Christopher Morse

Christopher Morse

M.S. Computer Science | Job Interests: ML, Robot Perception, Software Development | Rock Climber

Meriel’s Personal Website

Meriel’s Personal Website

My website: https://missmeriel.github.io

This repository contains the site used by Meriel von Stein. This site was built using Jekyll. The original site’s theme is based on bulma-clean-theme, a theme created by C.S. Rhymes.

Working on the Website Locally.

To work on the website locally you have two options. You can either use docker or you can install the dependencies manually

Docker

First you need to install docker. Once you are done, go into the website repo and run the following command:

docker run --rm -it \
  --volume="$PWD:/srv/jekyll" \
  --volume="$PWD/vendor/bundle:/usr/local/bundle" \
  -p 4000:4000 jekyll/jekyll:3.8 \
  jekyll serve

Installing Locally

To view this website, you will need Ruby and Bundle. Ruby is an open-source programming language, while Bundle is a tool that takes care of all the dependencies required to run Ruby projects. Below we provide the instructions needed to install these on both Mac OS and Ubuntu.

Mac OS

To install Ruby and Bundle on Mac OS, you need to run the following:

$ brew update
$ brew install ruby
$ sudo gem install bundler

Note: there have been some issues with the dependencies on Mac, although some people have got it working.

Next, to install all the dependencies for the website, go into the Website folder and run:

$ bundle install

You can view the website by running the following in the website folder:

$ bundle exec jekyll serve

Note: For this to work on Mac OS you will need to install xcode. You can install xcode from the app store (it takes a while).

Ubuntu

To install Ruby and Bundle on Ubuntu you need to run the following:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install ruby-full
$ sudo gem install bundler

Note: These instructions were tested on Ubuntu 18.04

Next, to install all the dependencies for the website, go into the Website folder and run:

$ bundle install

You can view the website by running the following in the website folder:

$ bundle exec jekyll serve

Viewing the Website

You can then view the website on:

http://127.0.0.1:4000/

Adding Information

Adding information is as easy as opening the appropriate folder (listed below) and adding a markdown file with the correct information.

More information on what format the markdown file should be is listed under the appropriate headings below.

Team Members

To add a team member, add your markdown file to the _team folder. The fields which need to be filled in are:

  • first_name: (required) Your first name.
  • last_name: (required) Your last name.
  • picture: (optional) A picture of you, preferably in the folder /images/team/. Note: the image needs to be square.
  • website: (optional) A link to your personal website.
  • dblp_uri: (optional) A link to your dblp bib file. By adding this, we will automatically add your publications to the publications tab.
  • tier: (required) This needs to be one of the following (Professors, Postdoctoral Students, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students, Previous Students).

An example of a complete team member markdown file is shown below:

---
first_name: Mary Lou
last_name: Soffa
picture: /images/team/marylou.jpg
website: www.cs.virginia.edu/~soffa/index.html%3Fp=6.html
dblp_uri: https://dblp.org/pid/s/MaryLouSoffa.bib
tier: Professors
---

Projects

To add a project to the website, add a markdown file to the _project folder. The fields which need to be filled in are:

  • title: (required) The title of your project.
  • image: (optional) An image that will be displayed as a banner for your project, preferably in the folder /images/projects/. Note it is best to use an image that longer vertically than horizontally for best formatting.
  • date: (required) the date which the project was started in the format YYYY-MM-DD, used for sorting the projects.
  • team: (optional) A list of team members separated by commas.
  • label: (required) This defines which section your project will end up in. It needs to be one of the following (DNN, Robotics, Foundational)
  • sponsors: (optional) A sentence describing the sponsors of this project.

You can then add your project details below the data fields using the standard markdown format. For a guide on basic markdown formatting, take a look at this link.

An example of a complete project would look as follows:

---
title: Fuzzing Mobile Robot Environments for Fast Automated Crash Detection
image: /images/projects/Fuzzing.png
date: 2021-06-02
team: Trey Woodlief, Sebastian Elbaum, and Kevin Sullivan
label: Robotics
sponsor: 'This effort is supported by NSF Awards #1853374 and #1909414'
---

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

### Subtitle

We tried to:
* create
* a
* list

This is how you make something **bold** wow!

To add a gallery image to the website, add a markdown file to the _gallery folder. The fields which need to be filled in are:

  • image: (required) A link to the image you want to display, preferably in the folder /images/gallery/.
  • description: (optional) A short description of the image.
  • image_ratio: (optional) What ratio the image is, used to format the final image. Defaults to is-3by1. A complete list of ratios is available here.
  • date: (required) The date your image was taken in the format YYYY-MM-DD, used for sorting.

An example of a complete gallery markdown file is shown below:

---
image: /images/gallery/carltalk.jpg
description: Carl giving a talk on his recently published work on creating stressful trajectories for robots.
ratio: is-4by3
date: 2020-03-22
---

Publications

We have developed a way to automatically pull your publications using the dblp_uri tag from your team profile. However, you can also add a publication manually. To add a publication to the website, add a markdown file to the _publications folder. The fields which need to be filled in are:

  • title: (required) The title of your publication
  • date: (required) The date your publication was published in the format YYYY-MM-DD.
  • venue: (optional) The venue your publication was published in. You are able to add both HTML and markdown to this field.
  • paperurl: (optional) A link to your paper.
  • authors (optional) A list of authors separated by commas.

An example of a complete publication markdown file is shown below:

``
---
title: "At The End Of Synthesis: Narrowing Program Candidates"
date: 2017-01-01
venue: "39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Technologies Results Track, ICSE-NIER 2017, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 20-28, 2017"
paperurl: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-NIER.2017.7
authors: "David Shriver, Sebastian G Elbaum and Kathryn T Stolee"
---

Automatically Updating Publications

To update the publications, all you need to do is run the UpdatePublications.py script. To do that you can run the following command in your terminal:

$ python3 UpdatePublications.py