Aale Luusua

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Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2024	J	`jnl`	Correction: Urban AI: understanding the emerging role of artificial intelligence in smart cities. AI Soc. Aale Luusua, Johanna Ylipulli, Marcus Foth, Alessandro Aurigi
2024	—	`conf`	Metaphoric Spaces in Virtual Reality Design: From Simulation to Participatory Functionalism as a Design Approach. MindTrek Johanna Ylipulli, Aale Luusua, Matti Pouke
2023	—	`conf`	Bridging Distances for Global Participation: Conducting and Theorizing Participatory Design and Research in Hybrid Contexts: Conducting and Theorizing Participatory Design and Research in Hybrid Contexts. CHI Extended Abstracts Aale Luusua, Johanna Ylipulli, Dani Kalarikalayil Raju, Emilia Rönkkö
2023	J	`jnl`	Katherine Crawford: Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. AI Soc. Aale Luusua
2023	J	`jnl`	Urban AI: understanding the emerging role of artificial intelligence in smart cities. AI Soc. Aale Luusua, Johanna Ylipulli, Marcus Foth, Alessandro Aurigi
2021	—	`conf`	In Search of the Alternative Future: Developing Participatory Digital Citizenship to Address the Crisis of Democracy. CHI Extended Abstracts Johanna Ylipulli, Aale Luusua
2021	—	`conf`	Nordic Cities Meet Artificial Intelligence: City Officials' Views on Artificial Intelligence and Citizen Data in Finland. C&T Aale Luusua, Johanna Ylipulli
2020	A	`conf`	Artificial Intelligence and Risk in Design. Conference on Designing Interactive Systems Aale Luusua, Johanna Ylipulli
2020	J	`jnl`	Smart cities with a Nordic twist? Public sector digitalization in Finnish data-rich cities. Telematics Informatics Johanna Ylipulli, Aale Luusua
2020	A	`conf`	Urban AI: Formulating an Agenda for the Interdisciplinary Research of Artificial Intelligence in Cities. Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (Companion Volume) Aale Luusua, Johanna Ylipulli
2019	—	`conf`	Meso-Level Strategies for Design Participation and Education: Libraries as networked learning spaces. FabLearn Europe Aale Luusua, Johanna Ylipulli, Matti Pouke
2019	—	`conf`	Without libraries what have we?: Public libraries as nodes for technological empowerment in the era of smart cities, AI and big data. C&T Johanna Ylipulli, Aale Luusua

Nicolò Altamura is a security engineer and computer science researcher specializing in software protection, reverse engineering, program analysis, and binary deobfuscation. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Verona, graduating with honors, and works at emproof, focusing on software protection and the challenges of analyzing and understanding compiled software.

His research explores the relationship between program analysis and code obfuscation, with particular emphasis on how software transformations affect the ability of automated tools to recover program behavior. His interests span static analysis, binary analysis, decompilation, reverse engineering, and techniques for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code.

In 2025, he co-authored Assessing the Effectiveness of the Tigress Obfuscator Against MOPSA and BinaryNinja, published at CheckMATE. The paper evaluates the effectiveness of obfuscation techniques and their impact on source-level static analysis and binary-level decompilation.

Beyond academic research, Nicolò develops and contributes to tools for reverse engineering and software analysis. His projects include obfuscation_analysis, a Binary Ninja plugin for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code; Pocket, an obfuscator for mixed Boolean-arithmetic expressions; and ptxNinja, a tool for reverse engineering NVIDIA GPU code represented in the PTX virtual instruction set.

His research also extends to binary datasets and software evolution. In 2026, he co-authored ASSEMBLAGE-DEEPHISTORY: A Cross-Build Binary Dataset with Temporal Coverage, a research work addressing the availability of binary data across multiple software builds and points in time, supporting research into binary analysis and changes between program versions.

Across his research, engineering work, and open-source contributions, Nicolò focuses on advancing the understanding, analysis, and protection of software against increasingly sophisticated obfuscation and reverse-engineering challenges.

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