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- 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>.
- 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>.
- The main goal of my research is improving
- <strong>software and systems reliability</strong>
- through application of <em>formal methods</em>.
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- My research at WatForm focuses on formal logic, model
- checking, and verification. I’m also interested in
- programming languages, theorem provers, and their type
- systems. You may wish to view my
- academic <a href="bandali-cv.html">curriculum vitae</a>.
- </p>
+<p>I am a
+<a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free/libre
+software</a> activist and <a href="mmath/">computing scientist</a>.
+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>.
+I also wear a few other hats around GNU, including helping run the
+<a href="https://savannah.gnu.org">Savannah forge</a> for GNU and
+non-GNU software as a Savannah hacker, and serving as an assistant
+GNUisance.</p>
- <p class="notice">
- <strong>SE 212 students:</strong>
- see <a href="se212-f19/">here</a> for slides and other
- material from the tutorials.
- </p>
+<h2 id="notes">notes</h2>
+<p>Here are notes about topics or issues I care about:</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">Elisp</a>.
- I’m a <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">Free Software</a> activist
- and FSF <a href="https://www.fsf.org/associate/">supporter</a>, and a GNU maintainer
- and <a href="https://www.gnu.org/people/webmeisters.html#bandali">webmaster</a>.
- I co-host the <a href="https://emacsel.com">Emacs.el</a> podcast with
- <a href="https://www.pygopar.com">Daniel Gopar</a>, and
- organize <a href="https://emacsconf.org">EmacsConf</a> with
- help from many wonderful people.
+<ul>
+<li><a href="2021/03/20/libreplanet-2021.html">LibrePlanet 2021: Jami
+and how it empowers users</a> <small>(March 20, 2021)</small></li>
+<li><a href="2020/12/18/fsf-internship-beyond.html">My internship with
+the FSF tech team and beyond</a>
+<small>(December 18, 2020)</small></li>
+<li><a href="2020/05/29/fsf-internship-intro.html">Internship with the
+FSF tech team</a> <small>(May 29, 2020)</small></li>
+<li><a href="computing.html">How I do my Computing</a>
+<small>(September 14, 2019)</small></li>
+</ul>
- I am also a member of the Systems Committee for the
- <a href="https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca">Computer Science Club
- of the University of Waterloo</a>.
- </p>
+<p>The notes are also available via <a href="notes.atom">Atom</a>
+and <a href="notes.rss">RSS</a> feeds.</p>
- <p>
- See my <a href="contact.html">contact</a> page for how to
- best reach me.
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- </section>
-
- <h3 id="papers">Papers</h3>
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- <dt>
- A Comparison of the Declarative Modelling Languages B,
- Dash, and TLA<sup>+</sup>
- <span class="plinks">
- [
- <a href="papers/modre2018-declarative.pdf">pdf</a>
- |
- <a href="papers/modre2018-declarative.bib">bib</a>
- ]
- </span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- Ali Abbassi,
- <a href="https://bandali.eu.org">Amin Bandali</a>,
- <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/">Nancy A. Day</a>,
- and 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>
-
- <h3 id="talks">Talks</h3>
- <dl>
- <dt>
- The Magic of Specifications and Type Systems
- <span class="plinks">
- [
- <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>
- ]
- </span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <a href="https://bandali.eu.org">Amin Bandali</a>,
- <a href="https://github.com/cipher1024">Simon Hudon</a>,
- <a href="http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~jonathan/">Jonathan Ostroff</a>
- </dd>
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-
- <h3>Projects</h3>
- <p>
- Below are a number of free software projects I have worked on:
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- <dt><a href="https://git.sr.ht/~bandali/george-mode">george-mode</a></dt>
- <dd>Emacs major mode for editing George files</dd>
-
- <dt><a href="https://git.uwaterloo.ca/bandali/alloy-catalyst">alloy-catalyst</a></dt>
- <dd>Framework for performance analysis of Alloy models</dd>
-
- <dt><a href="https://github.com/unitb/unitb-web">unitb-web</a></dt>
- <dd>Web interface for Unit-B</dd>
-
- <dt><a href="https://github.com/unitb/tex2png-hs">tex2png-hs</a></dt>
- <dd>Library and CLI for converting TeX and LaTeX to PNG images</dd>
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