update

_config.yml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Site settings
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-title: Shaolei Ren # the website title (if blank, full name will be used instead)
+title: blank # the website title (if blank, full name will be used instead)
 first_name: Shaolei
 middle_name: 
 last_name: Ren
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ enable_math:                true   # enables math typesetting (uses MathJax)
 enable_tooltips:            false  # enables automatic tooltip links generated
                                    # for each section titles on pages and posts
 enable_darkmode:            true   # enables switching between light/dark modes
-enable_navbar_social:       false  # enables displaying social links in the
+enable_navbar_social:       true  # enables displaying social links in the
                                    # navbar on the about page
 enable_project_categories:  true   # enables categorization of projects into
                                    # multiple categories

_layouts/about.html

@@ -41,6 +41,49 @@ <h1 class="post-title">
             {{ content }}
           </div>
 
+
+          <!-- Selected media -->
+          <h2><a href="{{ '/media/' | relative_url }}" style="color: inherit;">selected media</a></h2>
+
+          My research on AI sustainability has been reported and covered by 500+ media outlets in 60+ countries, including
+          major news media such as 
+          <b><a href="https://apnews.com/article/chatgpt-gpt4-iowa-ai-water-consumption-microsoft-f551fde98083d17a7e8d904f8be822c4">Associated Press</a></b> (also republished
+          in <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/09/chatgpt-gpt4-iowa-ai-water-consumption-microsoft/e68d41d0-4f12-11ee-bfca-04e0ac43f9e4_story.html">The Washington Post</a>, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/artificial-intelligence-technology-chatgpt-built-iowa-lot-water-103052515">ABC News</a>, <a href="https://fortune.com/2023/09/09/ai-chatgpt-usage-fuels-spike-in-microsoft-water-consumption/">Fortune</a>, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/11/artificial-intelligence-technology-behind-chatgpt-was-built-in-iowa-with-a-lot-of-water.html">CNBC</a>, 
+          <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-technology/ap-artificial-intelligence-technology-behind-chatgpt-was-built-in-iowa-with-a-lot-of-water/">The Hill</a>,
+          etc.), 
+          <b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/artificial-intelligence-can-make-companies-greener-but-it-also-guzzles-energy-7c7b678?mod=ai_more_article_pos4">Wall Street Journal</a></b>, 
+          <b><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/artificial-intelligence-carbon-footprint-climate-change/">CBS News</a></b>, 
+          <b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-26/extreme-heat-drought-drive-opposition-to-ai-data-centers">Bloomberg</a></b>, 
+           <b><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2227096643554">CBC</a></b>, 
+            <b><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/6c050c72-cd3d-4159-a209-84a427edaf4a">Financial Times</a></b>, 
+          <b><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/08/artificial-intelligence-industry-boom-environment-toll">The Guardian</a></b>, 
+          <b><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt-data-centre-water-consumption-b2318972.html">The Independent</a></b>, 
+          <b><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2381859-shifting-where-data-is-processed-for-ai-can-reduce-environmental-harm/">New Scientist</a></b>, among 
+          others.
+
+
+           <div class="container">
+            <div class="row">
+                  <div class="col">
+                  <a href="https://apnews.com/article/chatgpt-gpt4-iowa-ai-water-consumption-microsoft-f551fde98083d17a7e8d904f8be822c4"> {% include figure.html path="assets/logo/ap.png" title="example image" class="img-fluid rounded" %}</a>
+                </div>
+                <div class="col">
+                  <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/artificial-intelligence-can-make-companies-greener-but-it-also-guzzles-energy-7c7b678?mod=ai_more_article_pos4">{% include figure.html path="assets/logo/wsj.png" title="example image" class="img-fluid rounded" %}</a>
+                </div>
+              <div class="col">
+                <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-26/extreme-heat-drought-drive-opposition-to-ai-data-centers">{% include figure.html path="assets/logo/bloomberg.png" title="example image" class="img-fluid rounded" %}</a>
+              </div>
+              <div class="col">
+                  <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2227096643554">{% include figure.html path="assets/logo/cbc.png" title="example image" class="img-fluid rounded" %}</a>
+              </div>
+              <div class="col">
+                  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/08/artificial-intelligence-industry-boom-environment-toll">{% include figure.html path="assets/logo/guardian.png" title="example image" class="img-fluid rounded" %}</a>
+              </div>
+            </div>
+          </div>
+
+
+
           <!-- News -->
           {% if page.news and site.announcements.enabled -%}
             <h2><a href="{{ '/news/' | relative_url }}" style="color: inherit;">news</a></h2>
@@ -55,7 +98,7 @@ <h2><a href="{{ '/blog/' | relative_url }}" style="color: inherit;">latest posts
 
