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diff --git a/_bibliography/papers.bib b/_bibliography/papers.bib
@@ -1,19 +1,17 @@
 ---
 ---
 
-@inproceedings{benetatos2021assessing,
+@article{achlioptas2023stellar,
   bibtex_show={true},
-  title={Assessing vision quality in retinal prosthesis implantees through deep learning: Current progress and improvements by optimizing hardware design parameters and rehabilitation},
-  author={Benetatos, Alexandros and Melanitis, Nikos and Nikita, Konstantina S},
-  booktitle={2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine \& Biology Society (EMBC)},
-  pages={6130--6133},
-  year={2021},
-  organization={IEEE},
-  pdf={https://paperhost.org/proceedings/embs/EMBC21/files/0994.pdf},
-  html={https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9630963},
-  video={https://youtu.be/JYxJJDVUMN8},
-  abstract={Retinal prosthesis (RP) is used to partially restore vision in patients with degenerative retinal diseases. Assessing the quality of RP-acquired (i.e., prosthetic) vision is needed to evaluate RP impact and prospects. Spatial distortions caused by electrical stimulation of the retina in RP, and the low number of electrodes, have limited the prosthetic vision: patients mostly localize shapes and shadows rather than recognizing objects. We simulate prosthetic vision and evaluate vision on image classification tasks, varying critical hardware parameters: total number and size of electrodes. We also simulate rehabilitation by re-training our models on prosthetic vision images. We find that electrode size has little impact on vision while at least 400 electrodes are needed to sufficiently restore vision (more than 65% classification accuracy on a complex visual task after rehabilitation). Argus II, a currently available implant, produces a low-resolution vision leading to low accuracy (21.3% score after rehabilitation) in complex vision tasks. Rehabilitation produces significant improvements (accuracy improvement of up to 30% on complex tasks, depending on the number of electrodes) in the attained vision, boosting our expectations for RP interventions and motivating the establishment of rehabilitation procedures for RP implantees.},
-  abbr={EMBC},
+  title={Stellar: Systematic Evaluation of Human-Centric Personalized Text-to-Image Methods},
+  author={Achlioptas, Panos and Benetatos, Alexandros and Fostiropoulos, Iordanis and Skourtis, Dimitris},
+  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.06116},
+  year={2023},
+  arxiv={https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06116},
+  abstract={In this work, we systematically study the problem of personalized text-to-image generation, where the output image is expected to portray information about specific human subjects. E.g., generating images of oneself appearing at imaginative places, interacting with various items, or engaging in fictional activities. To this end, we focus on text-to-image systems that input a single image of an individual to ground the generation process along with text describing the desired visual context. Our first contribution is to fill the literature gap by curating high-quality, appropriate data for this task. Namely, we introduce a standardized dataset (Stellar) that contains personalized prompts coupled with images of individuals that is an order of magnitude larger than existing relevant datasets and where rich semantic ground-truth annotations are readily available. Having established Stellar to promote cross-systems fine-grained comparisons further, we introduce a rigorous ensemble of specialized metrics that highlight and disentangle fundamental properties such systems should obey. Besides being intuitive, our new metrics correlate significantly more strongly with human judgment than currently used metrics on this task. Last but not least, drawing inspiration from the recent works of ELITE and SDXL, we derive a simple yet efficient, personalized text-to-image baseline that does not require test-time fine-tuning for each subject and which sets quantitatively and in human trials a new SoTA. For more information, please visit our project's website: https://stellar-gen-ai.github.io.},
+  website={https://stellar-gen-ai.github.io},
+  preview={stellar_teaser.jpeg},
+  abbr={arXiv},
   selected={true}
 }
 
