Dan Kifer

13 papers A* 1A 2B 1Journal 8

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2021	B	`conf`	An Empirical Analysis of Recurrent Learning Algorithms in Neural Lossy Image Compression Systems. DCC Ankur Mali, Alexander G. Ororbia II, Dan Kifer, C. Lee Giles
2019	A*	`conf`	A Neural Temporal Model for Human Motion Prediction. CVPR Anand Gopalakrishnan, Ankur Mali, Dan Kifer, C. Lee Giles, Alexander G. Ororbia II
2019	J	`jnl`	Free Gap Information from the Differentially Private Sparse Vector and Noisy Max Mechanisms. Proc. VLDB Endow. Zeyu Ding, Yuxin Wang, Danfeng Zhang, Dan Kifer
2019	A	`conf`	Renyi Differentially Private ERM for Smooth Objectives. AISTATS Chen Chen, Jaewoo Lee, Dan Kifer
2019	A	`conf`	TextContourNet: A Flexible and Effective Framework for Improving Scene Text Detection Architecture With a Multi-Task Cascade. WACV Dafang He, Xiao Yang, Dan Kifer, C. Lee Giles
2018	J	`jnl`	A Neural Temporal Model for Human Motion Prediction. CoRR Anand Gopalakrishnan, Ankur Mali, Dan Kifer, C. Lee Giles, Alexander G. Ororbia II
2018	J	`jnl`	Reminiscenses of Steve Fienberg. J. Priv. Confidentiality Dan Kifer
2016	J	`jnl`	Smart Library: Identifying Books in a Library using Richly Supervised Deep Scene Text Reading. CoRR Xiao Yang, Dafang He, Wenyi Huang, Zihan Zhou, Alexander Ororbia, Dan Kifer, C. Lee Giles
2015	J	`jnl`	A Simple Baseline for Travel Time Estimation using Large-Scale Trip Data. CoRR Hongjian Wang, Zhenhui Li, Yu-Hsuan Kuo, Dan Kifer
2015	J	`jnl`	Private Posterior distributions from Variational approximations. CoRR Vishesh Karwa, Dan Kifer, Aleksandra B. Slavkovic
2014	J	`jnl`	Towards a Systematic Analysis of Privacy Definitions. J. Priv. Confidentiality Bing-Rong Lin, Dan Kifer
2013	J	`jnl`	Introduction to Special Section. J. Priv. Confidentiality Dan Kifer
2006	—	`—`	Graphs and Privacy. Dan Kifer

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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