Website Changelog

2026-09-17

• Added the CoRL 2026 visual abstract video to the Research page below the AirPulse demo.
• Added a cached Google Scholar citation data file and scheduled updater workflow for the People page citation badge.

2026-08-17

• Replaced preprint detail-page placeholder images with original figures extracted from the arXiv source bundles.
• Added a Preprints section to Publications with detail pages for arXiv:2606.15317, arXiv:2605.19430, and arXiv:2602.06811.

2026-08-08

• Fixed inherited paragraph bottom margins in People page team cards so role and skills appear as a compact stack.
• Updated the People page Scholar badge with the verified Google Scholar citation count, tightened team role/skills spacing, and added IMG_4558 to the Gallery carousel.
• Removed the PI CV quick link, added icons and a Scholar citation badge to PI profile links, and restacked team member cards as name, role, then skills.
• Moved the People page dinner gathering carousel into a dedicated Gallery section above Join NEAR Lab.
• Added an auto-advancing dinner gathering photo gallery below the People page introduction, with clickable slide dots and browser-ready JPEG copies of the HEIC originals.
• Removed the visual separator between team names and roles while preserving wider inline spacing.
• Updated PI biography formatting for cum laude and linked Prof. Alessandro Rizzo; widened team name/role separator spacing.
• Placed team roles inline beside names, widened the Join NEAR Lab text block, and added an AirPulse placeholder video demo to Featured Research.
• Enlarged homepage section numbers to match section title scale and widened the What We Value label column.
• Renamed Research navigation/page language to Featured Research, cleared the current Featured Research page body, and updated homepage research links.
• Standardized sidebar-page content width across page and archive layouts while keeping the left lab profile panel.
• Updated People page team cards with rounded-square portraits and a name/position top row with responsibility below.
• Removed bullet markers from the homepage News announcement list.
• Added a timestamp query to the main stylesheet URL so browsers fetch the latest homepage CSS after deployment.
• Strengthened homepage CSS for the requested hero image, larger section numbers, timeline layout, vertical values list, and matched section-05 paragraph style.
• Updated the homepage hero to use images/Image_20260424_215652.png.
• Reworked the homepage News block into a titled bullet-list format with single-line announcements.
• Added quote styling to the homepage guiding question, enlarged section numbers, changed What We Value to a vertical list, redesigned How We Get There as a timeline, and normalized typography in the final vision section.
• Refined the homepage layout so the main content spans the available browser width while retaining the default left NEAR Lab profile panel.
• Adjusted homepage spacing, hero sizing, section-number scale, and card grids for a cleaner desktop/mobile layout.
• Rebuilt the homepage as a compact NEAR Lab manifesto with a strong hero, five numbered sections, research pillars, Build-Understand-Learn-Adapt pipeline, principles, and final vision statement.
• Added responsive and dark-mode styling for the redesigned homepage.
• Removed the auto-generated recommended citation/download footer from the Koopman paper detail page.
• Tightened the People page introduction around the lab’s multidisciplinary, multicultural team culture and shared belief in team-based success.
• Rewrote the Join NEAR Lab section to clarify expectations for curiosity, real-system iteration, academic record, matched skills, and application materials.
• Changed the homepage Updates month for the Koopman paper announcement from January to June.
• Simplified Publications into compact numbered one-line entries with title, authors, venue, year, and Details link only.
• Expanded the Koopman paper detail page with a paper-summary landing-page layout, contributions, findings, links, and figures.
• Reworked the People page Team section into one-row member entries and moved Rim El Filali, Chaolai Da, Chun Zhang, and Hengyang Li to Alumni & Visitors.
• Removed the extra “Code” quick access from Resources.
• Restored the light/dark mode toggle in the masthead and re-enabled the source JavaScript click handler.
• Updated the Koopman identification publication to link to IEEE Xplore.
• Reworked homepage Updates into a news announcement format with a latest-news NEW! marker and month.
• Removed the homepage “View publications” quick link.
• Replaced placeholder publication entries with a Google Scholar-style publication list while keeping Journal Articles and Conference Papers sections.
• Replaced placeholder publication data in the optional JSON CV source with the Koopman paper.
• Reworked the Resources page into the same Scholar-style list format.
• Refined the People page Team markup for cleaner, more consistent card styling.
• Added dark-mode styling for custom NEAR Lab cards, lists, and news components.
• Added the 2026 IEEE Control Systems Letters publication, “Koopman Identification of Nonlinear Systems via Reservoir Liftings,” as a Jekyll publication entry.
• Updated the Publications page to sort publication entries by date in reverse chronological order.
• Fixed the Publications navigation link to point to /publications/.
• Added a Resources page at /resources/ and listed the Espikify open-source tool.
• Standardized contact email references to guweibin@air.tsinghua.edu.
• Added an Updates section to the homepage and listed the new publication there.
• Refined homepage and Research page copy for more compact, precise academic wording.
• Refreshed custom NEAR Lab styling for research panels, people cards, homepage buttons, updates, and resource cards.
• Fixed a duplicate permalink in an inherited sample publication entry.