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1<!--# set var="title" value="Amin Bandali's Personal Site" -->
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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>
7group at the University of Waterloo, supervised by
8<a href="//cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/">Nancy&nbsp;Day</a>.
9The main goal of my research is
10improving <strong>software and systems reliability</strong>
11through 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
15verification. I am also interested in programming languages, proof
16assistants, 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>
21and <a href="//www.gnu.org/software/guile/">guile</a>.
22I am a GNU <a href="//www.gnu.org/people/#bandali">maintainer</a> and
23<a href="//www.gnu.org/people/webmeisters.html#bandali">webmaster</a>,
24a <a href="//www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a>
25activist, and an <a href="//www.fsf.org/associate/">associate member</a>
26of the <a href="///www.fsf.org">Free Software Foundation</a>.
27I'm the co-host of the <a href="//emacsel.com">Emacs.el</a>
28podcast with <a href="//www.pygopar.com">Daniel Gopar</a>, and
29the chief organizer of the
30<a href="//emacsconf.org">EmacsConf</a> conference.
31I'm also a member of the Systems Committee of the
32<a href="//csclub.uwaterloo.ca">Computer Science Club</a> of
33the University of Waterloo.</p>
34</section>
35
36<section id="papers">
37<h2>Papers</h2>
38<dl>
39<dt>A Comparison of the Declarative Modelling Languages B, DASH, and
40TLA<sup>+</sup>
41<small>
42[ <a href="papers/modre2018-declarative.pdf">pdf</a>
43| <a href="papers/modre2018-declarative.bib">bib</a>
44]
45</small>
46</dt>
47<dd>
48Ali Abbassi, <a href="//bandali.eu.org">Amin Bandali</a>,
49<a href="//cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/">Nancy A. Day</a>, Jose Serna<br/>
50<em>2018 IEEE 8th International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering
51Workshop (MoDRE)</em><br/>
52Copyright © 2018 IEEE. All Rights Reserved. Sadly.
53</dd>
54</dl>
55</section>
56
57<section id="talks">
58<h2>Talks</h2>
59<dl>
60<dt>The Magic of Specifications and Type Systems
61<small>
62[ <a href="talks/cucsc-2017-slides.pdf"
63 title="presented at the Canadian Undergraduate Computer Science Conference 2017,
64University of Toronto, Canada, June 15–17, 2017">slides</a>
65| <a href="talks/eecs4080-poster.pdf"
66 title="presented at the Lassonde Undergraduate Summer Student Research Conference,
67York University, Toronto, Canada, August 15, 2017">poster</a>
68]
69</small>
70</dt>
71<dd>
72<a href="//bandali.eu.org">Amin Bandali</a>,
73<a href="//github.com/cipher1024">Simon Hudon</a>,
74<a href="//www.cse.yorku.ca/~jonathan/">Jonathan S. Ostroff</a>
75</dd>
76</dl>
77</section>
78
79<section id="projects">
80<h2>Projects</h2>
81<p>Below are a number of free software projects I have worked on:</p>
82<dl>
83<dt><a href="//git.bandali.eu.org/george-mode">george-mode</a></dt>
84<dd>Emacs major mode for editing George files</dd>
85
86<dt><a href="//git.bandali.eu.org/alloy-catalyst">alloy-catalyst</a></dt>
87<dd>Framework for performance analysis of Alloy models</dd>
88
89<dt><a href="//github.com/unitb/unitb-web">unitb-web</a></dt>
90<dd>Web interface for Unit-B</dd>
91
92<dt><a href="//github.com/unitb/tex2png-hs">tex2png-hs</a></dt>
93<dd>Library and CLI for converting TeX and LaTeX to PNG images</dd>
94</dl>
95</section>
96
97<section id="notes">
98<h2>Notes</h2>
99<p>Here are notes about a variety of topics and issues I care
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109
110<table class="post-list">
111<tbody>
112<tr>
113<td><a href="computing">How I do my Computing</a></td>
114<td><small>September 14, 2019</small></td>
115</tr>
116
117<tr>
118<td><a href="arch-macbook-air">Arch GNU/Linux on MacBook Air 2013</a></td>
119<td><small>November 1, 2016</small></td>
120</tr>
121</tbody>
122</table>
123</section>
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