@@ -33,16 +31,18 @@ @N metric
   selected={true}
 }
 
-@article{achlioptas2023stellar,
+@inproceedings{benetatos2021assessing,
   bibtex_show={true},
-  title={Stellar: Systematic Evaluation of Human-Centric Personalized Text-to-Image Methods},
-  author={Achlioptas, Panos and Benetatos, Alexandros and Fostiropoulos, Iordanis and Skourtis, Dimitris},
-  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.06116},
-  year={2023},
-  arxiv={https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06116},
-  abstract={In this work, we systematically study the problem of personalized text-to-image generation, where the output image is expected to portray information about specific human subjects. E.g., generating images of oneself appearing at imaginative places, interacting with various items, or engaging in fictional activities. To this end, we focus on text-to-image systems that input a single image of an individual to ground the generation process along with text describing the desired visual context. Our first contribution is to fill the literature gap by curating high-quality, appropriate data for this task. Namely, we introduce a standardized dataset (Stellar) that contains personalized prompts coupled with images of individuals that is an order of magnitude larger than existing relevant datasets and where rich semantic ground-truth annotations are readily available. Having established Stellar to promote cross-systems fine-grained comparisons further, we introduce a rigorous ensemble of specialized metrics that highlight and disentangle fundamental properties such systems should obey. Besides being intuitive, our new metrics correlate significantly more strongly with human judgment than currently used metrics on this task. Last but not least, drawing inspiration from the recent works of ELITE and SDXL, we derive a simple yet efficient, personalized text-to-image baseline that does not require test-time fine-tuning for each subject and which sets quantitatively and in human trials a new SoTA. For more information, please visit our project's website: https://stellar-gen-ai.github.io.},
-  website={https://stellar-gen-ai.github.io},
-  preview={stellar_teaser.jpeg},
-  abbr={arXiv},
+  title={Assessing vision quality in retinal prosthesis implantees through deep learning: Current progress and improvements by optimizing hardware design parameters and rehabilitation},
+  author={Benetatos, Alexandros and Melanitis, Nikos and Nikita, Konstantina S},
+  booktitle={2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine \& Biology Society (EMBC)},
+  pages={6130--6133},
+  year={2021},
+  organization={IEEE},
+  pdf={https://paperhost.org/proceedings/embs/EMBC21/files/0994.pdf},
+  html={https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9630963},
+  video={https://youtu.be/JYxJJDVUMN8},
+  abstract={Retinal prosthesis (RP) is used to partially restore vision in patients with degenerative retinal diseases. Assessing the quality of RP-acquired (i.e., prosthetic) vision is needed to evaluate RP impact and prospects. Spatial distortions caused by electrical stimulation of the retina in RP, and the low number of electrodes, have limited the prosthetic vision: patients mostly localize shapes and shadows rather than recognizing objects. We simulate prosthetic vision and evaluate vision on image classification tasks, varying critical hardware parameters: total number and size of electrodes. We also simulate rehabilitation by re-training our models on prosthetic vision images. We find that electrode size has little impact on vision while at least 400 electrodes are needed to sufficiently restore vision (more than 65% classification accuracy on a complex visual task after rehabilitation). Argus II, a currently available implant, produces a low-resolution vision leading to low accuracy (21.3% score after rehabilitation) in complex vision tasks. Rehabilitation produces significant improvements (accuracy improvement of up to 30% on complex tasks, depending on the number of electrodes) in the attained vision, boosting our expectations for RP interventions and motivating the establishment of rehabilitation procedures for RP implantees.},
+  abbr={EMBC},
   selected={true}
 }
diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ icon: ⚛️ # the emoji used as the favicon (alternatively, provide image name
 
 url: https://alex-bene.github.io # the base hostname & protocol for your site
 baseurl: # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog/. Leave blank for root
-last_updated: true # set to true if you want to display last updated in the footer
+last_updated: false # set to true if you want to display last updated in the footer
 impressum_path: # set to path to include impressum link in the footer, use the same path as permalink in a page, helps to conform with EU GDPR
 
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ og_image: # The site-wide (default for all links) Open Graph preview image
 acm_id: # your dl.acm.org/profile/id
 blogger_url: # your blogger URL
 bluesky_url: # your bluesky URL
-dblp_url: https://dblp.org/pid/309/2921.html # your DBLP profile url
+dblp_url: # https://dblp.org/pid/309/2921.html # your DBLP profile url
 discord_id: # your discord id (18-digit unique numerical identifier)
 facebook_id: # your facebook id
 flickr_id: # your flickr id
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ quora_username: # your Quora username
 research_gate_profile: # your profile on ResearchGate
 scholar_userid: KA2BLWUAAAAJ # your Google Scholar ID
 scopus_id: # your profile on Scopus
-semanticscholar_id: 2141922097 # your Semantic Scholar ID
+semanticscholar_id: # 2141922097 # your Semantic Scholar ID
 spotify_id: # your spotify id
 stackoverflow_id: # your stackoverflow id
 telegram_username: # your Telegram user name
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ announcements:
   limit: 5 # leave blank to include all the news in the `_news` folder
 
 latest_posts:
-  enabled: true
+  enabled: false
   scrollable: true # adds a vertical scroll bar if there are more than 3 new posts items
   limit: 3 # leave blank to include all the blog posts
 
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ filtered_bibtex_keywords:
   ]
 
 # Maximum number of authors to be shown for each publication (more authors are visible on click)
-max_author_limit: 3 # leave blank to always show all authors
+max_author_limit: 4 # leave blank to always show all authors
 more_authors_animation_delay: 10 # more authors are revealed on click using animation; smaller delay means faster animation
 
