Our Origin Story
Q-Life Corp. was incorporated in October 2025 by three founders united by both professional expertise and a deeply personal mission: addressing the growing challenge of caring for aging family members living with chronic conditions and increasing care needs.
The founding team brings together world-class engineering expertise and experienced venture leadership. Q-Life is led by Dr. Ruben Ceballos (CEO), Dr. Kee S. Moon (CTO), and Dr. Sung Q. Lee (COO). Together, they formed the company to develop a new generation of continuous health monitoring technologies designed to support safer aging and improve clinical outcomes across skilled nursing facilities, home health, and aging-in-place environments.
A Research Partnership Two Decades in the Making
The technical foundation behind Q-Life spans more than two decades. In 1999–2000, Dr. Kee Moon was serving as research faculty at Michigan Technological University while Dr. Sung Lee was a visiting scholar. Their early collaboration resulted in an academic publication and launched a long-standing research partnership. Since that time, they have collaborated on more than 20 academic publications and conference proceedings and six patent applications focused on sensor technologies and advanced monitoring systems.
The work that ultimately evolved into the Q-Life platform began in late 2019, when Drs. Moon and Lee began developing early concepts for a wearable sensing system capable of continuously monitoring physiological and behavioral signals. Over the following seven years, they secured multiple research grants supporting the development and refinement of the technology. This work culminated in the creation of the Q-GAM prototype device, the platform that Q-Life is now commercializing.
The Engineering Foundation
A major part of Q-Life's origin is grounded in the work of Dr. Kee S. Moon, whose decades of research in intelligent sensors, wearable medical technologies, and real-time health-monitoring systems laid the technical groundwork for the company. As a professor and research leader at San Diego State University, Dr. Moon has led interdisciplinary efforts to develop portable sensing platforms capable of capturing physiologic, movement, and behavioral signals continuously outside of traditional clinical environments. Over the course of his career, he has secured more than $47 million in research funding. That combination of deep engineering expertise, translational innovation, and long-term commitment to health-focused sensing is a core reason Q-Life exists today.
Dr. Sung Q. Lee brings extensive experience leading large-scale research initiatives. Prior to relocating to San Diego, he served as Director of Brain-Links Creative Research at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in South Korea, where he led advanced technology programs. Throughout his career, Dr. Lee has secured over $23 million in research funding as a principal investigator supporting next-generation sensing and monitoring technologies.
In 2024, Dr. Lee made the strategic decision to relocate to San Diego in order to launch a company built around the wearable monitoring platform he and Dr. Moon had been developing. Shortly thereafter, their work received additional validation when Dr. Moon and Dr. Lee were awarded a $45,000 Pilot Innovation Fund grant from the San Diego State University Research Foundation in August 2025, helping advance the technology toward commercialization.
Bringing It All Together
While Drs. Moon and Lee were continuing to advance the platform, they met Dr. Ruben Ceballos in the summer of 2025. Dr. Ceballos had recently relocated to San Diego in May 2025 serving as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at Brazos Innovation Partners, where he was helping expand the firm's venture studio initiatives at San Diego State University.
Dr. Ceballos brings more than 25 years of experience working with entrepreneurs, investors, and university research teams across the launch, growth, and exit phases of venture-backed companies. His work has focused heavily on commercializing university-based research and translating scientific innovation into scalable businesses. He also brings more than 20 years of experience working with life science technologies and healthcare systems. This experience is complemented by his doctoral research examining the characteristics of successfully funded startups and the motivations of investors who back early-stage ventures.
Recognizing the commercial potential of the technology developed by Drs. Moon and Lee, the three founders combined their complementary expertise — deep engineering innovation and experienced venture leadership — to launch Q-Life.
Our Mission
Together, the founding team is building a platform designed to transform how aging populations are monitored and cared for. By combining advanced wearable sensing with intelligent analytics, Q-Life aims to enable earlier detection of health deterioration and support better clinical decision-making across skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, and aging-in-place environments.