diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
index a04904fe5365..990a650e42e1 100644
--- a/_config.yml
+++ b/_config.yml
@@ -131,8 +131,8 @@ bing_site_verification: # out your bing-site-verification ID (Bing Webmaster)
 # Blog
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-blog_name: al-folio # blog_name will be displayed in your blog page
-blog_description: a simple whitespace theme for academics
+blog_name: Avishek Anand # blog_name will be displayed in your blog page
+blog_description: ramblings of a researcher trying to make an impact
 permalink: /blog/:year/:title/
 lsi: false # produce an index for related posts
 
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ pagination:
 
 related_blog_posts:
   enabled: true
-  max_related: 5
+  max_related: 3
 
 # Giscus comments (RECOMMENDED)
 # Follow instructions on https://giscus.app/ to setup for your repo to fill out the information below.
diff --git a/_news/announcement_1.md b/_news/announcement_1.md
index bc99c1340338..bbc5c21a5620 100644
--- a/_news/announcement_1.md
+++ b/_news/announcement_1.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 layout: post
-date: 2015-10-22 15:59:00-0400
+date: 2024-03-24 15:59:00-0400
 inline: true
 related_posts: false
 ---
 
-Talk at Bloomberg on "Explainable Information Retrieval"
+Talk at Bloomberg on "Explainable Information Retrieval" in the CTO Data Science Talk Series. 
diff --git a/_news/announcement_3.md b/_news/announcement_3.md
index f6ac8e9eedaa..3298b674a483 100644
--- a/_news/announcement_3.md
+++ b/_news/announcement_3.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 layout: post
-date: 2023-05-29 07:59:00-0400
+date: 2024-07-20 07:59:00-0400
 inline: true
 related_posts: false
 ---
diff --git a/_pages/about.md b/_pages/about.md
index 494913a360ee..885cf588e8af 100644
--- a/_pages/about.md
+++ b/_pages/about.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 layout: about
 title: about
 permalink: /
-subtitle: <a href='#'>Affiliations</a>. Address. Contacts. Moto. Etc.
+subtitle: <a href='#'>Associated Prof. at the TU Delft</a> 
 
 profile:
   align: right
@@ -16,10 +16,9 @@ profile:
 news: true # includes a list of news items
 selected_papers: true # includes a list of papers marked as "selected={true}"
 social: true # includes social icons at the bottom of the page
+blog: false
+cv: false
 ---
 
 Avishek Anand is an Associate Professor in the [Web Information Systems (WIS)](https://www.wis.ewi.tudelft.nl/) at the [Software Technology](https://www.tudelft.nl/ewi/over-de-faculteit/afdelingen/software-technology) department at [Delft University of Technology](https://www.tudelft.nl/en/) (TU Delft). His research aims to develop *intelligent* and *transparent* machine learning approaches to help humans find relevant information. Specifically, he is interested in **Explainable Information Retrieval**. He holds a PhD in computer science from the [Max Planck Insitute for Informatics](https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/), Saarbrücken. Previously, he was an Assistant professor in Information Retrieval in [Lebniz University Hannover](https://www.uni-hannover.de/). His research is supported by Amazon research awards, Schufa Gmbh, BMBF, and EU Horizon 2020. He is also a member of the [L3S Research Center](https://www.l3s.de/) and was a visiting scholar in *Amazon Search*. 
 
-Put your address / P.O. box / other info right below your picture. You can also disable any of these elements by editing `profile` property of the YAML header of your `_pages/about.md`. Edit `_bibliography/papers.bib` and Jekyll will render your [publications page](/al-folio/publications/) automatically.
-
-Link to your social media connections, too. This theme is set up to use [Font Awesome icons](https://fontawesome.com/) and [Academicons](https://jpswalsh.github.io/academicons/), like the ones below. Add your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Scholar, or just disable all of them.