 # Enables publication thumbnails. If disabled, none of the publications will display thumbnails, even if specified in the bib entry.
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ enable_masonry: true # enables automatic project cards arrangement
 enable_math: true # enables math typesetting (uses MathJax)
 enable_tooltips: false # enables automatic tooltip links generated for each section titles on pages and posts
 enable_darkmode: true # enables switching between light/dark modes
-enable_navbar_social: true # enables displaying social links in the navbar on the about page
+enable_navbar_social: false # enables displaying social links in the navbar on the about page
 enable_project_categories: true # enables categorization of projects into multiple categories
 enable_medium_zoom: true # enables image zoom feature (as on medium.com)
 enable_progressbar: true # enables a horizontal progress bar linked to the vertical scroll position
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ third_party_libraries:
   google_fonts:
     url:
       # fonts: "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300,400,500,700|Roboto+Slab:100,300,400,500,700|Material+Icons&display=swap"
-      fonts: "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Poppins:300,400,500,700|Poppins+Slab:100,300,400,500,700|Material+Icons&display=swap"
+      fonts: "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:100,200,300,400,500,600,700,800,900|Lato+Slab:100,200,300,400,500,600,700,800,900|Roboto:100,200,300,400,500,600,700|Roboto+Slab:100,200,300,400,500,600,700|Material+Icons&display=swap"
   highlightjs:
     integrity:
       css:

diff --git a/_data/venues.yml b/_data/venues.yml
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-"AJP":
-  url: https://aapt.scitation.org/journal/ajp
-  color: "#00369f"
-
-"PhysRev":
-  url: https://journals.aps.org/
-
-"Vision":
-  color: "#009f36"
+"arXiv":
+  color: "#f0ad4e"
+  text: "#050505"
diff --git a/_includes/header.liquid b/_includes/header.liquid
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   <nav id="navbar" class="navbar navbar-light navbar-expand-sm {% if site.navbar_fixed %}fixed-top{% else %}sticky-top{% endif %}" role="navigation">
     <div class="container">
       {% if page.permalink != '/' %}
-        <a class="navbar-brand title font-weight-lighter" href="{{ site.baseurl }}/">
+        <a class="navbar-brand title" href="{{ site.baseurl }}/">
           {% if site.title == 'blank' %}
             {% if site.first_name %}
               <span class="font-weight-bold">

diff --git a/_layouts/about.liquid b/_layouts/about.liquid
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ layout: default
 ---
 <div class="post">
   <header class="post-header">
-    <h1 class="post-title">
+    <h1 class="main_title">
       {% if site.title == 'blank' %}
-        <span class="font-weight-bold">{{ site.first_name }}</span> {{ site.middle_name }}
+        <span>{{ site.first_name }}</span> {{ site.middle_name }}
         {{ site.last_name }}
       {% else %}
         {{ site.title }}
@@ -22,8 +22,7 @@ layout: default
           {% if page.profile.image_circular %}
             {% assign profile_image_class = 'img-fluid z-depth-1 rounded-circle' %}
           {% else %}
-            {% assign profile_image_class = 'img-fluid z-depth-1
-      rounded' %}
+            {% assign profile_image_class = 'img-fluid z-depth-1 rounded' %}
           {% endif %}
           {% capture sizes %}(min-width: {{site.max_width}}) {{ site.max_width | minus: 30 | times: 0.3}}px, (min-width: 576px)
       30vw, 95vw"{% endcapture %}
@@ -35,6 +34,15 @@ layout: default
         {% if page.profile.more_info %}
           <div class="more-info">{{ page.profile.more_info }}</div>
         {% endif %}
+        <!-- Social -->
+        {% if page.social %}
+          <div class="social">
+            <div class="contact-icons">{% include social.liquid %}</div>
+
+            {% comment %} <div class="contact-note">{{ site.contact_note }}</div> {% endcomment %}
+          </div>
+        {% endif %}
+
       </div>
     {% endif %}
 
@@ -44,28 +52,27 @@ layout: default
     {% if page.news and site.announcements.enabled %}
       <hr>
       <h2>
-        <a href="{{ '/news/' | relative_url }}" style="color: inherit">Νews</a>
+        <a href="{{ '/news/' | relative_url }}" style="color: inherit">news</a>
       </h2>
       {% include news.liquid limit=true %}
     {% endif %}
 
