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Randol Yao

I am a third-year PhD candidate in the Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management (TIES) group at the MIT Sloan School of Management. My research focuses on the economics of science and innovation, with an emphasis on international knowledge diffusion.

Prior to joining MIT, I received my bachelor’s degree in Economics from UC Berkeley and worked as a predoctoral research assistant with Prof. Abhishek Nagaraj.

Archive Layout with Content

A variety of common markup showing how the theme styles them.

Header one

Header two

Header three

Header four

Header five

Header six

Blockquotes

Single line blockquote:

Quotes are cool.

Tables

Definition Lists

Definition List Title

Definition list division.

Startup

A startup company or startup is a company or temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

#dowork

Coined by Rob Dyrdek and his personal body guard Christopher “Big Black” Boykins, “Do Work” works as a self motivator, to motivating your friends.

Do It Live

I’ll let Bill O’Reilly explain this one.

Unordered Lists (Nested)

• List item one
  • List item one
    • List item one
    • List item two
    • List item three
    • List item four
  • List item two
  • List item three
  • List item four
• List item two
• List item three
• List item four

Ordered List (Nested)

1. List item one
   1. List item one
      1. List item one
      2. List item two
      3. List item three
      4. List item four
   2. List item two
   3. List item three
   4. List item four
2. List item two
3. List item three
4. List item four

Buttons

Make any link standout more when applying the .btn class.

Notices

Watch out! You can also add notices by appending {: .notice} to a paragraph.

HTML Tags

Address Tag

Anchor Tag (aka. Link)

This is an example of a link.

Abbreviation Tag

The abbreviation CSS stands for “Cascading Style Sheets”.

Cite Tag

“Code is poetry.” —Automattic

Code Tag

You will learn later on in these tests that word-wrap: break-word; will be your best friend.

Strike Tag

This tag will let you strikeout text.

Emphasize Tag

The emphasize tag should italicize text.

Insert Tag

This tag should denote inserted text.

Keyboard Tag

This scarcely known tag emulates keyboard text, which is usually styled like the <code> tag.

Preformatted Tag

This tag styles large blocks of code.

.post-title {
  margin: 0 0 5px;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-size: 38px;
  line-height: 1.2;
  and here's a line of some really, really, really, really long text, just to see how the PRE tag handles it and to find out how it overflows;
}

Quote Tag

Developers, developers, developers… –Steve Ballmer

Strong Tag

This tag shows bold text.

Subscript Tag

Getting our science styling on with H₂O, which should push the “2” down.

Superscript Tag

Still sticking with science and Isaac Newton’s E = MC², which should lift the 2 up.

Variable Tag

This allows you to denote variables.

.post-title {
  margin: 0 0 5px;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-size: 38px;
  line-height: 1.2;
  and here's a line of some really, really, really, really long text, just to see how the PRE tag handles it and to find out how it overflows;
}

.post-title {
  margin: 0 0 5px;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-size: 38px;
  line-height: 1.2;
  and here's a line of some really, really, really, really long text, just to see how the PRE tag handles it and to find out how it overflows;
}

Posts by Category

Posts by Collection

portfolio

publications

talks

teaching

CV

Education

• Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected)
• M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014
• B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012

Work experience

• Spring 2024: Academic Pages Collaborator
  • Github University
  • Duties includes: Updates and improvements to template
  • Supervisor: The Users
• Fall 2015: Research Assistant
  • Github University
  • Duties included: Merging pull requests
  • Supervisor: Professor Hub
• Summer 2015: Research Assistant
  • Github University
  • Duties included: Tagging issues
  • Supervisor: Professor Git

Skills

• Skill 1
• Skill 2
  • Sub-skill 2.1
  • Sub-skill 2.2
  • Sub-skill 2.3
• Skill 3

Publications

Patent Visibility and the Diffusion of Trapped Knowledge

Talks

Conference Proceeding talk 3 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

March 01, 2014

Conference proceedings talk at Testing Institute of America 2014 Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA

Talk 2 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

February 01, 2014

Talk at London School of Testing, London, UK

Tutorial 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

March 01, 2013

Tutorial at UC-Berkeley Institute for Testing Science, Berkeley CA, USA

Talk 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

March 01, 2012

Talk at UC San Francisco, Department of Testing, San Francisco, California

Teaching

Teaching experience 2

Teaching experience 1

Service and leadership

• Currently signed in to 43 different slack teams

Markdown

Locations of key files/directories

• Basic config options: _config.yml
• Top navigation bar config: _data/navigation.yml
• Single pages: _pages/
• Collections of pages are .md or .html files in:
  • _publications/
  • _portfolio/
  • _posts/
  • _teaching/
  • _talks/
• Footer: _includes/footer.html
• Static files (like PDFs): /files/
• Profile image (can set in _config.yml): images/profile.png

Tips and hints

• Name a file “.md” to have it render in markdown, name it “.html” to render in HTML.
• Go to the commit list (on your repo) to find the last version Github built with Jekyll.
  • Green check: successful build
  • Orange circle: building
  • Red X: error
  • No icon: not built
• Academic Pages uses Jekyll Kramdown, GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) parser, which is similar to the version of Markdown used on GitHub, but may have some minor differences.
  • Some of emoji supported on GitHub should be supposed via the Jemoji plugin .
  • The best list of the supported emoji can be found in the Emojis for Jekyll via Jemoji blog post.

