Contact

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	email	projects
academic	abandali@uwaterloo.ca	git.uwaterloo.ca/abandali
personal	amin@shemshak.org	git.shemshak.org/amin
gnu	mab@gnu.org -	sv.gnu.org/u/bandali

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Research interests

- The main goal of my research is improving - software reliability - through application of formal methods. -

I am a free +software activist and computing +scientist. I'm a GNU maintainer +of Jami +and GNU IceCat. +I also wear a few other hats around GNU, including helping run the +Savannah forge for GNU and non-GNU software as a Savannah hacker, and +serving as an assistant GNUisance.

- My current research at WatForm - 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. -

notes

Here are notes and writings about topics or issues I care about, +which you can also read via Atom +or RSS feeds.

- I am also interested in programming languages, type systems, and - interactive theorem proving. -

LibrePlanet 2021: Jami and how it +empowers users (March 20, 2021)
My internship with the FSF +tech team and beyond (December 18, 2020)
Internship with the FSF tech +team (May 29, 2020)
How I do my Computing +(September 14, 2019)

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Publications

- A Comparison of the Declarative Modelling - Languages B, Dash, and TLA⁺ - (pdf, - bib, - doi, - models) -: - Ali Abbassi, Amin Bandali, Nancy A. Day, - and Jose Serna -; - 2018 IEEE 8th International Model-Driven Requirements - Engineering Workshop (MoDRE) -

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Presentations

- The Magic of Specifications and Type Systems -: - Amin Bandali, Simon Hudon, Jonathan Ostroff -; Slides - presented at - CUCSC 2017, - University of Toronto, Canada, June 15-17, 2017. -; - Poster presented at - Lassonde USSR Conference, - York University, Toronto, Canada, August 15, 2017. -

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Writings

Will be added soon.

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Other interests

- On the side, I dabble in Lean - and enjoy hacking on - Emacs Lisp. - I’m also a free software - and copyleft - activist, a volunteer webmaster - for the GNU project, and a co-host of the Emacs.el podcast. -