Singapore AI Researcher's Comeback: From Nearly Failing School to PhD

A self-described top Singaporean AI researcher shared his academic comeback: nearly held back in secondary school, predicted to end up in vocational school, he scraped through O-levels and pre-A-level failures yet eventually made it to a PhD, disproving the notion that poor grades rule out academia.

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