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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>. I am a
22GNU <a href="//www.gnu.org/people/#bandali">maintainer</a>,
23<a href="//www.gnu.org/people/webmeisters.html#bandali">webmaster</a>,
24and <a href="//savanna.gnu.org/maintenance/SavannahHacker/">Savannah
25hacker</a>. I am also a
26<a href="//www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a>
27activist, and an <a href="//www.fsf.org/associate/">associate
28member</a> of the <a href="///www.fsf.org">Free Software
29Foundation</a>. I'm the chief organizer of
30the <a href="//emacsconf.org">EmacsConf</a> conference, and the
31co-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
33the Systems Committee of the
34<a href="//csclub.uwaterloo.ca">Computer Science Club</a> of the
35University 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
42TLA<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>
50Ali 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
53Workshop (MoDRE)</em><br/>
54Copyright &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,
66University 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,
69York 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
102about.<!--<br/>
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111
112<table class="post-list">
113<tbody>
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>
122</tr>
123</tbody>
124</table>
125</section>
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