security assurance, network resilience and deployability must be addressed together.
OUR TEAM
Lead-PI & Executive Management
Lam Kwok Yan
Professor, Programme Lead-PI
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Georg Sigl
Professor, Programme Lead-PI
Technical University Munich (TUM)
Harald Kuhn
Professor, Programme Lead-PI
Fraunhofer ENAS, TU Chemnitz
Michael Kasper
Assoc. Professor, Principal Investigator, Director Fraunhofer Singapore
Fraunhofer Singapore, NTU
Programme Coordination
Lena Tay
Programme Coordinator
Fraunhofer Singapore, NTU
Zhidan Zheng
Coordinator, Research Fellow
TUMCREATE
Elias X Huber
Coordinator, Research Associate
Fraunhofer Singapore, NTU
Sriram Vasudevan
Coordinator, Research Fellow
Fraunhofer Singapore, NTU
Programme Administration
Rain Teh
Manager, Thrust 1
TUMCREATE
Jodie Leong
Manager, Thrust 1
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Sze Thing Goh
Manager, Thrust 2 & 3
Fraunhofer Singapore, NTU
Thrust 1 Team Members
Georg Sigl
Professor, Programme Lead-PI
Technical University Munich (TUM)
Gwee Bah Hwee
Professor, Principal Investigator
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Ulf Schlichtmann
Professor, Principal Investigator
Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Michael Pehl
Professor, Principal Investigator
Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Zhidan Zheng
Coordinator, Research Fellow
TUMCREATE
Juncheng Chen
Research Fellow
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Kamal Raj
Research Associate
TUMCREATE
Nauman
Research Engineer
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Jeng-De Chang
Research Engineer
TUMCREATE
Sagar Hosmani
Research Engineer
TUMCREATE
Liu Shukun
PhD Student
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Zherui Zhong
Intern
TUMCREATE
Yuewei Liao
Intern
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Looi Le Lee
Intern
TUMCREATE
Thrust 2 Team Members
Harald Kuhn
Professor, Programme Lead-PI
Fraunhofer ENAS, TU Chemnitz
Michael Kasper
Assoc. Professor, Principal Investigator, Director Fraunhofer Singapore
Fraunhofer Singapore, NTU
Christian Kurtsiefer
Professor, Principal Investigator
National University Singapore (NUS)
Marco Tomamichl
Professor, Principal Investigator
National University Singapore (NUS)
Gan Chee Lip
Professor, Principal Investigator
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Marc Stöttinger
Professor, Principal Investigator
Fraunhofer ENAS, Hochschule RheinMain University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSRM)
Alexander Weiss
Professor, Principal Investigator
Fraunhofer ENAS, TU Chemnitz
Elias X Huber
Coordinator, Research Associate
Fraunhofer Singapore, NTU
Wastu Wisesa
Research Associate
Fraunhofer Singapore, NTU
Seth Hou Shun Poh
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT), NUS
Ian George
Research Fellow
Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT), NUS
Leó Weissbart
Research Engineer
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Becca Verghese
PhD Student
Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT), NUS
Bibhuti Thapa
PhD Student
Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT), NUS
Ethan Shak
Intern, Data Engineering (QKD Security)
Fraunhofer Singapore, NTU
Chun Long Tan
Intern, Data Engineering (QKD Security)
Fraunhofer Singapore, NTU
Thrust 3 Team Members
Michael Kasper
Assoc. Professor, Principal Investigator, Director Fraunhofer Singapore
Fraunhofer Singapore, NTU
Zhang Tianwei
Professor, Principal Investigator
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Daniel Loebenberger
Professor, Principal Investigator
Fraunhofer AISEC, University Amberg-Weiden
Ruben Niederhagen
Professor, Principal Investigator
Fraunhofer Singapore, Academica Sinica
Thomas Magedanz
Professor, Co-Principal Investigator, Collaborator
Fraunhofer FOKUS, TU Berlin
Sriram Vasudevan
Coordinator, Research Fellow
Fraunhofer Singapore, NTU
Siyi Wang
Research Fellow
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Nikhil Bartake
Research Engineer & PhD Student
Fraunhofer Singapore, NTU
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QUASAR-CREATE PROGRAMME
QUASAR-CREATE Programme Office
CREATE Tower
University Town, 1 CREATE Way, L15-01, Singapore 138602
By Car or Public Transport
Directions to CREATE Tower (PDF)By Taxi
Set the destination to CREATE Tower, 1 CREATE Way, Singapore 138602. Tell the driver to go to the “CREATE Drop-off Point” at NUS University Town. Approaching from the AYE, the usual route is via Exit 9 (Clementi Road), then into Kent Ridge Crescent, across College Link, and along CREATE Way to the drop-off area. From the CREATE Drop-off Point, it is a short walk down the stairs across the plaza to CREATE Tower.