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4 content="Amin Bandali is a graduate student at WatForm, the
5 co-host of the Emacs.el podcast, a free software activist,
6 and a volunteer webmaster for the GNU project."/>
7 <title>Amin Bandali</title>
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12 <h2 id="contact">Contact</h2>
13 <table class="btable">
14 <tbody>
15 <tr>
16 <th></th>
17 <th>email</th>
18 <th>projects</th>
19 </tr>
20 <tr>
21 <td>academic</td>
22 <td><a href="mailto:abandali@uwaterloo.ca">abandali@uwaterloo.ca</a></td>
23 <td><a href="https://git.uwaterloo.ca/abandali">git.uwaterloo.ca/abandali</a></td>
24 </tr>
25 <tr>
26 <td>personal</td>
27 <td><a href="mailto:amin@shemshak.org">amin@shemshak.org</a></td>
28 <td><a href="https://git.shemshak.org/amin">git.shemshak.org/amin</a></td>
29 </tr>
30 <tr>
31 <td>gnu</td>
32 <td><a href="mailto:mab@gnu.org">bandali@gnu.org</a>
33 <td><a href="https://sv.gnu.org/u/bandali">sv.gnu.org/u/bandali</a></td>
34 </tr>
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37 <p>
38 See <a href="contact">contact</a> for more, and <a href="gpg">gpg</a>
39 for sending me encrypted mail.
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43 <section>
44 <h2 id="research-interests">Research interests</h2>
45 <p>
46 The main goal of my research is improving
47 <strong>software&nbsp;reliability</strong>
48 through application of <em>formal methods</em>.
49 </p>
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51 <p>
52 My current research at <a href="https://watform.uwaterloo.ca">WatForm</a>
53 focuses on formal logic, model checking, and verification.
54 Specifically, I am working on various optimizations aiming to
55 improve the analysis performance of the Alloy Analyzer on
56 models.
57 </p>
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59 <p>
60 I am also interested in programming languages, type systems, and
61 interactive theorem proving.
62 </p>
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64 <p>
65 You may wish to view my academic <a href="bandali-cv.pdf">curriculum vitae</a>.
66 </p>
67 </section>
68
69 <section>
70 <h2 id="publications">Publications</h2>
71 <dl>
72 <dt>
73 <strong>A Comparison of the Declarative Modelling
74 Languages B, Dash, and TLA<sup>+</sup></strong>
75 (<a href="papers/2018-AbBaDaSe-modre.pdf">pdf</a>,
76 <a href="papers/2018-AbBaDaSe-modre.bib">bib</a>,
77 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/MoDRE.2018.00008">doi</a>,
78 <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/models/2018-modre">models</a>)
79 </dt>
80 <dd>
81 Ali Abbassi, <strong>Amin Bandali</strong>, Nancy A. Day,
82 and Jose Serna
83 </dd>
84 <dd>
85 <em>2018 IEEE 8th International Model-Driven Requirements
86 Engineering Workshop (MoDRE)</em>
87 </dd>
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90 </section>
91
92 <section>
93 <h2 id="presentations">Presentations</h2>
94 <dl>
95 <dt>
96 <strong>The Magic of Specifications and Type Systems</strong>
97 </dt>
98 <dd>
99 <strong>Amin Bandali</strong>, Simon Hudon, Jonathan Ostroff
100 </dd>
101 <dd><a href="presentations/cucsc-2017-slides.pdf">Slides</a>
102 presented at
103 <abbr title="Canadian Undergraduate Computer Science Conference">CUCSC 2017</abbr>,
104 University of Toronto, Canada, June 15-17, 2017.
105 </dd>
106 <dd>
107 <a href="presentations/eecs4080-poster.pdf">Poster</a> presented at
108 <abbr title="Lassonde Undergraduate Summer Student Research Conference">Lassonde USSR Conference</abbr>,
109 York University, Toronto, Canada, August 15, 2017.
110 </dd>
111 </dl>
112 </section>
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114 <section>
115 <h2 id="writings">Writings</h2>
116 <dl>
117 <dt>Will be added soon.</dt>
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120 </section>
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122 <section>
123 <h2 id="other-interests">Other interests</h2>
124 <p>
125 On the side, I dabble in <a href="https://leanprover.github.io">Lean</a>
126 and enjoy <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">hacking</a> on
127 <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/elisp.html">Emacs Lisp</a>.
128 I&rsquo;m also a <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html">free software</a>
129 and <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html">copyleft</a>
130 activist, a <a href="https://www.gnu.org/people/webmeisters.html#bandali">volunteer webmaster</a>
131 for the GNU project, and a co-host of the <a href="https://emacsel.com">Emacs.el</a> podcast.
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