Xinyu Chen Academic Website

This repository contains the personal and CLab website at soldierchen.github.io. The site uses Jekyll and is based on the al-folio theme.

Most routine updates only require editing YAML, Markdown, or BibTeX. The Liquid templates under _includes/ and _layouts/ control presentation and normally do not need to be changed.

Content Map

Content	File or directory
Profile, biography, research areas, openings, awards	_data/home.yml
People and group photos	_data/people.yml
Teaching	_data/teaching.yml
Academic service	_data/service.yml
News	_news/*.md
Publications	_bibliography/papers.bib
Publication PDFs	assets/pdf/
Profile, people, and group images	assets/img/
Site-wide settings and social account IDs	_config.yml

Local Preview

Install dependencies once:

bundle install

Start the local site:

bundle exec jekyll serve --disable-disk-cache

Open http://127.0.0.1:4000/. Do not use sudo; it can create root-owned cache files and make later builds fail.

Before publishing, run:

bundle exec jekyll build --disable-disk-cache

Add A Person

Edit _data/people.yml and add an item under the appropriate members list. List order is display order.

- name: Example Student
  initials: ES
  start: 2026/09
  website: https://example.com/          # optional
  education:
    - degree: BS
      institution: Example University
    - degree: MS
      institution: Another University

For a co-supervised student, add:

co_supervisor:
  name: Prof. Example
  url: https://example.com/

The end date defaults to Present. To show a former member, add an explicit value:

end: 2028/06

Add A Group Photo

Place the image in assets/img/, then add it to photos.items in _data/people.yml. Keep the newest photo first.

- image: 2026-group-photo.jpg
  alt: CLab group photo in September 2026
  caption: New term begins, September 2026

Add crop: top when the photo needs a higher crop position.

Add A Course

Add a course under the appropriate school's courses list in _data/teaching.yml:

- institution: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
  # Optional:
  # role: Instructor
  courses:
    - code: MICS 5760
      title: FPGA-based Custom Computing
      terms:
        - label: Fall 2026
          url: https://example.com/course
        - label: Fall 2025

Add url only when that term has a course page. Terms without url remain plain text.

Add Academic Service

Add one item to _data/service.yml:

- role: Technical Program Committee
  detail: MICRO (2027)

Update The Homepage

Edit _data/home.yml.

• profile controls the left profile card.
• biography contains Markdown paragraphs.
• research.areas controls the research-area cards.
• openings controls recruitment text.
• awards.items controls the awards list.

To add a research area:

- icon: fa-microchip
  title: Architecture
  points:
    - First research point
    - Another research point

Add News

Create a new Markdown file under _news/, for example _news/announcement_15.md:

---
layout: post
date: 2026-08-01 07:59:00+0800
inline: true
related_posts: false
category: paper
---

Our paper "[Paper Title](/publications/)" has been accepted to **MICRO 2026**.
Congratulations to First Author!

Use category: paper for publication news. Other useful values are people, award, and career; they use the general News label on the homepage.

The homepage and News page sort entries by date, so the filename does not control display order.

Add A Publication

Add a BibTeX entry near the top of _bibliography/papers.bib:

@inproceedings{Example2026,
  title={Paper Title},
  author={Student†, First and Chen, Xinyu},
  booktitle={IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO)},
  year={2026},
  pdf={example.pdf},
  code={https://github.com/example/repository}
}

The conference abbreviation shown on the page is read from the parentheses in booktitle or journal. Mark advised students with † in the family-name field. When the first author has † and Xinyu Chen is the last author, the page automatically adds the corresponding-author #. Put local PDF files in assets/pdf/; omit pdf or code when unavailable.

Publish

After the local build succeeds, commit and push the changes to GitHub. GitHub Pages will rebuild the site using the repository workflow.