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@@ -8,27 +8,14 @@ Ultimate frisbee has been a constant in my life since college, and coaching has
 
 ## Rose-Hulman Ultimate Frisbee
 
-I've served as the club coach for Rose-Hulman's Ultimate Frisbee team since November 2017, investing over 600 hours across six years. I develop offensive and defensive systems and plays, and I work closely with team captains on strategy and recruiting.
-
-I nominated team captain Chris Miller for Student Leader of the Quarter---and he won (Winter 2019--20).
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-## Indianapolis Alleycats
-
-In 2015, I was team captain of the Indianapolis Alleycats, a semi-professional Ultimate team in the American Ultimate Disc League.
+I've served as the club coach for Rose-Hulman's Ultimate Frisbee team since November 2017. I develop offensive and defensive systems and plays, and I work closely with team captains on strategy, engagement, and recruiting.
 
 ## Indiana University
 
 I coached the IU Men's Ultimate Frisbee team from January 2010 to May 2014 during my graduate studies.
 
 ## Community Ultimate
 
-During the summers of 2022 and 2023, I organized an inclusive ultimate frisbee team in Bloomington, Indiana, open to players of all skill levels.
+During the summers of 2022 and 2023, I organized an inclusive ultimate frisbee team (Los Heros) in Bloomington, Indiana, open to players of all skill levels.
 
 At Goshen College, I served as Ultimate Frisbee Club President (2007--2008).
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-## Other Leadership
-
-- Social Chair, CS Graduate Student Association, Indiana University (2010--2011)
-- Indoor Roller Hockey Club President, Goshen College (2005--2007)
-- Project Manager, Project Management Class, Goshen College (2007)
-- Volunteer Camp Counselor, Laurelville Mennonite Church Center, Mt. Pleasant, PA (July 2006)

_pages/coaching.md

@@ -14,40 +14,27 @@ Key elements of the lab's mentoring approach:
 - **Weekly Fun Informal Research Meetings (FIRMs)** since Spring 2020
 - **Spring Research Opportunity Presentations** (2021--2024) where students present to potential recruits
 - Research journal accountability system, reflective essay assessments, and learning contracts
-- 13+ unique student co-authors on publications
-- 35 letters of recommendation written
 
 ## Student Highlights
 
-- **Jacob Ashworth** -- EvoDevo project, 3 publications, won Claude Anderson CSSE TA of the Year
+- **Jacob Ashworth** -- EvoDevo project, (pubished in ALIFE 2021,2022,2023)
 - **Cooper Anderson** -- NSF-funded research, *Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience* publication, created a CTRNN visualizer
 - **Nicklas Carpenter** -- Evolvable hardware, won IPROP award
-- **Cullen LaKemper** -- GECCO 2022, first student to physically attend a conference with me
-- **Julian Fiorito** -- EvoDevo project, 2 publications
-- **Yingtong Zhang** -- ALIFE 2024 and *Artificial Life* journal
+- **Cullen LaKemper** -- attended GECCO 2022
+- **Julian Fiorito** -- EvoDevo project, (ALIFE 2022, 2023)
+- **Yingtong Zhang** -- ALIFE 2024 Late Breaking Abstract
 - **Alexa Renner & Emile Marois** -- ALIFE 2024
 - **Edward Kim** -- GARP project led to a Heron Systems internship
 - **Eric Tu** -- Used evolutionary computation in a job interview, got an offer from Shortwave
-- **Lanxi Wang** -- Accepted to Nanyang Technological University
 - **Dillon Duff** -- Created a NEAT-CPPN art tool, published in Rose-Hulman's *INK* magazine
-- **Allyn Loyd** -- Created an L-System crochet doily for BioAI "Awesomesauce"
+- **Allyn Loyd** -- Senior Thesis published in , 
 
-## Faculty Mentoring
-
-- Mentored visiting faculty Eliza Marcum on CSSE280
-- CSSE mentor to Ian Ludden (2023--2024)
-- Onboarded ~5 instructors for CSSE220
 
 ## Undergraduate Research at Indiana University
 
 Before Rose-Hulman, I mentored undergraduate researchers at IU for 6 semesters through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing Program, working with 9 students. At least 2 mentees went on to graduate school.
 
 ## Big Brothers Big Sisters
 
-From 2013 to 2019, I served as a "Big" through Big Brothers Big Sisters in Bloomington, Indiana. My mentee Trevor went through an incredibly difficult period---both of his parents were arrested---and I supported him through that crisis, eventually helping him apply to and attend Vincennes University.
-
-I was honored to receive the **Indiana University Male Big of the Year Award** in 2019.
-
-## Academic Advising
+From 2013 to 2019, I served as a "Big" through Big Brothers Big Sisters in Bloomington, Indiana. I was honored to receive the **Indiana University Male Big of the Year Award** in 2019.
 
