whimsial.github.io

Personal academic website of Andrii Iakovliev — built with Jekyll and deployed to GitHub Pages.

Live at https://whimsial.github.io.

How it works

• Profile (name, role, affiliation, contact links) lives in the author: block of _config.yml.
• Publications are pulled automatically from ORCID and a hand-maintained BibTeX file — see below.
• Research projects are listed in _data/projects.yml.
• Home-page news items are in _data/news.yml.
• Pages are markdown files in _pages/.

Adding a page

Create one markdown file in _pages/. For example, _pages/teaching.md:

---
title: Teaching
nav: true        # show it in the top navigation
nav_order: 5     # position in the nav (Home is first)
lead: "An optional one-line summary shown under the title."
---

Your page content in **markdown**.

The file is published at /teaching/ and, because nav: true, appears in the navigation automatically. Omit nav to publish a page without a nav link.

Publications

The publication list is generated by scripts/fetch_publications.py, which:

1. pulls the authoritative list of works from ORCID (0000-0003-4031-0073);
2. merges in any extra entries from _bibliography/extra.bib — use this for items ORCID misses, such as conference papers, posters or talks;
3. enriches every work that has a DOI with author lists and venue (Crossref) and abstracts and open-access PDF links (Semantic Scholar);
4. writes _data/publications.yml, which the site renders.

It runs weekly via the update-publications GitHub Action (and can be triggered manually from the Actions tab). To refresh locally:

pip install -r scripts/requirements.txt
python scripts/fetch_publications.py

Running locally

Requires Ruby and Bundler.

bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve

Then open http://localhost:4000.

Deployment

The site is built and deployed by the deploy GitHub Action on every push to master.

One-time setup: in the repository Settings → Pages, set Source to GitHub Actions.

License

Content © Andrii Iakovliev. Site code is available under the MIT License.