Aashaka Desai

15 papers A* 4A 5Journal 4Unranked 2
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
ACM Trans. Access. Comput.
Aashaka Desai, Aaleyah Lewis, Sanika Moharana, Anne Spencer Ross, Jennifer Mankoff, Christina N. Harrington
2025 A conf
ASSETS
Margaret Ellen Seehorn, Claris Winston, Bo Liu, Gene S.-H. Kim, Emily White, Nupur Gorkar, Kate S. Glazko, Aashaka Desai, Jerry Cao, Megan Hofmann, Jennifer Mankoff
2025 A conf
ASSETS
Aashaka Desai, Jennifer Mankoff, Richard E. Ladner
2025 A* conf
CHI
Ben Kosa, Aashaka Desai, Alex X. Lu, Richard E. Ladner, Danielle Bragg
2025 — conf
EMNLP (Findings)
Aashaka Desai, Daniela Massiceti, Richard E. Ladner, Hal Daumé III, Danielle Bragg, Alex Xijie Lu
2025 A* conf
CHI
Aashaka Desai, Rahaf Alharbi, Stacy Hsueh, Richard E. Ladner, Jennifer Mankoff
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Aashaka Desai, Maartje de Meulder, Julie A. Hochgesang, Annemarie Kocab, Alex X. Lu
2023 A* conf
NeurIPS
Aashaka Desai, Lauren Berger, Fyodor Minakov, Nessa Milano, Chinmay Singh, Kriston Pumphrey, Richard E. Ladner, Hal Daumé III, Alex X. Lu, Naomi Caselli, Danielle Bragg
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Aashaka Desai, Lauren Berger, Fyodor O. Minakov, Vanessa Milan, Chinmay Singh, Kriston Pumphrey, Richard E. Ladner, Hal Daumé III, Alex X. Lu, Naomi Caselli, Danielle Bragg
2023 A conf
ASSETS
Kate S. Glazko, Momona Yamagami, Aashaka Desai, Kelly Avery Mack, Venkatesh Potluri, Xuhai Xu, Jennifer Mankoff
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Kate S. Glazko, Momona Yamagami, Aashaka Desai, Kelly Avery Mack, Venkatesh Potluri, Xuhai Xu, Jennifer Mankoff
2023 A conf
ASSETS
Kelly Avery Mack, Natasha A Sidik, Aashaka Desai, Emma J. McDonnell, Kunal Mehta, Christina Zhang, Jennifer Mankoff
2023 A* conf
CHI
Aashaka Desai, Jennifer Mankoff, Richard E. Ladner
2023 A conf
ASSETS
Christina N. Harrington, Aashaka Desai, Aaleyah Lewis, Sanika Moharana, Anne Spencer Ross, Jennifer Mankoff
2022 — conf
SCF
Margaret Ellen Seehorn, Gene S.-H. Kim, Aashaka Desai, Megan Hofmann, Jennifer Mankoff

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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