Chen, Zhi Xiong


2000
Nationality: Singapore
Current Job: Assistant Dean (Education), NUS Medicine
Graduation: 2009
Faculty and Department: Integrative Sciences and Engineering
Undergraduate University and Country: National University of Singapore, Singapore

Why did you choose to do a PhD?

Yes, absolutely. It is what I have always wanted to do. I enjoy the intense and prolonged thinking processes and mental gymnastics that goes into a PhD.


Why did you choose to do graduate education at NUS? If you received offers from other universities, why did you pick NUS?

Without a doubt! 4 years as an undergrad is never enough to experience NUS, why not add another 4 more! With that, you have a good foundation to go anywhere in the world.


On hindsight, would you have chosen the same research supervisor for your graduate programme?

Shazib Pervaiz. I would have chosen him again and again. To me, a PhD supervisor should go beyond getting you your degree and your manuscripts published, and really be interested in you as a human being, invest in your life, and do life with you. Shazib is all that and more.