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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 your support: share it with your network, leave a comment, and drop a rating. It might even help me convince my wife and kids. Thank you!

生活不止眼前的苟且，还有诗和远方的田野.

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The motivation behind this podcast.

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The motivation behind this podcast.