+    <!-- Latest posts -->
+    {% if site.latest_posts.enabled %}
+      <h2>
+        <a href="{{ '/blog/' | relative_url }}" style="color: inherit">latest posts</a>
+      </h2>
+      {% include latest_posts.liquid %}
+    {% endif %}
+
     <!-- Selected papers -->
     {% if page.selected_papers %}
       <hr>
       <h2>
-        <a href="{{ '/publications/' | relative_url }}" style="color: inherit">Publications</a>
+        <a href="{{ '/publications/' | relative_url }}" style="color: inherit">publications</a>
       </h2>
       {% include selected_papers.liquid %}
     {% endif %}
 
-    <!-- Social -->
-    {% if page.social %}
-      <hr>
-      <div class="social">
-        <div class="contact-icons">{% include social.liquid %}</div>
-
-        <div class="contact-note">{{ site.contact_note }}</div>
-      </div>
-    {% endif %}
   </article>
 </div>
diff --git a/_layouts/bib.liquid b/_layouts/bib.liquid
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
           {% if site.data.venues[entry.abbr].color != blank %}
             {% assign venue_style = site.data.venues[entry.abbr].color | prepend: 'style="background-color:' | append: '"' %}
           {%- endif -%}
+          {% if site.data.venues[entry.abbr].text != blank %}
+            {% assign text_style = site.data.venues[entry.abbr].text | prepend: 'style="color:' | append: '"' %}
+          {%- endif -%}
           <abbr
             class="badge rounded w-100"
             {% if venue_style %}
@@ -18,7 +21,11 @@
             {% if site.data.venues[entry.abbr].url %}
               <a href="{{site.data.venues[entry.abbr].url}}">{{ entry.abbr }}</a>
             {% else %}
-              <div>{{- entry.abbr -}}</div>
+              <div
+              {% if text_style %}
+                {{ text_style }}
+              {% endif -%}  
+              >{{- entry.abbr -}}</div>
             {% endif %}
           </abbr>
         {% else %}
@@ -45,7 +52,7 @@
   {% endif %}
 
   <!-- Entry bib key -->
-  <div id="{{entry.key}}" class="{% if site.enable_publication_thumbnails %}col-sm-8{% else %}col-sm-10{% endif %}">
+  <div id="{{entry.key}}" class="{% if site.enable_publication_thumbnails %}col-sm-10{% else %}col-sm-12{% endif %}">
     <!-- Title -->
     <div class="title">{{ entry.title }}</div>
     <!-- Author -->

diff --git a/_pages/about.md b/_pages/about.md
@@ -15,11 +15,17 @@ profile:
 
 news: true # includes a list of news items
 selected_papers: true # includes a list of papers marked as "selected={true}"
-# social: true # includes social icons at the bottom of the page
+social: true # includes social icons at the bottom of the page
 ---
 
-Write your biography here. Tell the world about yourself. Link to your favorite [subreddit](http://reddit.com). You can put a picture in, too. The code is already in, just name your picture `prof_pic.jpg` and put it in the `img/` folder.
+Hi there! My name is Alexandros Benetatos. I'm currently looking for new opportunities and am particularly interested in pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science, with a focus on Generative 3D systems. I'm excited about the potential of creating realistic virtual human agents interacting with immersive 3D environments.
 
-Put your address / P.O. box / other info right below your picture. You can also disable any of these elements by editing `profile` property of the YAML header of your `_pages/about.md`. Edit `_bibliography/papers.bib` and Jekyll will render your [publications page](/al-folio/publications/) automatically.
+I received my MSc in Computer Science (Machine Learning) from the [National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)](https://www.ece.ntua.gr/en) and in close collaboration with [Deeplab](https://deeplab.ai/), advised by Prof. [Petros Maragos](https://robotics.ntua.gr/members/maragos/). I also completed my undergraduate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at NTUA.
 
-Link to your social media connections, too. This theme is set up to use [Font Awesome icons](https://fontawesome.com/) and [Academicons](https://jpswalsh.github.io/academicons/), like the ones below. Add your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Scholar, or just disable all of them.
+After graduation, I spent a great year as a Research Scientist at [Steel Perlot](https://steelperlot.com/), focusing on developing personalized text-to-image technologies in the field of generative AI.
+
+Aside from my research pursuits in CS, I am passionate about educational robotics. For the past decade, I have coached numerous student teams, leading them to win awards at both national and international competitions. It’s been a joy to inspire young students to delve into complex STEM fields and help them achieve their best.
+
+Reflecting on my past, I have many fond memories of representing Greece in robotics and physics Olympiads during high school, where my interests in computer science began.
+
+<i>Feel free to reach out via email or connect with me on LinkedIn. I am always open to new opportunities and collaborations.</i>