CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Project Overview

Academic personal homepage for Rui Zhou, built with Jekyll 3.9.0 and deployed via GitHub Pages. Based on the AcadHomepage template.

Development Commands

# Install dependencies
bundle install

# Run local development server with live reload (http://127.0.0.1:4000)
bash run_server.sh
# or directly:
bundle exec jekyll liveserve

Architecture

• _config.yml — Main site configuration: metadata, author profile, social links, plugins, Google Scholar CDN settings
• _pages/about.md — All homepage content (biography, news, education, publications, internships) in a single Markdown file with embedded HTML
• _layouts/default.html — Base HTML layout that assembles includes (head, masthead, sidebar, scripts)
• _includes/ — HTML partials: sidebar, author profile, SEO tags, analytics, MathJax config, Google Scholar stats fetcher
• _data/navigation.yml — Navigation menu sections
• _sass/ — SCSS stylesheets; assets/css/main.scss is the entry point that imports everything
• google_scholar_crawler/ — Python script (main.py) using scholarly to fetch citation stats; automated daily via GitHub Actions (.github/workflows/google_scholar_crawler.yaml), outputs to google-scholar-stats branch

Key Patterns

• Publications are defined directly in _pages/about.md using <div class='paper-box'> HTML blocks with inline citation count spans (<span class='show_paper_citations' data='PAPER_ID'>)
• Google Scholar stats are fetched client-side from jsdelivr CDN pointing to the google-scholar-stats branch
• Navigation sections correspond to anchor IDs in about.md (e.g., #-news, #-educations, #-publications)
• MathJax v2.7.4 is enabled for mathematical notation