-I advise 14--22 students per year. I developed a comprehensive advising system that includes 4-year academic plans, summer and post-graduation tracking, and personal interest notes. This system has been adopted by 3+ new faculty members in the department.

_pages/mentoring.md

@@ -11,12 +11,11 @@ I'm an avid mover. Beyond ultimate frisbee (see [Coaching](/coaching/)), I enjoy
 
 I'm a board game enthusiast---my favorites include 4X, worker placement, engine building, cooperative, RPG, and strategy games. I also enjoy computer games (puzzle, RTS, RPG) and have programmed text-based games to teach Python.
 
-I've been experimenting with generative AI tools like DALL-E and ChatGPT.
-
 ## Reading & Podcasts
 
-I've read 38+ books spanning personal productivity, evolution and development, theory of mind and consciousness, leadership, and science fiction. Some favorites:
+I aim to read books spanning personal productivity, evolution and development, theory of mind and consciousness, leadership, and science fiction. Some favorites:
 
+- *What is Intelligence?* by Blaise Aguera y Arcas
 - *Antifragile* by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
 - *Sapiens* by Yuval Noah Harari
 - *I Am a Strange Loop* by Douglas Hofstadter
@@ -26,22 +25,8 @@ I've read 38+ books spanning personal productivity, evolution and development, t
 - *Drive* by Daniel Pink
 - *Diaspora* and *Permutation City* by Greg Egan
 
-Podcasts I follow: Lex Fridman (60+ episodes), Brain-Inspired (15+), and Optimal Living Daily (200+).
-
-## Service & Awards
+Podcasts I follow: Lex Fridman, Brain-Inspired, and Optimal Living Daily.
 
-### Service
-
-- **Chair, Rose-Hulman Diversity Council** (2020--2022): Led "Creating Inclusive Courses" initiative
-- **CSSE Diversity Committee Member** (2019--present)
-- **CSSE Academic Integrity Committee** (2024)
-- **Laxer International Travel Grant Committee** (2020--present)
-- **CSSE Placement Exam** primary contact (2023--present)
-- **GitHub for Education** organizer for RHIT (2020--present)
-- **Senior Project Client** for RoseData (2019--present) and Computational Experiment Pipeline (2021--present)
-- **CSSE Research Symposium** co-organizer with Robert Williamson (first ever, 2024)
-- **Conference Reviewer**: ALIFE 2021, 2023
-- **President, Timber Ridge HOA**, Bloomington, IN (2019--2021)
 
 ### Awards
 
@@ -52,19 +37,3 @@ Podcasts I follow: Lex Fridman (60+ episodes), Brain-Inspired (15+), and Optimal
 | Cognitive Science Supplemental Research Fellowship | 2015, 2017, 2018 |
 | Sarah D. Barder Fellowship, Johns Hopkins CTY | 2017 |
 | Associate Instructor of the Year, IU School of Informatics | 2016 |
-| Graduated summa cum laude, Goshen College | 2009 |
-| Maple Scholars Summer Research Program | 2008 |
-| SMART Grant (Federal Government, $4,000) | 2007, 2008 |
-| Presidential Leadership Award ($10,000, Goshen College) | 2004--2008 |
-| Gatorade Student Athlete Scholarship ($5,000, Tennis) | 2004 |
-| Valedictorian, Southmoreland High School | 2004 |
-
-### Professional Development
-
-- Completed CornellX "Teaching & Learning in the Diverse Classroom" (April 2023)
-- BioInformatics Reading Group with Robert Williamson (2019--2021)
-- Regular participant in IU Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems Lab meetings (2020--present)
-
-### Conferences Attended
-
-ALIFE (2014, 2018, 2020--2024), GECCO (2022, 2023), CUR (2019, 2021--2023), CSEE&T 2020, CogSci 2020, Sarah D. Barder Conference (2017, 2021, 2022), IEEE SSCI 2017

_pages/personal.md

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 ## EASY Lab
 
-The **Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at Yoder's Lab (EASY Lab)** is my undergraduate research group at Rose-Hulman. We investigate questions about evolution, development, learning, and adaptation using computational models. Students join through the Genetic Algorithm Research Project in CSSE220 or through direct recruitment, and they contribute as genuine co-authors on peer-reviewed publications.
+The **Evolutionary and Adaptive SYstems Lab (EASY Lab)** is my undergraduate research group at Rose-Hulman. We investigate questions about evolution, development, learning, and adaptation using computational models. Students join through the Genetic Algorithm Research Project in CSSE220 or through direct recruitment, and they contribute as genuine co-authors on peer-reviewed publications.
 
