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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">
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 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>
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