raprakashvi.github.io

Personal academic site for Ravi Prakash — robotics, multimodal sensing and surgical autonomy. Live at https://raprakashvi.github.io/.

Seven static pages, generated from one shell plus per-page content fragments. No framework, no runtime dependencies, no server.

Working on it

python3 scripts/build.py                          # generate the pages
python3 scripts/check_site.py                     # must print "0 checks failed"
python3 -m http.server 8765 --bind 127.0.0.1      # preview at localhost:8765

Never hand-edit index.html or */index.html — they are build output and the next build overwrites them. Edit the source, rebuild, then check.

Layout

Path	What it is
src/pages/*.html	page content: home, about, research, publications, teaching, media, portfolio, 404
src/publications.json	one record per paper — drives the list, the filters, the deep links and the Schema.org data
src/site.css	the whole design system
src/site.js	behaviour: nav, filters, video players, legacy hash redirects
scripts/build.py	the generator
scripts/check_site.py	integrity and SEO checks
index.html, */index.html	generated — do not edit
assets/	built CSS and JS, favicon, social images
images/, papers/	figures, photographs, PDFs

Adding a paper, adding news, and the module grammar are documented in RESEARCH-README.md.

Deploying

GitHub Pages serves master from the repository root (.nojekyll is present, so the files are served exactly as committed). Push to master and the site updates.

Rollback points are tagged:

• pre-rebuild-2026 — the single-page site as it stood before the September 2026 rebuild
• rebuild-2026-live — the first seven-page release

git reset --hard pre-rebuild-2026 && git push --force-with-lease origin master

Notes

• googlef70927c106d4d785.html is the Google Search Console verification file. Keep it.
• .nojekyll disables Jekyll processing. Keep it.
• Old #hash links redirect to the real URLs in src/site.js; keep that map in step if a page is ever renamed.