Jong Bhak's Ph.D. advisor and supervisors

From JongBhak.com

Jong Bhak had three supervisors. 

My initial official supervisor was Prof. Alan Fersht who is knighted for his protein engineering work. As he was the director of Centre for Protein Engineering(CPE) of MRC Cambridge, he was my formal supervisor. As he was a fellow in Gonville and Caius college of Cambridge, I joined Caius college. Dr. Tim Hubbard was in CPE and he was my academic supervisor. He is famous for his gene count in the human genome project. He is a bioinformatist and he is very able and repectful. I liked him a lot. He is liberal and open-minded. He influenced me heavily to start various BioXXX projects such as Bioperl, Biojava, Biolinux, and so on. I always had some openfree (http://biolicense.org) attitude biological data and knowledge. He also had similar open attitude toward information. As he used Perl programming language. I learnt Perl and I think because of him and many researchers in Cambridge used Perl instead of Java and Python etc, so many bioinformatists use Perl. Later, I started working with Cyrus Chothia who is a mile stone in my science career. He is a good scientist who knows how to do research. He has clear priniples in his mind on whatever projects he does. He is perhaps the most serious and deep scientist I have ever met. Also, he is the kind of person how thinks/desigs in thoughts and executes beautifully. He taught me how to do science cleanly. He taught me the importance of seriousness and carefulness in performing science. Also, as he did not do any programming, I had to
make computer programs to produce graphs, tables, and figures that made me learn much about programming. 

Written for Philip Cho Soung Soo aripcss@nus.edu.sg