-Since 2019, the lab has produced 13+ student co-authors and 10+ publications.
+Since 2021, the lab has produced 13+ student co-authors and 10+ publications.
 
 ## Research Interests
 
@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@ Students: Jacob Ashworth, Yujung Lee, Jackson Shen, Edward Kim, Zach Decker, Jul
 
 ### Evolvable Hardware
 
-*2018--2024* -- In collaboration with Derek Whitley (IU), we evolve analog circuits using FPGAs through intrinsic evolution. Published in ALIFE 2021 and invited to the *Artificial Life* journal.
+*2018--present* -- In collaboration with Derek Whitley (IU), we evolve analog circuits using FPGAs through intrinsic evolution. Published in ALIFE 2021 and invited to the *Artificial Life* journal.
 
 Project website: [evolvablehardware.org](https://evolvablehardware.org/)
 
-Students: Nicklas Carpenter, Allyn Loyd, Daniel Gaull, Logan Manthey (grew to 7 students)
+Students: Nicklas Carpenter, Allyn Loyd, Daniel Gaull, Logan Manthey, ________
 
 ### Biologically Plausible Reinforcement Learning with CTRNNs
 
@@ -48,40 +48,6 @@ Student Mingyang Cai demonstrated that quality-diversity approaches provide robu
 ### Education Research
 
 - **Exam wrappers**: Analyzed ~1,000 student exam scores (IEEE CSEE&T 2020, with Steve Chenoweth)
-- **Incentive points system**: Submitted to SIGCSE 2025 (with Aaron Wilkin, Mitchel Daniel)
+- **Incentive points system**: Published in SIGCSE 2025 (with Aaron Wilkin, Mitchel Daniel)
 
-## Publications
 
-### Tenure-Track Publications (Rose-Hulman)
-
-| Year | Title | Venue |
-|------|-------|-------|
-| 2024 | "Evolved Developmental ANNs for Multitasking..." (Zhang, Yoder) | ALIFE 2024 + *Artificial Life* journal |
-| 2024 | "A Computational Model of Developmental Exaptations" (Renner, Marois, Fiorito, Ashworth, Yoder) | ALIFE 2024 |
-| 2023 | "Modeling Evolutionary Development with Indirect Encodings on Dynamic NK FL" (Ashworth, Fiorito, Yoder) | ALIFE 2023 |
-| 2022 | "Reinforcement Learning for CPG in Dynamical RNNs" (Yoder, Anderson, Wang, Izquierdo) | *Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience* |
-| 2022 | "Biology Inspired Growth in Meta-Learning" (LaKemper, Wang, Yoder) | GECCO 2022 LBA |
-| 2022 | "Intrinsic Evolution of Analog Circuits Using FPGAs" (Whitley, Yoder, Carpenter) | *Artificial Life* journal (invited) |
-| 2022 | "Evolution of Developmental Strategies in NK Fitness Landscapes" (Ashworth, Lee, Shen, Kim, Decker, Yoder) | ALIFE 2022 |
-| 2021 | "Resurrecting FPGA Intrinsic Analog Evolvable Hardware" (Whitley, Yoder, Carpenter) | ALIFE 2021 |
-| 2020 | "Reflection for Recovery: Exam Wrappers..." (Yoder, Chenoweth) | CSEE&T 2020 (~37% accept) |
-
-### Pre-RHIT Publications
-
-| Year | Title | Venue |
-|------|-------|-------|
-| 2018 | "Behavioral Stability in the Face of Neuromodulation..." (Yoder, Izquierdo) | ALIFE 2018 |
-| 2017 | "Evolving Neuromodulator Architectures on Non-Associative Learning Tasks" (Yoder) | IEEE SSCI 2017 |
-| 2014 | "Evaluating Topological Models of Neuromodulation in Polyworld" (Yoder, Yaeger) | ALIFE 14 |
-
-### In Progress
-
-- "TIPS for Students!..." (Wilkin, Yoder, Daniel) -- submitted to SIGCSE 2025
-- "Bitstream Evolution: Open-Source FPGA Intrinsic EHW Toolkit" (Loyd, Gaull, Manthey, Carpenter, Whitley, Yoder) -- in preparation
-
-## Key Collaborators
-
-- **Eduardo Izquierdo** -- Indiana University (Computational Neuroethology Lab)
-- **Derek Whitley** -- Indiana University (Evolvable Hardware)
-- **Robert Williamson** -- RHIT Biology (Artificial Life, BioInformatics reading group)
-- **Aaron Wilkin, Steve Chenoweth, Mitchel Daniel** -- RHIT CSSE (Education Research)