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+---
+title:
+type: landing
+sections:
+  - block: markdown
+    id: research
+    content:
+      text: |-
+        <br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
+    design:
+      columns: '2'
+      text_color_light: dark
+      background:
+        image:
+          filename: img/graphs.jpg # Name of image in `assets/media/`.
+          filters:
+            # Darken the image? Range 0-1 where 1 is transparent and 0 is opaque.
+            brightness: 0.9
+          size: contain
+          # Image focal point. Options include `left`, `center` (default), or `right`.
+          position: center
+          # Use a fun parallax-like fixed background effect on desktop? true/false
+          # parallax: true
+  - block: markdown
+    id: research
+    content:
+      title: About us
+      subtitle: "... and what we do"
+      text: |-
+          The __Learning And Signal Processing__ is a research lab led by Dr. {{% mention "laura-toni" %}} and is part of the [Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/electronic-electrical-engineering/ucl-electronic-and-electrical-engineering) at the University College London.
+
+          Our research activity focused on developing novel adaptive strategies for large-scale networks with applications including adaptive streaming strategies for virtual reality services, data-efficient multi-arm bandit problems for online recommendation systems, graph-based reinforcement learning for AI systems, and influence maximization over social networks. Our research is at the crossroad between multimedia processing, machine learning, and signal processing.
+
+          <p class="cta-btns">
+                <a href="https://github.com/lasp-ucl" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg mb-md-1">
+                <i class="fab fab-githubpr-1" aria-hidden="true"></i>Follows us on Github
+                </a>
+                <a href="https://twitter.com/ucl_lasp" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg mb-md-1">
+                <i class="fab fab-githubpr-1" aria-hidden="true"></i>Follows us on Twitter
+                </a>
+          </p>
+    design:
+      columns: '2'
+  - block: people
+    id: people
+    content:
+      title: People
+      user_groups:
+      - Principal Investigators
+      - Researchers
+      - Alumni
+    design:
+      show_interests: false
+      show_role: true
+      show_social: true
+  - block: collection
+    id: publications
+    content:
+      title: Recent Publications
+      text: |-
+        {{% callout note %}}
+        Quickly discover relevant content by [filtering publications](./publication/).
+        {{% /callout %}}
+      filters:
+        folders:
+          - publications
+        exclude_featured: true
+    design:
+      columns: '2'
+      view: citation
+  - block: contact
+    id: contact
+    content:
+      title: Contact
+      email: [email protected]
+      address:
+        street: Gower Street
+        city: London
+        region:
+        postcode: 'WC1E 7JE'
+        country: UK
+        country_code: UK
+      coordinates:
+        latitude: '51.52341496502994'
+        longitude: '-0.1324558153455622'
+      directions: Malet Place Engineering Building
+      office_hours:
+      appointment_url:
+      contact_links:
+    design:
+      columns: '2'
+---