Personal site of Aaryan Samanta: research, competitions, and the organizations I run.

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✨ What this is

One fast static page that makes a record easy to check. Every number is specific, linked to a public source where one exists, and unfinished work is marked with a hollow dot instead of being dressed up as a result.

• 🪶 No build step, no framework, no trackers, no third-party requests. Fonts are self-hosted.
• 🌗 Light and dark themes, keyboard-friendly, respects reduced motion, prints cleanly.
• 🧩 Works without JavaScript. The script only adds a nav highlight, an interactive hero figure, and copy buttons for BibTeX.
• ✅ Guarded by a checker that fails on a broken link, a phone number, an unexpected email, or placeholder text.

Tip

Open the live site and drag across the curves in the hero. They are the displacement, velocity and acceleration curves behind my Stanford project, and the banner above animates the same idea.

🧭 What is on the page

	Section	What it holds
🏠	Hero	Selected results, and a figure you can drag across to read displacement, velocity and acceleration
🔬	Research	Papers with a copy-BibTeX button, mentored research, projects
🏆	Competitions	Results with the field size where I know it
🏗️	Building and leading	AI Ethos, NextGenAI, CogArc, teams and service
🏃	Outside the classroom	Track, band, languages
🎓	Academics	School, scores, recognition, coursework capstones
🔗	Sources	Where each claim can be checked, or that records are available on request

🎨 Design

Type	Newsreader for reading and display, Hanken Grotesk for labels and data
Palette
Status dots	● filled blue = done · ● filled teal = accepted · ○ hollow = ongoing, in progress, under review

🔄 How a change ships

flowchart LR
    A([✏️ Edit index.html]) --> B{{🛡️ tools/check.py}}
    B -- problems --> A
    B -- ok --> C([⬆️ git push to main])
    C --> D([🌐 GitHub Pages])
    classDef edit fill:#2545e6,stroke:#2545e6,color:#fff
    classDef guard fill:#f2b632,stroke:#b9840a,color:#1a1300
    classDef ship fill:#0b9d95,stroke:#0b9d95,color:#fff
    class A edit
    class B guard
    class C,D ship

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🗂️ Repository layout

index.html                     the whole site: semantic HTML, JSON-LD for search engines
404.html                       custom not-found page
aaryan-samanta-resume.pdf      linked from the hero and contact section (keep this filename)
assets/css/style.css           design tokens, layout, components, dark mode, print styles
assets/js/main.js              optional enhancements (see above)
assets/fonts/                  Newsreader + Hanken Grotesk (variable, latin subset, SIL OFL)
assets/img/                    favicon, touch icon, social preview, animated README banner
robots.txt, sitemap.xml        search engine hints
tools/check.py                 offline checks: links, ids, status labels, privacy, placeholders, dates
tools/build_resume.py          regenerates the resume PDF in the site's own fonts
tools/build_banner.py          regenerates the animated README banner
docs/CONTENT-GUIDE.md          how to add or change an entry, and the rules I follow
.github/workflows/check.yml    runs tools/check.py on every push and pull request

🚀 Preview locally

python3 -m http.server 8000
# open http://localhost:8000
python3 tools/check.py        # run before every commit

✍️ Updating content

Everything lives in index.html. Each entry is one <article class="row"> (Research, Building, Outside the classroom) or one <li> (Competitions). Copy a nearby entry and edit it. The full guide, including the status labels and the rules for promoting an item from "in progress" to "done", is in docs/CONTENT-GUIDE.md.

After any edit that changes content:

1. Update the footer <time> and the JSON-LD dateModified in index.html.
2. Update lastmod in sitemap.xml (tools/check.py fails if these disagree).
3. If the change belongs on the resume, edit tools/build_resume.py and run it.
4. If a headline result changed, edit the facts chips in tools/banner/banner.html and run tools/build_banner.py.
5. Run python3 tools/check.py, then click any external link you added or changed.

Important

Only completed results go in as results. Plans and targets do not. If two files disagree about a number, settle it once and update everything that repeats it.

📄 Rebuilding the resume PDF

pip install -r tools/requirements.txt
python3 tools/build_resume.py

This overwrites aaryan-samanta-resume.pdf in place, so links to it keep working. The PDF deliberately has no phone number and no reference contact details.

🎞️ Rebuilding the banner

pip install playwright pillow && playwright install chromium
python3 tools/build_banner.py

Renders 72 frames of tools/banner/banner.html and writes assets/img/readme-banner.gif (about 0.25 MB).

🌐 Deploying

This repository is a GitHub Pages user site, so it must be named exactly aaryansamanta.github.io. Settings, Pages, Source: Deploy from a branch, branch main, folder / (root). The site is live within a minute of each push.

Warning

Do not add a CNAME file unless you intend to move the site to a custom domain. It would redirect this address.

⚖️ License

• Code (HTML structure, CSS, JavaScript, tools): MIT, see LICENSE.
• Written content, resume and personal data: all rights reserved.
• Fonts: SIL Open Font License, see assets/fonts/.

_{Built by hand, checked by script. Updated September 2026.}