My Biodata

My name is Liu Zhengning. I was born in Nan Chang, Jiang Xi Province, China. I lived in my hometown for the childhood and received preliminary education there. At the age of seventeen, I received a scholarship and moved to Singapore for tertiary education. After one and half year's bridging course, I entered National University of Singapore and chose mathematics as my major. In the university, I have received mathematics training from the mathematics department. In addition, I also studied economics, which had widened my knowledge scope and probably would be my future research area. My other interests include travelling, photo shooting, basketball and table tennis playing, etc. I was described as a cheerful, frank and responsible person by my friends.

Learning experience from the research project

I have really learned a lot from the ongoing research project. Being the leader of the team, I have learned how to schedule the whole project and to ensure my members to be actively involved. Besides, I learned how to hear from the team members and make the final decision. This is useful because in my future workplace, it is very likely to be a decision maker. In addition, I am also able to see some problems that our team encountered, for example, our weak English writing skills.

Maybe because three of us are not native English speakers, sometime we felt difficult in phrasing our ideas. For example, we employed plenty of time in writing the hypothesis and problem statement of our research because both of them required a short, clear and formal expression. Indeed we had no advantages in this sort of exercise. We had to take time to choose proper words out of our limited vocabularies and make them well-organized. During the report composing, the same problems occurred. I have tried to make my explanations clear and well-understood. Moreover, after I finished writing, I always relook at my work and tried very hard to get the expressions improved. But the contents still confused the readers during the peer review. This meant my efforts did not contribute significantly to the improvement of the expressions.

In my opinion, the research project is a good practice for me. I have had a positive learning experience through doing this project. I have been able to get to know my advantages and disadvantages in doing researches as well as learning how to be a leader.