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index.html

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 <h2 id="recent-news">Recent News</h2>
 
+<h3 id="2026">2026</h3>
+
+<div class="post-excerpt-container">
+  <div class="post-excerpt">
+    
+    
+    
+
+    
+
+    <div class="post-excerpt-text">
+      <a href="/news/2026-06-11-preston-defense.html">Preston successfully defended his PhD dissertation!</a>
+
+      <div class="post-info">
+  
+
+  
+  
+
+  
+    <span data-tooltip="Originally published on">
+      <i class="icon fa-regular fa-calendar"></i>
+      <span>June 11, 2026</span>
+    </span>
+  
+
+  <!--  -->
+</div>
+
+
+  
+
+
+  <div class="tags" data-link="/blog">
+    
+      <a href="blog?search=%22tag:%20news%22" class="tag" data-tooltip='Show items with the tag "news"'>
+        news
+      </a>
+    
+  </div>
+
+
+
+
+
+      
+      
+      <p data-search="Preston Jiang successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled Inferring Spatiotemporal Structure through Self-Supervised Learning: From Predictive Coding to Neuro Foundation Models .">
+        <!-- Preston Jiang successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled
+“Inferring Spatiotemporal Structure through Self-Supervised Learning: From Predictive Coding to Neuro Foundation Models”.
+ -->
+      </p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<h3 id="2025">2025</h3>
+
 <div class="post-excerpt-container">
   <div class="post-excerpt">
 
@@ -490,7 +548,7 @@ <h2 id="recent-news">Recent News</h2>
   <!-- 
     <span data-tooltip="Last updated on">
       <i class="icon fa-solid fa-clock-rotate-left"></i>
-      <span>January 21, 2026</span>
+      <span>June 11, 2026</span>
     </span>
    -->
 </div>
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   <!-- 
     <span data-tooltip="Last updated on">
       <i class="icon fa-solid fa-clock-rotate-left"></i>
-      <span>January 21, 2026</span>
+      <span>June 11, 2026</span>
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     <span data-tooltip="Last updated on">
       <i class="icon fa-solid fa-clock-rotate-left"></i>
-      <span>January 21, 2026</span>
+      <span>June 11, 2026</span>
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    -->
 </div>
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   <!-- 
     <span data-tooltip="Last updated on">
       <i class="icon fa-solid fa-clock-rotate-left"></i>
-      <span>January 21, 2026</span>
+      <span>June 11, 2026</span>
     </span>
    -->
 </div>

news/2025-02-25-shuchen.html

@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ <h1 class="center">Welcome, Dr. Shuchen Wu!</h1>
   <!-- 
     <span data-tooltip="Last updated on">
       <i class="icon fa-solid fa-clock-rotate-left"></i>
-      <span>January 21, 2026</span>
+      <span>June 11, 2026</span>
     </span>
    -->
 </div>

news/2025-03-14-newsite.html

@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ <h1 class="center">New website is now live!</h1>
   <!-- 
     <span data-tooltip="Last updated on">
       <i class="icon fa-solid fa-clock-rotate-left"></i>
-      <span>January 21, 2026</span>
+      <span>June 11, 2026</span>
     </span>
    -->
 </div>

news/2025-05-15-pretraining_paper.html

@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ <h1 class="center">New paper on the scaling effect of neuroscience foundation mo
   <!-- 
     <span data-tooltip="Last updated on">
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-      <span>January 21, 2026</span>
+      <span>June 11, 2026</span>
     </span>
    -->
 </div>

news/2025-09-24-caesar.html

@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ <h1 class="center">Welcome new PhD student Caesar Dai!</h1>
   <!-- 
     <span data-tooltip="Last updated on">
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-      <span>January 21, 2026</span>
+      <span>June 11, 2026</span>
     </span>
    -->
 </div>
@@ -466,6 +466,11 @@ <h1 class="center">Welcome new PhD student Caesar Dai!</h1>
   </span>
   <span>
 
+      Next post <i class="icon fa-solid fa-angle-right"></i><br>
+      <a href="/news/2026-06-11-preston-defense.html">
+        Preston successfully defended his PhD dissertation!
+      </a>
+    
   </span>
 </div>
   </section>