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- co-host of the Emacs.el podcast, a free software advocate,
- and a volunteer webmaster for the GNU project."/>
-<title>Amin Bandali</title>
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- <h2 id="contact">Contact</h2>
- <table class="btable">
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- <th></th>
- <th>academic</th>
- <th>personal</th>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>email</td>
- <td><a href="mailto:abandali@uwaterloo.ca">abandali@uwaterloo.ca</a></td>
- <td><a href="mailto:bandali@gnu.org">bandali@gnu.org</a>
- (<a href="gpg">gpg</a>)</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>git repos</td>
- <td><a href="https://git.uwaterloo.ca/abandali">git.uwaterloo.ca/abandali</a></td>
- <td><a href="https://git.sr.ht/~bandali">git.sr.ht/~bandali</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>other means</td>
- <td>see <a href="contact">contact</a> page</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
- </section>
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+<section id="intro">
+<p>Hi, I'm Amin. I am currently a graduate student at the
+<a href="//watform.uwaterloo.ca">Waterloo Formal Methods</a>
+group at the University of Waterloo, supervised by
+<a href="//cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/">Nancy Day</a>.
+The main goal of my research is
+improving <strong>software and systems reliability</strong>
+through application of
+<a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_methods">formal methods</a>.</p>
- <section>
- <h2 id="research-interests">Research interests</h2>
- <p>
- The main goal of my research is improving
- <strong>software reliability</strong>
- through application of <em>formal methods</em>.
- </p>
+<p>My research at WatForm focuses on formal logic, model checking, and
+verification. I am also interested in programming languages, proof
+assistants, and their type systems.</p>
- <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.
- </p>
+<p>On the side, I enjoy
+<a href="//stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">hacking</a> on
+<a href="//www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/elisp.html">elisp</a>
+and <a href="//www.gnu.org/software/guile/">guile</a>. I am a
+GNU <a href="//www.gnu.org/people/#bandali">maintainer</a>,
+<a href="//www.gnu.org/people/webmeisters.html#bandali">webmaster</a>,
+and <a href="//savanna.gnu.org/maintenance/SavannahHacker/">Savannah
+hacker</a>. I am also a
+<a href="//www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a>
+activist, and an <a href="//www.fsf.org/associate/">associate
+member</a> of the <a href="///www.fsf.org">Free Software
+Foundation</a>. I'm the chief organizer of
+the <a href="//emacsconf.org">EmacsConf</a> conference, and the
+co-host of the <a href="//emacsel.com">Emacs.el</a> podcast with
+<a href="//www.pygopar.com">Daniel Gopar</a>. I am also a member of
+the Systems Committee of the
+<a href="//csclub.uwaterloo.ca">Computer Science Club</a> of the
+University of Waterloo.</p>
+</section>
- <p>
- I am also interested in programming languages, type systems, and
- interactive theorem proving.
- </p>
+<section id="papers">
+<h2>Papers</h2>
+<dl>
+<dt>A Comparison of the Declarative Modelling Languages B, DASH, and
+TLA<sup>+</sup>
+<small>
+[ <a href="papers/modre2018-declarative.pdf">pdf</a>
+| <a href="papers/modre2018-declarative.bib">bib</a>
+]
+</small>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+Ali Abbassi, <a href="//bandali.eu.org">Amin Bandali</a>,
+<a href="//cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/">Nancy A. Day</a>, Jose Serna<br/>
+<em>2018 IEEE 8th International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering
+Workshop (MoDRE)</em><br/>
+Copyright © 2018 IEEE. All Rights Reserved. Sadly.
+</dd>
+</dl>
+</section>
- <p>
- 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’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>
- advocate, and a volunteer webmaster for the GNU project.
- </p>
+<section id="talks">
+<h2>Talks</h2>
+<dl>
+<dt>The Magic of Specifications and Type Systems
+<small>
+[ <a href="talks/cucsc-2017-slides.pdf"
+ title="presented at the Canadian Undergraduate Computer Science Conference 2017,
+University of Toronto, Canada, June 15–17, 2017">slides</a>
+| <a href="talks/eecs4080-poster.pdf"
+ title="presented at the Lassonde Undergraduate Summer Student Research Conference,
+York University, Toronto, Canada, August 15, 2017">poster</a>
+]
+</small>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<a href="//bandali.eu.org">Amin Bandali</a>,
+<a href="//github.com/cipher1024">Simon Hudon</a>,
+<a href="//www.cse.yorku.ca/~jonathan/">Jonathan S. Ostroff</a>
+</dd>
+</dl>
+</section>
- <p>
- You may wish to view my academic <a href="bandali-cv.pdf">curriculum vitae</a>.
- </p>
- </section>
+<section id="projects">
+<h2>Projects</h2>
+<p>Below are a number of free software projects I have worked on:</p>
+<dl>
+<dt><a href="//git.bandali.eu.org/george-mode">george-mode</a></dt>
+<dd>Emacs major mode for editing George files</dd>
- <section>
- <h2 id="publications">Publications</h2>
- <dl>
- <dt>
- <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
- </dd>
- <dd>
- <em>2018 IEEE 8th International Model-Driven Requirements
- Engineering Workshop (MoDRE)</em>
- </dd>
- </dl>
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- </section>
+<dt><a href="//git.bandali.eu.org/alloy-catalyst">alloy-catalyst</a></dt>
+<dd>Framework for performance analysis of Alloy models</dd>
- <section>
- <h2 id="presentations">Presentations</h2>
- <dl>
- <dt>
- <strong>The Magic of Specifications and Type
- Systems</strong>
- </dt>
- <dd><strong>Amin Bandali</strong>, Simon Hudon,
- Jonathan Ostroff
- </dd>
- <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.
- </dd>
- <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.</dd>
- </dl>
- </section>
+<dt><a href="//github.com/unitb/unitb-web">unitb-web</a></dt>
+<dd>Web interface for Unit-B</dd>
- <section>
- <h2 id="writings">Writings</h2>
- <dl>
- <dt>Will be added soon.</dt>
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+<dt><a href="//github.com/unitb/tex2png-hs">tex2png-hs</a></dt>
+<dd>Library and CLI for converting TeX and LaTeX to PNG images</dd>
+</dl>
+</section>
+
+<section id="notes">
+<h2>Notes</h2>
+<p>Here are notes about a variety of topics and issues I care
+about.<!--<br/>
+They're also available via
+<a href="notes.atom">
+<img class="feed-icon" src="/icon-12px.png"
+ alt="subscribe to atom feed">Atom</a>
+and
+<a href="notes.rss">
+<img class="feed-icon" src="/icon-12px.png"
+ alt="subscribe to rss feed">RSS</a> feeds.--></p>
+
+<table class="post-list">
+<tbody>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="computing">How I do my Computing</a></td>
+<td><small>September 14, 2019</small></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><a href="arch-macbook-air">Arch GNU/Linux on MacBook Air 2013</a></td>
+<td><small>November 1, 2016</small></td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</section>
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