           <!-- Selected papers -->
           {% if page.selected_papers -%}
-            <h2><a href="{{ '/publications/' | relative_url }}" style="color: inherit;">selected publications</a></h2>
+            <h2><a href="{{ '/publications/' | relative_url }}" style="color: inherit;">recent papers</a></h2>
             {%- include selected_papers.html %}
           {%- endif %}
 

_pages/about.md

@@ -2,28 +2,25 @@
 layout: about
 title: about
 permalink: /
-subtitle: <a href='#'>AI+Sustainability:</a> Building an environmentally
-sustainable and equitable future
+subtitle: <a href='/research/'>AI + Sustainability:</a> Building an environmentally sustainable and equitable future
+
 
 profile:
   align: right
   image: img_ren.jpg
   image_circular: false # crops the image to make it circular
   address: >
-  
+    <p>E-mail: <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></p>
 
-news: true  # includes a list of news items
+news: false  # includes a list of news items
 latest_posts: false  # includes a list of the newest posts
 selected_papers: true # includes a list of papers marked as "selected={true}"
 social: false  # includes social icons at the bottom of the page
 ---
+I am an Associate Professor of [Electrical and Computer Engineering](https://www.ece.ucr.edu/) at the University of California, Riverside, where I am also a cooperating faculty member in the [Computer Science and Engineering](https://www1.cs.ucr.edu/) department. My research broadly focuses on **<a href='/research/'>AI + Sustainability</a>**, with the goal of `building an environmentally sustainable and equitable future`. More concretely, I am interested in: (1) developing foundational algorithms and methodologies to make AI and computing systems more sustainable; and (2) leveraging AI and computational techniques to make our society more sustainable and equitable. I received the 2015 NSF CAREER award and Best Paper awards from multiple conferences (including the ACM e-Energy'16, flagship conference of the [ACM SIG on Energy Systems and Informatics](https://energy.acm.org/)) for my research on computatutational sustainability.
 
-Write your biography here. Tell the world about yourself. Link to your favorite [subreddit](http://reddit.com). You can put a picture in, too. The code is already in, just name your picture `prof_pic.jpg` and put it in the `img/` folder.
-
-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](http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/) and [Academicons](https://jpswalsh.github.io/academicons/), like the ones below. Add your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Scholar, or just disable all of them.
 
-**Prospective Students:** I have multiple openings available for graduate students with full financial support. 
+**Prospective Students:** I have multiple openings available for graduate students with full financial support (in either [ECE](https://www1.cs.ucr.edu/) or
+[CSE](https://www1.cs.ucr.edu/) department). 
 Students with interests in AI + sustainability, optimization, machine learning, or other relevant areas
-are welcome to contact me.
+are welcome to contact me.

_sass/_base.scss

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 p,
 h1,
-h2,
+ // h2,
 h3,
 h4,
 h5,
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ strong {
   color: var(--global-text-color);
 }
 
+h2 {
+  color: #{$purple-color};
+}
+
 hr {
   border-top: 1px solid var(--global-divider-color);
 }