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- <h1 id="title">bandali</h1>
- <h2 id="subtitle">my corner of the interwebs</h2>
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- <p>
- Hi, I’m
- <a href="images/bandali-with-rms.jpg"
- title="photo of bandali with rms wearing a “pay cash don’t be tracked” pin">Amin Bandali</a>,
- often just <code>bandali</code> around the web.
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- <h3>Academia</h3>
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- <li><a href="cv">CV</a></li>
- <li><a href="publications">Publications</a></li>
- <li><a href="research">Research interests</a></li>
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- <p>
- I’m a graduate student at <a href="https://watform.uwaterloo.ca">WatForm</a>
- at University of Waterloo, supervised by
- <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/">Dr. Nancy Day</a>.
- My research at WatForm focuses on formal logic, model
- checking, and verification. See my research interests link
- above for more details.
- </p>
- </section>
- <h3>Personal</h3>
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- <li><a href="blog">Blog</a></li>
- <li><a href="now">Now</a></li>
- <li><a href="computing">Computing</a></li>
- <li><a href="contact">Contact</a></li>
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- I’m a <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">Free Software</a>
- and <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.html">Copyleft</a> activist,
- an <a href="https://www.fsf.org/associate/">FSF associate member</a>,
- and a <a href="https://www.gnu.org/people/webmeisters.html#bandali">GNU webmaster</a>
- and volunteer. I co-host the <a href="https://emacsel.com">Emacs.el</a> podcast,
- and I’m organizing <a href="https://emacsconf.org/2019/">EmacsConf 2019</a> this fall.
- </p>
- <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>.
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+<h1>Amin Bandali's Personal Site</h1>
+</header>
+<nav>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="/#papers">Publications</a></li>
+<li><a href="/#projects">Projects</a></li>
+<li><a href="/#notes">Notes</a></li>
+<li><a href="/cv" title="curriculum vitae">CV</a></li>
+<li><a href="/contact">Contact</a></li>
+</ul>
+</nav>
+<main>
+<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>
+
+<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>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> and
+<a href="//www.gnu.org/people/webmeisters.html#bandali">webmaster</a>,
+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 co-host of the <a href="//emacsel.com">Emacs.el</a>
+podcast with <a href="//www.pygopar.com">Daniel Gopar</a>, and
+the chief organizer of the
+<a href="//emacsconf.org">EmacsConf</a> conference.
+I'm 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>
+
+<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>
+
+<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>
+
+<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>
+
+<dt><a href="//git.bandali.eu.org/alloy-catalyst">alloy-catalyst</a></dt>
+<dd>Framework for performance analysis of Alloy models</dd>
+
+<dt><a href="//github.com/unitb/unitb-web">unitb-web</a></dt>
+<dd>Web interface for Unit-B</dd>
+
+<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>
+</main>
+<footer>
+<p>Copyright © 2016–2019 Amin Bandali. See the
+<a href="/license">license conditions</a>. Please copy and share.</p>
+</footer>
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