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Hi there—welcome to Small Talk with Myself, a podcast for PhD students and early-career academics.I’m your host, Zuduo Zheng. I’m an award-winning researcher and educator, and also a university professor, which basically means - I get paid to ask questions and - occasionally pretend I know the answers.I try to support you by sharing my experiences—or, sometimes, by openly exposing my ignorance. By the end of each episode, I hope you’ll feel a bit smarter, a bit happier—or, at the very least, entertained by my accent.For more information about my research, please visit: http://www.connectedandautonomoustransport.com/I’d love to hear from you — questions, feedback, ideas. If you have thoughts to share, I’m all ears. You can reach me anytime by email: zhengzuduo@gmail.com.I make this podcast in my free time, and everything is shared for free—in the true spirit of open science and reproducible research. If you suspect this isn’t a complete waste of my evenings and weekends, I’d love y
zhengzuduo hosts Small Talk with Myself, a education show with 10 episodes published.
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