Ishan Durugkar

Ishan Durugkar

Research Scientist at Sony AI. Interested in research and applications of Reinforcement Learning (RL), Multiagent RL, and Robotics

CLAUDE.md

CLAUDE.md

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

Project Overview

Personal academic website for Ishan Durugkar (Research Scientist at Sony AI), built with Jekyll using a customized fork of the academicpages template (based on Minimal Mistakes). Deployed to GitHub Pages at https://idurugkar.github.io.

Commands

Local Development

bundle install                        # Install Ruby dependencies
bundle exec jekyll liveserve          # Serve locally at localhost:4000 with live reload
bundle exec jekyll serve --config _config.yml,_config.dev.yml  # Serve with dev config

JavaScript Assets

npm install                           # Install Node.js dependencies
npm run build:js                      # Minify JavaScript files
npm run watch:js                      # Watch and rebuild JS on changes

Architecture

Content Collections

  • _pages/ — Main site pages (about, publications, CV, thesis, talks)
  • _publications/ — Individual publication markdown files with YAML frontmatter
  • _talks/ — Talk/presentation entries
  • _teaching/ — Teaching materials

Templates & Styling

  • _layouts/ — HTML layout templates (Liquid templating)
  • _includes/ — Reusable template partials
  • _sass/ — Modular SCSS stylesheets (18 files)

Configuration

  • _config.yml — Main Jekyll config: site metadata, author profile, social links, plugins, collection definitions, layout defaults
  • _config.dev.yml — Dev overrides: sets url: http://localhost:4000, disables analytics, expands SASS output
  • _data/navigation.yml — Controls which pages appear in the nav menu
  • _data/ui-text.yml — UI string overrides

Bulk Content Generation

markdown_generator/ contains Python/Jupyter scripts to generate markdown files from TSV data:

  • publications.tsv + publications.py → _publications/*.md
  • talks.tsv + talks.py → _talks/*.md

Run these scripts when adding multiple publications or talks at once instead of creating individual markdown files manually.

Pages are enabled/disabled in _data/navigation.yml. Talks, Teaching, Portfolio, and Blog are currently commented out.

Publication/Talk Frontmatter

Each _publications/*.md file uses YAML frontmatter with keys like title, date, venue, paperurl, citation. See existing files for the expected format.