Website Inspirations

Sites that informed the design of this personal website. The combined goal: a polished, content-first academic site with a Georgia + Forest Mint visual identity, suitable for the dual audience of faculty hiring committees and industry/investors.

Primary inspirations (used heavily)

• Shreya Shankar — sh-reya.com — Section structure (representative papers separate from the full list, mentee display, job-market materials prominent), clean hierarchy. The mentee section format (“Advisor / Current Mentees / Past Mentees” with parenthetical destinations) is taken from her site.
• Nicholas Carlini — nicholas.carlini.com — Typographic identity: serif font (Lora) plus a single accent color (burgundy). We adapted this with Georgia + Forest Mint. Animated link underlines and personal voice throughout.
• Audrey Cheng — audreyccheng.com — Fluid clamp() typography, two-column hero with portrait, news timeline with fixed date column, talks formatted as “Title” + nested venue+date list, awards section with year right-aligned.

Secondary inspirations

• Niklas Muennighoff — muennighoff.com — Horizontal scrollable research cards, semantic color-coded category tags. Considered but not used; would require more visual assets per project than we currently have.
• Sewon Min — sewonmin.com — Clean academic structure, collapsible info boxes for prospective students. Considered for future expansion.
• Omar Khattab — omarkhattab.com — Inline project logo treatment (DSPy, ColBERT). Idea reserved for future use if/when standalone projects warrant.

Recently added / under review

• Shayne Longpre — shaynelongpre.com

Faculty / industry sites surveyed during research

These were reviewed for comparison but did not directly influence final decisions:

• Neel Guha — neelguha.github.io
• Christopher Re — cs.stanford.edu/~chrismre
• John Yang — john-b-yang.github.io
• Azalia Mirhoseini — azaliamirhoseini.com
• Jiajun Wu — jiajunwu.com
• Tatsu Hashimoto — thashim.github.io
• Diyi Yang — cs.stanford.edu/~diyiy
• Sanmi Koyejo — cs.stanford.edu/~sanmi
• Sewon Min (Berkeley page) — www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/sewonmin.html
• Sarah Chasins — schasins.com
• Rose Yu — roseyu.com