Hello! I’m Ji-Zhe (Knight) Zhou, an associate professor at Sichuan University. This is my new academic website built with Jekyll and deployed on GitHub Pages.

Why Jekyll?

As an academic, I needed a simple way to maintain a web presence without dealing with complex content management systems. Jekyll offers:

1. Git-based workflow - Write in Markdown, push to GitHub, done
2. Fast and secure - Static HTML, no database needed
3. Free hosting - GitHub Pages is free for public repositories
4. Version control - All changes are tracked

How to Update Your Blog

Simply create a new file in _posts/ with this format:

---
layout: post
title: "Your Post Title"
date: 2026-04-27
---

Your content here in Markdown...

Then push to GitHub and your site will update automatically!

Next Steps

I’ll be posting about:

• Research updates and paper releases
• Conference experiences and travel notes
• Technical tutorials on deep learning
• Thoughts on AI safety and ethics

Stay tuned! 🚀