Mentees page — accuracy review & redesign notes

Generated from the live _mentees collection (125 records) on 2026-06-20.

Verified counts (these are correct on the current page)

Placement of the 92 graduated mentees with a known current role: 63 in industry, 18 in academia, 11 at national labs / research institutes (24 alumni have no position listed yet).

Accuracy issues found

1. About page is out of date. _pages/about.md (line ~35) says Dimitrios “has mentored 24 Ph.D. students and 16 postdoctoral researchers.” The collection now holds 36 PhD students (27 graduated + 9 current) and 17 postdocs. Suggested wording: “mentored 36 Ph.D. students (27 graduated) and 17 postdoctoral researchers.” Not changed automatically — confirm the framing you prefer (e.g. graduated-only vs. total) and I’ll edit it.

2. Two malformed LinkedIn URLs — FIXED in the live source:
   • riyos-pudasaini-…-ug.md had a trailing "" (link rendered broken). ✅ corrected
   • 2015-02-01-aleksandr-khasymski.md had a trailing //. ✅ corrected
3. 24 alumni have no current_position. Not an error, but filling these would make the “Where they are now” band more complete. Optional.

What the redesign adds (visual)

• A stats band (total + per-category counts) at the top, auto-computed from the collection.
• A “Where they are now” placement bar (industry / academia / national labs), auto-computed.
• Current students as a card grid instead of a plain list, with co-advisor noted.
• Alumni as clean, bordered rows grouped by category, with position emphasized.
• (Mockup only) a live search + category filter over the alumni.

Files in this folder

The mockup’s interactive search is plain JS for preview purposes; the Jekyll mentees.md keeps the same look using your theme’s CSS (search can be added later if you want it live).