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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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In this new episode, I explore a question that many academics eventually face: What does it really take to supervise PhD students well? If you have ever wondered: What type of supervisor you are—or want to become How to select PhD students carefully and avoid unpleasant surprises later then you may find this episode useful.
In this episode, Professor Markos Papageorgiou reflects on his distinguished career and candidly shares his experiences, advice, and wisdom with PhD students and early-career academics. To learn more about Professor Papageorgiou’s remarkable career and achievements, please see the recent feature on him in IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine.  
This episode — this conversation — comes from a personal place. My experience as someone who once sat on the international student side of the table… and now sits on the supervisor side. 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!
Habit 6: Self-care is self-improvement; Habit 7: Build a thick skin for failure and embarrassment — and stop comparing, stop over-thinking. Plus some embarrassing stories. 
This episode covers three habits: Habit 3: Discipline executes. Consistency transforms. Habit 4: Stay positive, stay confident, and don’t quit. Habit 5: Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.
7 habits for achieving excellence in academia. Part I: the first two habits.  
The motivation behind this podcast.
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