Minor updates

Rename "Teachings" into "Courses". Remove old courses, update links. Remove old members. Update news

Author: alessioGalatolo

_data/navigation.yml

@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ main:
   - title: Publications
     url: publications/
 
-  - title: Work with us!
+  - title: Work with us
     url: work_with_us/
 
-  - title: Teachings
-    url: teachings/
+  - title: Courses
+    url: courses/

_includes/feature_row

@@ -30,8 +30,28 @@
             </div>
           {% endif %}
 
-          {% if f.url %}
-            <p><a href="{{ f.url | relative_url }}" class="btn {{ f.btn_class }}">{{ f.btn_label | default: site.data.ui-text[site.locale].more_label | default: "Learn More" }}</a></p>
+          {%- comment -%}
+          If links array present, render multiple buttons. Otherwise, fallback to single.
+          Each link supports: url, label, class, target (optional).
+          {%- endcomment -%}
+          {% if f.links %}
+            <div class="feature__buttons">
+              {% for link in f.links %}
+                {% assign is_external = link.url | slice: 0,4 %}
+                <a
+                  href="{% if is_external == 'http' %}{{ link.url }}{% else %}{{ link.url | relative_url }}{% endif %}"
+                  class="btn {{ link.class }}"
+                  {% if is_external == 'http' and link.target != '_self' %}target="{{ link.target | default: '_blank' }}" rel="noopener noreferrer"{% endif %}
+                >{{ link.label | default: site.data.ui-text[site.locale].more_label | default: "Learn More" }}</a>
+              {% endfor %}
+            </div>
+          {% elsif f.url %}
+            <p>
+              <a href="{{ f.url | relative_url }}"
+                 class="btn {{ f.btn_class }}">
+                 {{ f.btn_label | default: site.data.ui-text[site.locale].more_label | default: "Learn More" }}
+              </a>
+            </p>
           {% endif %}
         </div>
       </div>

_master-projects/alessio_projects.md

@@ -1,18 +1,20 @@
 ---
 title: "Large Language Models"
 excerpt: ""
-description: "Alessio is open to master's thesis and internships on Large Language Models in selected topic such as: knowledge augmentation and editing in language models, multi-modal generation for social robots, moral and ethical reasoning."
+description: "Alessio is open to master's thesis and internships on Large Language Models in selected topics."
 layout: splash
 header: 
   overlay_color: "#000"
   overlay_image: "assets/images/group_picture_2022.jpg"
   overlay_filter: "0.5"
 ---
 
-[Alessio](https://www.alessiogalatolo.com/) is open to Master's thesis and internships on Large Language Models in selected topic such as: knowledge augmentation and editing in language models, multi-modal generation for social robots, moral and ethical reasoning.
+[Alessio](https://www.alessiogalatolo.com/master-projects) is open to Master's thesis and internships on Large Language Models in selected topics.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 Strong knowledge of PyTorch and Language Models is required. Willingness to purse a publication is an advantage.
 
 ## Contact
-For more information: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
+More information: [alessiogalatolo.com/master-projects](https://www.alessiogalatolo.com/master-projects)
+
+Contact: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

_pages/courses.md

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+---
+permalink: /courses/
+title: Courses
+layout: splash
+header:
+  overlay_color: "#000"
+  overlay_filter: "0.5"
+  overlay_image: "/assets/images/group_picture_2022.jpg"
+excerpt: "Currently the lab is currently responsible for 2 Master's level courses."
+
+feature_row:
+  - image_path: "assets/images/courses/iis.jfif"
+    title: "Intelligent Interactive Systems (5 hp, 7.5 hp discontinued)"
+    excerpt: "This course will provide an overview of computational techniques for intelligent, embodied interactive systems, including approaches for perception (e.g., vision and other modalities of perception), learning and interaction abilities. The course will involve computer vision techniques, behaviour generation/control and machine learning-based approaches that can be used to analyse and adapt to humans interacting with embodied machines."
+    url: https://www.uu.se/en/study/course?query=1MD032
+  - image_path: "assets/images/courses/social_robotics.jpg"
+    title: "Human-Robot Interaction (5/10 hp)"
+    excerpt: "This course will provide an overview of the science and technology of human-robot interaction; theories and methods for the design and evaluation of robots interacting with human users; fundamentals of verbal and non-verbal communication for situated interaction with physical robots."
+    links:
+    - url: https://www.uu.se/en/study/course?query=1MD043
+      label: Learn More (5hp)
+    - url: https://www.uu.se/en/study/course?query=1MD044
+      label: Learn More (10hp)
+
+---
+
+{% include feature_row type="center" %}

_pages/index.md

@@ -63,8 +63,12 @@ At Uppsala Social Robotics lab we aim to design and develop robots that learn to
 {% include feature_row id="feature_row_news" type="left" %}
 -->
 
+***September 2025*** Ginevra Castellano was awarded the Thuréus Prize 2025!
+
 ***August 2025*** We had three publcations featured at RO-MAN 2025!
 
