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5 <p>Hi, I'm Amin. I am currently a graduate student at the
6 <a href=
"//watform.uwaterloo.ca">Waterloo Formal Methods
</a>
7 group at the University of Waterloo, supervised by
8 <a href=
"//cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/">Nancy
Day
</a>.
9 The main goal of my research is
10 improving
<strong>software and systems reliability
</strong>
11 through application of
12 <a href=
"//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_methods">formal methods
</a>.
</p>
14 <p>My research at WatForm focuses on formal logic, model checking, and
15 verification. I am also interested in programming languages, proof
16 assistants, and their type systems.
</p>
18 <p>On the side, I enjoy
19 <a href=
"//stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">hacking
</a> on
20 <a href=
"//www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/elisp.html">elisp
</a>
21 and
<a href=
"//www.gnu.org/software/guile/">guile
</a>. I am a
22 GNU
<a href=
"//www.gnu.org/people/#bandali">maintainer
</a>,
23 <a href=
"//www.gnu.org/people/webmeisters.html#bandali">webmaster
</a>,
24 and
<a href=
"//savanna.gnu.org/maintenance/SavannahHacker/">Savannah
25 hacker
</a>. I am also a
26 <a href=
"//www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software
</a>
27 activist, and an
<a href=
"//www.fsf.org/associate/">associate
28 member
</a> of the
<a href=
"///www.fsf.org">Free Software
29 Foundation
</a>. I'm the chief organizer of
30 the
<a href=
"//emacsconf.org">EmacsConf
</a> conference, and the
31 co-host of the
<a href=
"//emacsel.com">Emacs.el
</a> podcast with
32 <a href=
"//www.pygopar.com">Daniel Gopar
</a>. I am also a member of
33 the Systems Committee of the
34 <a href=
"//csclub.uwaterloo.ca">Computer Science Club
</a> of the
35 University of Waterloo.
</p>
41 <dt>A Comparison of the Declarative Modelling Languages B, DASH, and
44 [
<a href=
"papers/modre2018-declarative.pdf">pdf
</a>
45 |
<a href=
"papers/modre2018-declarative.bib">bib
</a>
50 Ali Abbassi,
<a href=
"//bandali.eu.org">Amin Bandali
</a>,
51 <a href=
"//cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/">Nancy A. Day
</a>, Jose Serna
<br/>
52 <em>2018 IEEE
8th International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering
53 Workshop (MoDRE)
</em><br/>
54 Copyright
© 2018 IEEE. All Rights Reserved. Sadly.
62 <dt>The Magic of Specifications and Type Systems
64 [
<a href=
"talks/cucsc-2017-slides.pdf"
65 title=
"presented at the Canadian Undergraduate Computer Science Conference 2017,
66 University of Toronto, Canada, June 15–17, 2017">slides
</a>
67 |
<a href=
"talks/eecs4080-poster.pdf"
68 title=
"presented at the Lassonde Undergraduate Summer Student Research Conference,
69 York University, Toronto, Canada, August 15, 2017">poster
</a>
74 <a href=
"//bandali.eu.org">Amin Bandali
</a>,
75 <a href=
"//github.com/cipher1024">Simon Hudon
</a>,
76 <a href=
"//www.cse.yorku.ca/~jonathan/">Jonathan S. Ostroff
</a>
81 <section id=
"projects">
83 <p>Below are a number of free software projects I have worked on:
</p>
85 <dt><a href=
"//git.bandali.eu.org/george-mode">george-mode
</a></dt>
86 <dd>Emacs major mode for editing George files
</dd>
88 <dt><a href=
"//git.bandali.eu.org/alloy-catalyst">alloy-catalyst
</a></dt>
89 <dd>Framework for performance analysis of Alloy models
</dd>
91 <dt><a href=
"//github.com/unitb/unitb-web">unitb-web
</a></dt>
92 <dd>Web interface for Unit-B
</dd>
94 <dt><a href=
"//github.com/unitb/tex2png-hs">tex2png-hs
</a></dt>
95 <dd>Library and CLI for converting TeX and LaTeX to PNG images
</dd>
101 <p>Here are notes about a variety of topics and issues I care
103 They're also available via
104 <a href="notes.atom">
105 <img class="feed-icon" src="/icon-12px.png"
106 alt="subscribe to atom feed">Atom</a>
109 <img class="feed-icon" src="/icon-12px.png"
110 alt="subscribe to rss feed">RSS</a> feeds.--></p>
112 <table class=
"post-list">
115 <td><a href=
"computing">How I do my Computing
</a></td>
116 <td><small>September
14,
2019</small></td>
120 <td><a href=
"arch-macbook-air">Arch GNU/Linux on MacBook Air
2013</a></td>
121 <td><small>November
1,
2016</small></td>
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