Resources

• Liquid syntax guide
• MathJax Documentation

MathJax

Support for MathJax Version 3.0 is included in the template:

The default delimiters of $$...$$ and \\[...\\] are supported for displayed mathematics, while \\(...\\) should be used for in-line mathematics (ex., \(a^2 + b^2 = c^2\))

Note that since Academic Pages uses Markdown which cases some interference with MathJax and LaTeX for escaping characters and new lines, although some workarounds exist.

Markdown guide

Academic Pages uses kramdown for Markdown rendering, which has some differences from other Markdown implementations such as GitHub’s. In addition to this guide, please see the kramdown Syntax page for full documentation.

Header three

Header four

Header five

Header six

Blockquotes

Single line blockquote:

Quotes are cool.

Tables

Table 1

Table 2

Definition Lists

Definition List Title

Definition list division.

Startup

A startup company or startup is a company or temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

#dowork

Coined by Rob Dyrdek and his personal body guard Christopher “Big Black” Boykins, “Do Work” works as a self motivator, to motivating your friends.

Do It Live

I’ll let Bill O’Reilly explain this one.

Unordered Lists (Nested)

• List item one
  • List item one
    • List item one
    • List item two
    • List item three
    • List item four
  • List item two
  • List item three
  • List item four
• List item two
• List item three
• List item four

Ordered List (Nested)

1. List item one
   1. List item one
      1. List item one
      2. List item two
      3. List item three
      4. List item four
   2. List item two
   3. List item three
   4. List item four
2. List item two
3. List item three
4. List item four

Buttons

Make any link standout more when applying the .btn class.

Notices

Basic notices or call-outs are supported using the following syntax:

**Watch out!** You can also add notices by appending `{: .notice}` to the line following paragraph.
{: .notice}

which wil render as:

Watch out! You can also add notices by appending {: .notice} to the line following paragraph.

Footnotes

Footnotes can be useful for clarifying points in the text, or citing information.¹ Markdown support numeric footnotes, as well as text as long as the values are unique.²

This is the regular text.[^1] This is more regular text.[^note]

[^1]: This is the footnote itself.
[^note]: This is another footnote.

HTML Tags

Address Tag

Anchor Tag (aka. Link)

This is an example of a link.

Abbreviation Tag

The abbreviation CSS stands for “Cascading Style Sheets”.

Cite Tag

“Code is poetry.” —Automattic

Code Tag

You will learn later on in these tests that word-wrap: break-word; will be your best friend.

You can also write larger blocks of code with syntax highlighting supported for some languages, such as Python:

print('Hello World!')

or R:

print("Hello World!", quote = FALSE)

Details Tag (collapsible sections)

The HTML <details> tag works well with Markdown and allows you to include collapsible sections, see W3Schools for more information on how to use the tag.

The source code:

<details>
  <summary>Collapsed by default</summary>
  This section was collapsed by default!
</details>

Or, you can leave a section open by default by including the open attribute in the tag:

Emphasize Tag

The emphasize tag should italicize text.

Insert Tag

This tag should denote inserted text.

Keyboard Tag

This scarcely known tag emulates keyboard text, which is usually styled like the <code> tag.

Preformatted Tag

This tag styles large blocks of code.

.post-title {
  margin: 0 0 5px;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-size: 38px;
  line-height: 1.2;
  and here's a line of some really, really, really, really long text, just to see how the PRE tag handles it and to find out how it overflows;
}

Quote Tag

Developers, developers, developers… –Steve Ballmer

Strike Tag

This tag will let you strikeout text.

Strong Tag

This tag shows bold text.

Subscript Tag

Getting our science styling on with H₂O, which should push the “2” down.

Superscript Tag

Still sticking with science and Isaac Newton’s E = MC², which should lift the 2 up.

Variable Tag

This allows you to denote variables.

Footnotes

The footnotes in the page will be returned following this line, return to the section on Markdown Footnotes.

Page not in menu

This is a page not in the menu. You can use markdown in this page.

Heading 1

Heading 2

Page Archive

Portfolio

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Sitemap

Pages

Posts

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Posts by Tags

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Talk map

This map is generated from a Jupyter Notebook file in /_talks/talkmap.ipynb, which mines the location fields in the .md files in _talks/.

Talks and presentations

See a map of all the places I've given a talk!

Teaching

Terms and Privacy Policy

Blog posts

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