Benjamin Mariano

11 papers A* 2Journal 8Unranked 1

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2024	J	`jnl`	Control-Flow Deobfuscation using Trace-Informed Compositional Program Synthesis. Proc. ACM Program. Lang. Benjamin Mariano, Ziteng Wang, Shankara Pailoor, Christian S. Collberg, Isil Dillig
2023	J	`jnl`	Automated Translation of Functional Big Data Queries to SQL. Proc. ACM Program. Lang. Guoqiang Zhang, Benjamin Mariano, Xipeng Shen, Isil Dillig
2022	J	`jnl`	Automated Transpilation of Imperative to Functional Code using Neural-Guided Program Synthesis (Extended Version). CoRR Benjamin Mariano, Yanju Chen, Yu Feng, Greg Durrett, Isil Dillig
2022	J	`jnl`	Automated transpilation of imperative to functional code using neural-guided program synthesis. Proc. ACM Program. Lang. Benjamin Mariano, Yanju Chen, Yu Feng, Greg Durrett, Isil Dillig
2022	J	`jnl`	SolType: refinement types for arithmetic overflow in solidity. Proc. ACM Program. Lang. Bryan Tan, Benjamin Mariano, Shuvendu K. Lahiri, Isil Dillig, Yu Feng
2021	—	`conf`	Automatically Tailoring Abstract Interpretation to Custom Usage Scenarios. CAV (2) Muhammad Numair Mansur, Benjamin Mariano, Maria Christakis, Jorge A. Navas, Valentin Wüstholz
2021	A*	`conf`	SmartPulse: Automated Checking of Temporal Properties in Smart Contracts. SP Jon Stephens, Kostas Ferles, Benjamin Mariano, Shuvendu K. Lahiri, Isil Dillig
2021	J	`jnl`	SolType: Refinement Types for Solidity. CoRR Bryan Tan, Benjamin Mariano, Shuvendu K. Lahiri, Isil Dillig, Yu Feng
2020	J	`jnl`	Automatically Tailoring Static Analysis to Custom Usage Scenarios. CoRR Muhammad Numair Mansur, Benjamin Mariano, Maria Christakis, Jorge A. Navas, Valentin Wüstholz
2020	A*	`conf`	Demystifying Loops in Smart Contracts. ASE Benjamin Mariano, Yanju Chen, Yu Feng, Shuvendu K. Lahiri, Isil Dillig
2019	J	`jnl`	Program synthesis with algebraic library specifications. Proc. ACM Program. Lang. Benjamin Mariano, Josh Reese, Siyuan Xu, ThanhVu Nguyen, Xiaokang Qiu, Jeffrey S. Foster, Armando Solar-Lezama

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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