Ben Amaba

13 papers Journal 9Unranked 4
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2023 J jnl
Computer
Mohamad Kassab, Ben Amaba, Edward S. Pound, Brian Fox
2022 — conf
ISSRE Workshops
Phil Laplante, Ben Amaba, Rick Kuhn
2022 J jnl
J. Comput. Inf. Sci. Eng.
Song Li, Mustafa Ozkan Yerebakan, Yue Luo, Ben Amaba, William Swope, Boyi Hu
2021 J jnl
Computer
Phil Laplante, Ben Amaba
2020 J jnl
IT Prof.
Chan Naseeb, Phillip A. Laplante, Ben Amaba
2020 — conf
SysCon
Sumit Kumar Bose, Ben Amaba, Stephen Lord
2019 J jnl
IT Prof.
Charla Stracener, Quentin Samelson, Joe Mackie, Mitsuko Ihaza, Phillip A. Laplante, Ben Amaba
2019 J jnl
IT Prof.
Phillip A. Laplante, Ben Amaba
2018 J jnl
IT Prof.
Phillip A. Laplante, Ben Amaba
2018 J jnl
IT Prof.
Jeff Daniels, Saman Sargolzaei, Arman Sargolzaei, Tareq Z. Ahram, Phillip A. Laplante, Ben Amaba
2013 — conf
HCI (14)
Tareq Z. Ahram, Waldemar Karwowski, Ben Amaba, Paul Fechtelkotter
2011 J jnl
Behav. Inf. Technol.
Tareq Z. Ahram, Waldemar Karwowski, Ben Amaba
2010 — conf
SoSE
Tareq Z. Ahram, Waldemar Karwowski, Ben Amaba

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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