Benjamin Akera

14 papers A* 2Journal 9Unranked 3

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	A*	`conf`	BATIS: Bayesian Approaches for Targeted Improvement of Species Distribution Models. AAAI Catherine Villeneuve, Benjamin Akera, Mélisande Teng, David Rolnick
2025	J	`jnl`	BATIS: Bayesian Approaches for Targeted Improvement of Species Distribution Models. CoRR Catherine Villeneuve, Benjamin Akera, Mélisande Teng, David Rolnick
2025	J	`jnl`	How much speech data is necessary for ASR in African languages? An evaluation of data scaling in Kinyarwanda and Kikuyu. CoRR Benjamin Akera, Evelyn Nafula, Patrick Walukagga, Gilbert Yiga, John A. Quinn, Ernest Mwebaze
2025	J	`jnl`	Sunflower: A New Approach To Expanding Coverage of African Languages in Large Language Models. CoRR Benjamin Akera, Evelyn Nafula Ouma, Gilbert Yiga, Patrick Walukagga, Phionah Natukunda, Trevor Saaka, Solomon Nsumba, Lilian Teddy Nabukeera, Joel Muhanguzi, Imran Sekalala, Nimpamya Janat Namara, Engineer Bainomugisha, Ernest Mwebaze, John A. Quinn
2023	J	`jnl`	Bird Distribution Modelling using Remote Sensing and Citizen Science data. CoRR Mélisande Teng, Amna Elmustafa, Benjamin Akera, Hugo Larochelle, David Rolnick
2023	—	`conf`	Multilingual Model and Data Resources for Text-To-Speech in Ugandan Languages. AfricaNLP Isaac Owomugisha, Benjamin Akera, Ernest Mwebaze, John A. Quinn
2023	J	`jnl`	SatBird: Bird Species Distribution Modeling with Remote Sensing and Citizen Science Data. CoRR Mélisande Teng, Amna Elmustafa, Benjamin Akera, Yoshua Bengio, Hager Radi Abdelwahed, Hugo Larochelle, David Rolnick
2023	A*	`conf`	SatBird: a Dataset for Bird Species Distribution Modeling using Remote Sensing and Citizen Science Data. NeurIPS Mélisande Teng, Amna Elmustafa, Benjamin Akera, Yoshua Bengio, Hager Radi Abdelwahed, Hugo Larochelle, David Rolnick
2021	—	`conf`	hBERT + BiasCorp - Fighting Racism on the Web. LT-EDI@EACL Olawale Onabola, Zhuang Ma, Yang Xie, Benjamin Akera, Abdulrahman Ibraheem, Jia Xue, Dianbo Liu, Yoshua Bengio
2021	J	`jnl`	hBert + BiasCorp - Fighting Racism on the Web. CoRR Olawale Onabola, Zhuang Ma, Yang Xie, Benjamin Akera, Abdulrahman Ibraheem, Jia Xue, Dianbo Liu, Yoshua Bengio
2020	—	`conf`	Improving In-field Cassava Whitefly Pest Surveillance with Machine Learning. CVPR Workshops Jeremy Francis Tusubira, Solomon Nsumba, Flavia Ninsiima, Benjamin Akera, Guy Acellam, Joyce Nakatumba, Ernest Mwebaze, John A. Quinn, Tonny J. Oyana
2020	J	`jnl`	Machine Learning for Glacier Monitoring in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. CoRR Shimaa Baraka, Benjamin Akera, Bibek Aryal, Tenzing Chogyal Sherpa, Finu Shresta, Anthony Ortiz, Kris Sankaran, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Mir Matin, Yoshua Bengio
2020	J	`jnl`	Scoring Root Necrosis in Cassava Using Semantic Segmentation. CoRR Jeremy Francis Tusubira, Benjamin Akera, Solomon Nsumba, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Ernest Mwebaze
2019	J	`jnl`	Keyword Spotter Model for Crop Pest and Disease Monitoring from Community Radio Data. CoRR Benjamin Akera, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Jonathan Mukiibi, Ali Hussein, Nathan Baleeta, Daniel Ssendiwala, Samiiha Nalwooga

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.

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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