initial update

_config.yml

@@ -2,21 +2,20 @@
 # Site settings
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-title: blank # the website title (if blank, full name will be used instead)
-first_name: You
-middle_name: R.
-last_name: Name
-email: [email protected]
+title: Shaolei Ren # the website title (if blank, full name will be used instead)
+first_name: Shaolei
+middle_name: 
+last_name: Ren
+email: [email protected]
 description: > # the ">" symbol means to ignore newlines until "footer_text:"
-  A simple, whitespace theme for academics. Based on [*folio](https://github.com/bogoli/-folio) design.
+  
 footer_text: >
   Powered by <a href="https://jekyllrb.com/" target="_blank">Jekyll</a> with <a href="https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio">al-folio</a> theme.
   Hosted by <a href="https://pages.github.com/" target="_blank">GitHub Pages</a>.
-  Photos from <a href="https://unsplash.com" target="_blank">Unsplash</a>.
-keywords: jekyll, jekyll-theme, academic-website, portfolio-website  # add your own keywords or leave empty
+keywords: Shaolei Ren   # add your own keywords or leave empty
 
 lang: en # the language of your site (for example: en, fr, cn, ru, etc.)
-icon: ⚛️  # the emoji used as the favicon (alternatively, provide image name in /assets/img/)
+icon: 127758   # the emoji used as the favicon (alternatively, provide image name in /assets/img/)
 
 url: https://shaoleiren.github.io # the base hostname & protocol for your site
 baseurl:  # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog/
@@ -45,7 +44,7 @@ repo_trophies:
 # will use title and url fields
 # Take a look to https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-feed for more customization
 
-rss_icon: true
+rss_icon: false
 
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Layout
@@ -108,7 +107,6 @@ zotero_username: # your zotero username
 wechat_qr: # filename of your wechat qr-code saved as an image (e.g., wechat-qr.png if saved to assets/img/wechat-qr.png)
 
 contact_note: >
-  You can even add a little note about which of these is the best way to reach you.
 
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Analytics and search engine verification
@@ -154,15 +152,12 @@ giscus:
   lang: en
 
 # Disqus comments (DEPRECATED)
-disqus_shortname: al-folio # put your disqus shortname
+disqus_shortname:  # put your disqus shortname
 # https://help.disqus.com/en/articles/1717111-what-s-a-shortname
 
 # External sources.
 # If you have blog posts published on medium.com or other external sources,
 # you can display them in your blog by adding a link to the RSS feed.
-external_sources:
-  - name: medium.com
-    rss_url: https://medium.com/@al-folio/feed
 
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Collections

_news/announcement_1.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 layout: post
-date: 2015-10-22 15:59:00-0400
+date: 2023-10-22 15:59:00-0400
 inline: true
 related_posts: false
 ---

_news/announcement_admission.md

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+---
+layout: post
+date: 2023-10-22 15:59:00-0400
+inline: true
+related_posts: false
+---
+
+A simple inline announcement.

_pages/about.md

@@ -2,25 +2,28 @@
 layout: about
 title: about
 permalink: /
-subtitle: <a href='#'>Affiliations</a>. Address. Contacts. Moto. Etc.
+subtitle: <a href='#'>AI+Sustainability:</a> Building an environmentally
+sustainable and equitable future
 
 profile:
   align: right
-  image: prof_pic.jpg
+  image: img_ren.jpg
   image_circular: false # crops the image to make it circular
   address: >
-    <p>555 your office number</p>
-    <p>123 your address street</p>
-    <p>Your City, State 12345</p>
+  
 
 news: true  # includes a list of news items
-latest_posts: true  # includes a list of the newest posts
+latest_posts: false  # includes a list of the newest posts
 selected_papers: true # includes a list of papers marked as "selected={true}"
-social: true  # includes social icons at the bottom of the page
+social: false  # includes social icons at the bottom of the page
 ---
 
 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. 
+Students with interests in AI + sustainability, optimization, machine learning, or other relevant areas
+are welcome to contact me.

_sass/_themes.scss

@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
   --global-code-bg-color: #{$code-bg-color-light};
   --global-text-color: #{$black-color};
   --global-text-color-light: #{$grey-color};
-  --global-theme-color: #{$purple-color};
-  --global-hover-color: #{$purple-color};
+  --global-theme-color: #{$blue-color};
+  --global-hover-color: #{$blue-color};
   --global-hover-text-color: #{$white-color};
   --global-footer-bg-color: #{$grey-color-dark};
   --global-footer-text-color: #{$grey-color-light};