New version debuts!

31 Oct 2026

Today I start to use a brand new version of my acadamic homepage! Excited.

The excellence of this version: 1) multiple pages, 2) nice layout design, 3) a personal logo, 4) my beloved color theme.

I wrote it myself by Jekyll. For that, I have particularly spent a little bit time (not that little,,,) to learn how to use Jekyll to build a website (and even learn a little bit Ruby,, my ZigZag life…).

I always remember those days in my postgraduate life, when my group members, like all of a sudden, raised a hot wave of building personal academic homepages. Almost everyone in my lab was enthusiastic in writing his/her HTML code (in .txt files at that time, btw), lasting for weeks. I quite enjoyed those days. It was soooo exciting to own a homepage.

But I only ended up with a simple version at that time. After that, I was still keeping dreaming of a fantastic acedamic homepage, through the past years. Anyway, I think we need to fulfill our dreams for ourselves. So ultimately, here is the new version.

One more comment: coding is fun. It is like some kind of cyber LEGO, you writing down the code blocks and seeing the webpage bricks floating up.

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Meanwhile, recently I also realized that a homepage is extremely important to me a researcher. It represents me, to the world. It offers me a place, to present my research to the world and also to myself. It feels good to see my fruits gradually accumulating here.

These days impacted by AI, the paper submission results become harsh (maybe ridiculous) and random. Sometimes I felt uncertain. I mean uncertain about what my research community will be and what we do in future. Nevertheless, one day I come to the following thoughts. If I cannot have new published papers, am I not a true researcher anymore? It is like unconsciously one is defined by one’s publications. I come to realize that before one owns the outside form of a researcher, the one should own the inner soul of a researcher first. Whether I can obtain the officially recognized identity as a researcher, I can first 100% hold my spirit of a researcher on my own.

Standing at the age of beginning eager toward the Carl Jung’s so-called individuation, I wonder what would be the fit form of my being in my research life, compatible with my own nature.

An academic homepage is wonderful, that whether or not one succeeds in getting papers published, the one can still present the research experiences on the homepage. Anyway, the research life can never stop.

This homepage, is my garden to share my research life.

Moreover, I also wonder if any new forms for research community, independent of the traditional journal publications or conferences, could emerge in the coming era. Could there be a social platform for global researchers to share and communicate (and gossip), just like an academic version of Instagram?