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  content="Amin Bandali is a graduate student at WatForm, the
        co-host of the Emacs.el podcast, a free software activist,
        and a volunteer webmaster for the GNU project."/>
<title>Amin Bandali</title>
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    <h2 id="contact">Contact</h2>
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          <th>email</th>
          <th>projects</th>
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          <td>academic</td>
          <td><a href="mailto:abandali@uwaterloo.ca">abandali@uwaterloo.ca</a></td>
          <td><a href="https://git.uwaterloo.ca/abandali">git.uwaterloo.ca/abandali</a></td>
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          <td>personal</td>
          <td><a href="mailto:amin@shemshak.org">amin@shemshak.org</a></td>
          <td><a href="https://git.shemshak.org/amin">git.shemshak.org/amin</a></td>
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          <td>gnu</td>
          <td><a href="mailto:mab@gnu.org">bandali@gnu.org</a>
          <td><a href="https://sv.gnu.org/u/bandali">sv.gnu.org/u/bandali</a></td>
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    <p>
      See <a href="contact">contact</a> for more, and <a href="gpg">gpg</a>
      for sending me encrypted mail.
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    <h2 id="research-interests">Research interests</h2>
    <p>
      The main goal of my research is improving
      <strong>software&nbsp;reliability</strong>
      through application of <em>formal methods</em>.
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    <p>
      My current research at <a href="https://watform.uwaterloo.ca">WatForm</a>
      focuses on formal logic, model checking, and verification.
      Specifically, I am working on various optimizations aiming to
      improve the analysis performance of the Alloy Analyzer on
      models.
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    <p>
      I am also interested in programming languages, type systems, and
      interactive theorem proving.
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    <p>
      You may wish to view my academic <a href="bandali-cv.pdf">curriculum vitae</a>.
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    <h2 id="publications">Publications</h2>
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        <strong>A Comparison of the Declarative Modelling
          Languages B, Dash, and TLA<sup>+</sup></strong>
        (<a href="papers/2018-AbBaDaSe-modre.pdf">pdf</a>,
        <a href="papers/2018-AbBaDaSe-modre.bib">bib</a>,
        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/MoDRE.2018.00008">doi</a>,
        <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/models/2018-modre">models</a>)
      </dt>
      <dd>
        Ali Abbassi, <strong>Amin Bandali</strong>, Nancy A. Day,
        and Jose Serna
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      <dd>
        <em>2018 IEEE 8th International Model-Driven Requirements
          Engineering Workshop (MoDRE)</em>
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    <h2 id="presentations">Presentations</h2>
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        <strong>The Magic of Specifications and Type Systems</strong>
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      <dd>
        <strong>Amin Bandali</strong>, Simon Hudon, Jonathan Ostroff
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      <dd><a href="presentations/cucsc-2017-slides.pdf">Slides</a>
        presented at
        <abbr title="Canadian Undergraduate Computer Science Conference">CUCSC 2017</abbr>,
        University of Toronto, Canada, June 15-17, 2017.
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      <dd>
        <a href="presentations/eecs4080-poster.pdf">Poster</a> presented at
        <abbr title="Lassonde Undergraduate Summer Student Research Conference">Lassonde USSR Conference</abbr>,
        York University, Toronto, Canada, August 15, 2017.
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    <h2 id="writings">Writings</h2>
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      <dt>Will be added soon.</dt>
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    <h2 id="other-interests">Other interests</h2>
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      On the side, I dabble in <a href="https://leanprover.github.io">Lean</a>
      and enjoy <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">hacking</a> on
      <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/elisp.html">Emacs Lisp</a>.
      I&rsquo;m also a <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html">free software</a>
      and <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html">copyleft</a>
      activist, a <a href="https://www.gnu.org/people/webmeisters.html#bandali">volunteer webmaster</a>
      for the GNU project, and a co-host of the <a href="https://emacsel.com">Emacs.el</a> podcast.
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