+***June 2025*** Mengyu Zhong successfully defended her PhD thesis "Bridging Technology and Mental Health: Challenges and Opportunities in Robot-assisted Perinatal Depression Screening". Congratulations Dr. Zhong! 
+
 ***April 2025*** Yue Lou has joined our lab as a PhD student. Welcome Yue! 
 
 ***November 2024*** Marc Fraile successfully defended his PhD thesis and became a USRL alumnus. Congratulations Dr. Fraile! 
@@ -79,16 +83,6 @@ At Uppsala Social Robotics lab we aim to design and develop robots that learn to
 
 ***March 2024*** Lux Miranda co-organized the 3rd version of the Workshop: [Robo-Identity: Designing for Identity in the Shared World](https://sites.google.com/view/hri2024workshop-robo-identity3/home).
 
-***August 2023*** Natalia Calvo Barajas is continuing at the lab as a postdoctoral researcher!
-
-***July 2023*** We have one full paper accepted at the IEEE RO-MAN 2023 conference!
-
-***March 2023*** Natalia Calvo Barajas co-organized the 2nd version of the Workshop: [CRITTER: Child-Robot Interaction and interdisciplinary research](https://child-robot-interaction.github.io).
-
-***March 2023*** Anastasia's abstract got accepted for participation in the same workshop.
-
-***March 2023*** Natalia Calvo Barajas was recognized as an "outstanding reviewer" based on her contributions to the peer-review process of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2023.
-
 [Older news](old_news){: .btn .btn--inverse}
 
 

_pages/old_news.md

@@ -6,7 +6,17 @@ title: Old news
 
 ## 2023
 
-***April:***: we have three postdoc positions open at the lab right now (positions were filled)! Deadlines for applications: end of April/beginning of May.
+***August*** Natalia Calvo Barajas is continuing at the lab as a postdoctoral researcher!
+
+***July*** We have one full paper accepted at the IEEE RO-MAN 2023 conference!
+
+***April:***: We have three postdoc positions open at the lab right now (positions were filled)! Deadlines for applications: end of April/beginning of May.
+
+***March*** Natalia Calvo Barajas co-organized the 2nd version of the Workshop: [CRITTER: Child-Robot Interaction and interdisciplinary research](https://child-robot-interaction.github.io).
+
+***March*** Anastasia's abstract got accepted for participation in the same workshop.
+
+***March*** Natalia Calvo Barajas was recognized as an "outstanding reviewer" based on her contributions to the peer-review process of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2023.
 
 ***January:***: we had one full paper and two late-breaking reports accepted at the [HRI 2023 conference](https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2023/)!
 

_pages/people.md

@@ -58,13 +58,6 @@ feature_row_postdocs:
     excerpt: "Ronald Cumbal is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, working on the SymAware project. His work involves embedding communication mechanisms to convey intention and decision-making in autonomous agents. He is passionate about robotics, dialogue systems, and human-centered Technology. His research focuses on developing adaptive robots that enhance interaction through various communication mechanisms, aiming to integrate autonomous agents into diverse social settings, with a particular emphasis on group interactions and multicultural users."
 
 feature_row_phds:
-  - image_path: mengyu
-    alt: "Mengyu Zhong"
-    title: "Mengyu Zhong"
-    excerpt: "Mengyu Zhong is a PhD student in the Social Robotics Lab. She received an MSc in IT and Cognition from the University of Copenhagen in 2021. She believes that AI-powered robots are changing the world and will free humans from trivial and repetitive works. Her work is focused on data-driven socially assistive robotics, and it is part of the Project funded by WoMHeR. She is interested in human-robot interaction, multi-modal deep learning, and especially robot-assisted medical diagnosis."
-    # btn_label: "Personal website"
-    # btn_class: "btn btn--primary"
-    # url: https://www.it.uu.se/katalog/menzh316
   - image_path: lux
     alt: "Lux Miranda"
     title: "Lux Miranda"
@@ -131,6 +124,7 @@ feature_row_external_phds:
 
 
 # Alumni
+Mengyu Zhong, Ph.D.
 
 Marc Fraile, Ph.D. 
 

_pages/teachings.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ There are currently no open positions.
 ---
 
 # Master's projects
-The following is a list of project that our lab offers that can be expanded into e.g. a master thesis or an intenship at the lab.
+The following is a list of project that our lab offers that can be expanded into e.g. a master thesis or an internship at the lab. More project may be available by contacting each member separately.
 
 {% for collection in site.master-projects %}
   <h2> {{ collection.title }} </h2>