# Csinva site (Static site themes)

> Csinva site is a free, open-source static site theme built with Jekyll. Slides, paper notes, class notes, blog posts, and research on ML, statistics, and AI. It has 622 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license. A live demo is linked from this page.

Hi I'm Chandan, a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research working on interpretable machine learning. I've been compulsively taking / improving my notes since my PhD at UC Berkeley and share them on this website. Hope they're helpful:)

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/csinva/csinva.github.io |
| Built with | Jekyll |
| Live demo | https://csinva.io |
| GitHub template repository | no |
| GitHub stars | 622 |
| License | MIT |
| Language | HTML |
| Official | no |
| Category | Static site themes |
| Latest release | none |
| Last commit | Oct 6, 2026 |

## Get started

### Copy with degit

```sh
npx degit csinva/csinva.github.io my-site
cd my-site
bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve
```

### Or clone with git

```sh
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/csinva/csinva.github.io.git my-site
```

Commercial use depends on the MIT license. Sources: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managing-repositories/creating-a-repository-from-a-template, https://github.com/Rich-Harris/degit

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