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4 <section id="intro">
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&nbsp;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>
13
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>
17
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>
36 </section>
37
38 <section id="papers">
39 <h2>Papers</h2>
40 <dl>
41 <dt>A Comparison of the Declarative Modelling Languages B, DASH, and
42 TLA<sup>+</sup>
43 <small>
44 [ <a href="papers/modre2018-declarative.pdf">pdf</a>
45 | <a href="papers/modre2018-declarative.bib">bib</a>
46 ]
47 </small>
48 </dt>
49 <dd>
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 &copy; 2018 IEEE. All Rights Reserved. Sadly.
55 </dd>
56 </dl>
57 </section>
58
59 <section id="talks">
60 <h2>Talks</h2>
61 <dl>
62 <dt>The Magic of Specifications and Type Systems
63 <small>
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>
70 ]
71 </small>
72 </dt>
73 <dd>
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>
77 </dd>
78 </dl>
79 </section>
80
81 <section id="projects">
82 <h2>Projects</h2>
83 <p>Below are a number of free software projects I have worked on:</p>
84 <dl>
85 <dt><a href="//git.bandali.eu.org/george-mode">george-mode</a></dt>
86 <dd>Emacs major mode for editing George files</dd>
87
88 <dt><a href="//git.bandali.eu.org/alloy-catalyst">alloy-catalyst</a></dt>
89 <dd>Framework for performance analysis of Alloy models</dd>
90
91 <dt><a href="//github.com/unitb/unitb-web">unitb-web</a></dt>
92 <dd>Web interface for Unit-B</dd>
93
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>
96 </dl>
97 </section>
98
99 <section id="notes">
100 <h2>Notes</h2>
101 <p>Here are notes about a variety of topics and issues I care
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112 <table class="post-list">
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114 <tr>
115 <td><a href="computing">How I do my Computing</a></td>
116 <td><small>September 14, 2019</small></td>
117 </tr>
118
119 <tr>
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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