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Zhens'

by Zhen Rong Yap and Zhen Wei Yap

Two brothers into science, technology, and entrepreneurship

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Episodes

  1. Finding Truth in Atoms and Bits

    Eito Miyamura (Twitter: @Eito_Miyamura) is the President of the Oxford University Blockchain Society and is exploring the intersection of AI and Blockchain. In this 1hr+ session, we discuss web3 and geopolitics, chips and AI, noise and truth. Tune in for a great session! Time stamps: 00:27...

  2. The Intersection: Art of Podcasting, Immunology and Technology

    Technology has not only advanced the field of science through new methods and inventions, but it has also made podcasting a more accessible and diverse platform for exploring a wide range of subjects. PhD candidate at University College London, Ursule Demael shares her love for biosciences. She...

  3. Impossible Materials for Impossible Missions

    How to do the impossible!? Dr. Scott Roberts is a materials technologist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Materials Development and Manufacturing Technology Group. He develops new materials, processing techniques, and technologies for the use in the aerospace field. He is as close to…

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  4. Design, Technology and Ukiyo-e

    ‘Reaching back through space and time to Ukiyo-e masters of the past.’ Bram Tan is an artist with an industrial design background. He enjoys thinking broadly about the world and how everything technological works. He also believes that artistic pursuit is an affirmation to oneself that the future...

  5. Reinforcement Learning for medicine and life

    Paul Festor is a PhD candidate in computer science at Imperial college, London working on applying reinforcement learning to sepsis. He is passionate about bringing AI and machine learning to the healthcare industry and helping to save lives. In this session, we discuss many topics from ancient...

  6. Materials, Energy, and Consciousness

    Sahasrajit Ramesh is a freelance consultant in business strategy and finance in the power sector, previously working at Aurora Energy Research. He topped his year in materials science at the University of Oxford and did his 4th year at MIT in computational materials. He writes a blog on personal...

  7. From Acting to Venture Capital

    Michelangelo Valtancoli is an early stage VC investor at Stride.VC and previously the podcast host of Almost Founders, where he provided high quality, straight to the point information on being a founder, raising, and building. He placed top 10 in Bayes Business School and was an avid actor in...

  8. Concept Engineer, Community Engineer, and Token Engineer

    Jack Chong is the President of OX1 Incubator, the only ideation-to-seed stage incubator in Oxford which awards £50,000+ equity-free grants, and is a PPEist at Christ Church, Oxford. In this 1hr+ session, we discuss the entrepreneurial space in Oxford, London and Stanford, philosophy of…

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  9. Malaria Vaccines, Public Health, and Fencing

    Why are malaria vaccines so hard to make? Lawrence Wang is an MD-DPhil candidate in vaccine research at Oxford, a medical school student at UC San Diego, and a NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholar at National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the Intramural Research Program (IRP). In this 1hr+ session,...

  10. Feather, Transformers, and AI

    In this 1hr+ session, Nihir Vedd, founder of feather-ai and a PhD candidate in Natural Language Processing at Imperial College London, and I discuss everything from transformers in machine learning to NLP in stand-up comedy to AI model marketplaces. Tune in for a great session! 0:46 RICH Brunch -...

  11. Cell Simulations, Theoretical Physics, and Lego Design

    In this 1hr+ session, James N Graham, a DPhil candidate at the Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, and I discuss phase field models in soft active matter, computational neuroscience, the importance of physical intuition and lego design. Tune in for a great session! James'...

  12. Quantum Simulations, Dropping Balls, and 3D Animation

    In this 1hr+ session, Sabrina Wang, a DPhil candidate at the Department of Materials, University of Oxford, and I discuss materials modelling, quantum computing, inspiration for physics and 3D animation (Blender Dilettante). Tune in for a great session!

  13. Small Satellites, Space Sustainability, and Billionaire Behaviour

    In this 1hr+ session, Dr. Andrew Shapiro, the Co-Founder and CTO of Proteus Space Inc. and formerly the manager of technology formulation at NASA JPL, and I discuss everything from nanomaterial production to the changing space industry to small satellite propulsion. Tune in for a great session!

  14. Rockets, Spikes, and AI

    In this 1hr+ session, David Heath, the President of the Oxford University Rocketry Society, and I discuss everything rockets from aerospikes to machine learning in fluid dynamics to rotating detonation engines in space. Tune in for our first episode!

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Two brothers into science, technology, and entrepreneurship

HOSTED BY

Zhen Rong Yap and Zhen Wei Yap

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Two brothers into science, technology, and entrepreneurship

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