Contact

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	email	projects
academic	abandali@uwaterloo.ca	git.uwaterloo.ca/abandali
personal	amin@shemshak.org	- shemshak - \| - sourcehut -
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/libre +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 about topics or issues I care about:

- 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)

- You may wish to view my academic curriculum vitae. -

The notes are also available via Atom +and RSS feeds.

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. -

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