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+- date: 23 September 2024
+  headline: Aditay has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations!
+
 - date: 1 July 2024
   headline: Aditay's work on efficient self-supervised learning is accepted in ECCV'24. Congratulations!