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- <th>email</th>
- <th>projects</th>
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- <td>academic</td>
- <td><a href="mailto:abandali@uwaterloo.ca">abandali@uwaterloo.ca</a></td>
- <td><a href="https://git.uwaterloo.ca/abandali">git.uwaterloo.ca/abandali</a></td>
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- <td>personal</td>
- <td><a href="mailto:amin@shemshak.org">amin@shemshak.org</a></td>
- <td><a href="https://git.shemshak.org/amin">git.shemshak.org/amin</a></td>
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- <td>gnu</td>
- <td><a href="mailto:mab@gnu.org">mab@gnu.org</a>
- <td><a href="https://sv.gnu.org/u/bandali">sv.gnu.org/u/bandali</a></td>
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- See <a href="contact">contact</a> for more, and <a href="gpg">gpg</a>
- for sending me encrypted mail.
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- <h2 id="research-interests">Research interests</h2>
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- The main goal of my research is improving
- <strong>software reliability</strong>
- through application of <em>formal methods</em>.
- </p>
+<p>I am a
+<a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free/libre
+software</a> activist and a computing scientist. I'm a GNU maintainer
+of <a href="https://jami.net">Jami</a>
+and <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/">GNU IceCat</a>,
+and wear <a href="https://www.gnu.org/people/people.html#bandali">a
+few other hats</a> around GNU as well: Savannah hacker/admin,
+assistant GNUisance, GNU webmaster, etc.</p>
- <p>
- My current research at <a href="https://watform.uwaterloo.ca">WatForm</a>
- focuses on formal logic, model checking, and verification.
- Specifically, I am working on various optimizations aiming to
- improve the analysis performance of the Alloy Analyzer on
- models.
- </p>
+<h2 id="notes">notes</h2>
+<p>Here are notes about topics or issues I care about:</p>
- <p>
- I am also interested in programming languages, type systems, and
- interactive theorem proving.
- </p>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="fsf-internship/beyond.html">My internship with
+the FSF tech team and beyond</a>
+<small>(18 December 2020)</small></li>
+<li><a href="fsf-internship/intro.html">Internship with the
+FSF tech team</a> <small>(29 May 2020)</small></li>
+<li><a href="computing.html">How I do my computing</a>
+<small>(14 September 2019)</small></li>
+</ul>
- <p>
- You may wish to view my academic <a href="bandali-cv.pdf">curriculum vitae</a>.
- </p>
- </section>
+<p>The notes are also available via <a href="notes.atom">Atom</a>
+and <a href="notes.rss">RSS</a> feeds.</p>
- <section>
- <h2 id="publications">Publications</h2>
- <dl>
- <dt>
- <strong>A Comparison of the Declarative Modelling
- Languages B, Dash, and TLA<sup>+</sup></strong>
- (<a href="papers/2018-AbBaDaSe-modre.pdf">pdf</a>,
- <a href="papers/2018-AbBaDaSe-modre.bib">bib</a>,
- <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/MoDRE.2018.00008">doi</a>,
- <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/models/2018-modre">models</a>)
- </dt>
- <dd>
- Ali Abbassi, <strong>Amin Bandali</strong>, Nancy A. Day,
- and Jose Serna
- </dd>
- <dd>
- <em>2018 IEEE 8th International Model-Driven Requirements
- Engineering Workshop (MoDRE)</em>
- </dd>
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+<h2 id="talks">talks</h2>
+<p>Some of the talks and presentations I've given over the years:</p>
- <section>
- <h2 id="presentations">Presentations</h2>
- <dl>
- <dt>
- <strong>The Magic of Specifications and Type Systems</strong>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <strong>Amin Bandali</strong>, Simon Hudon, Jonathan Ostroff
- </dd>
- <dd><a href="presentations/cucsc-2017-slides.pdf">Slides</a>
- presented at
- <abbr title="Canadian Undergraduate Computer Science Conference">CUCSC 2017</abbr>,
- University of Toronto, Canada, June 15-17, 2017.
- </dd>
- <dd>
- <a href="presentations/eecs4080-poster.pdf">Poster</a> presented at
- <abbr title="Lassonde Undergraduate Summer Student Research Conference">Lassonde USSR Conference</abbr>,
- York University, Toronto, Canada, August 15, 2017.
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </section>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="talks/libreplanet-2021-jami.html">LibrePlanet 2021: Jami
+and how it empowers users</a> <small>(20 March 2021)</small></li>
+<li><a href="theses/mmath.html#presentation">A Comprehensive Study of
+Declarative Modelling Languages</a> <small>(30 June 2020)</small></li>
+</ul>
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- <h2 id="writings">Writings</h2>
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- <dt>Will be added soon.</dt>
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- <h2 id="other-interests">Other interests</h2>
- <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>.
- I’m also a <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html">free software</a>
- and <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html">copyleft</a>
- activist, a <a href="https://www.gnu.org/people/webmeisters.html#bandali">volunteer webmaster</a>
- for the GNU project, and a co-host of the <a href="https://emacsel.com">Emacs.el</a> podcast.
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