updates

Author: gsvic

_config.yml

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ footer_text: >
 keywords: jekyll, jekyll-theme, academic-website, portfolio-website  # add your own keywords or leave empty
 
 lang: en # the language of your site (for example: en, fr, cn, ru, etc.)
-icon: ⚛️  # the emoji used as the favicon (alternatively, provide image name in /assets/img/)
+icon: cornell.png  # the emoji used as the favicon (alternatively, provide image name in /assets/img/)
 
 url: https://gsvic.github.io # the base hostname & protocol for your site
 baseurl: # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog/

_pages/about.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 layout: about
 title: about
 permalink: /
-subtitle: <a href='#'>Cornell University, Computer Science Department</a>
+subtitle: <a href='https://cis.cornell.edu/keyword/bowers'>Cornell University, Computer Science Department</a>
 
 profile:
   align: right
@@ -18,10 +18,18 @@ selected_papers: true # includes a list of papers marked as "selected={true}"
 social: true  # includes social icons at the bottom of the page
 ---
 
-I am a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell, working with Immanuel Trummer. Previously, I have been a Senior Software Engineer at 
-TileDB. Furthermore, I have worked at Unravel, AISERA, BEAT (previously known as TaxiBEAT), and isMOOD. I have also 
-spent two years as a Researcher at the Computing Systems Laboratory (CSLab) at the National and Technical University of 
-Athens. I hold an M.Sc. in Computing Systems (Software and Hardware) from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
-and a B.Sc. in Informatics from Ionian University.
+I am a Ph.D. candidate at the [Department of Computer Science](https://www.cs.cornell.edu/) at Cornell. 
+My research interests lie in the area of database management systems, including learned query optimization and 
+distributed query engines. I am part of [Cornell Database Group](https://itrummer.github.io/dbgrouphp/),
+advised by [Immanuel Trummer](https://itrummer.github.io/). I hold an M.Sc. in Computing Systems 
+from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 
+(supervised by [Yannis Ioannidis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yannis_Ioannidis)) and a B.Sc. from Ionian University
+(supervised by [Dimitrios Tsoumakos](http://www.cslab.ntua.gr/~dtsouma/)).
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+
+
+Prior to Cornell, I was a Senior Software Engineer at [TileDB](https://tiledb.com/). Furthermore, I have held engineering positions at 
+[Unravel](https://www.unraveldata.com/), [AISERA](https://aisera.com/), [BEAT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_(app))
+(previously known as TaxiBEAT) and [isMOOD](https://ismood.com/). I have also spent two years as a Researcher at the 
+[Computing Systems Laboratory (CSLab)](https://twitter.com/cslab_ntua?lang=en) at the National and Technical University of  Athens. 
 
-My research interests lie in the area of database systems, including federated query engines and query optimization.