Danfeng Daphne Yao

18 papers A* 1A 2C 1Journal 7Unranked 7

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	—	`conf`	AI/ML Trustworthiness for Medical Predictions - Experimental Results. ACSAC Workshops Mohimenul Karim, Tanmoy Sarkar Pias, Bimal Viswanath, Danfeng Daphne Yao
2022	J	`jnl`	Being the Developers' Friend: Our Experience Developing a High-Precision Tool for Secure Coding. IEEE Secur. Priv. Danfeng Daphne Yao, Sazzadur Rahaman, Ya Xiao, Sharmin Afrose, Miles Frantz, Ke Tian, Na Meng, Cristina Cifuentes, Yang Zhao, Nicholas Allen, Nathan Keynes, Barton P. Miller, Elisa Heymann, Murat Kantarcioglu, Fahad Shaon
2022	—	`conf`	Poster: Comprehensive Comparisons of Embedding Approaches for Cryptographic API Completion. ICSE-Companion Ya Xiao, Salman Ahmed, Xinyang Ge, Bimal Viswanath, Na Meng, Danfeng Daphne Yao
2022	J	`jnl`	Privacy Guarantees of Bluetooth Low Energy Contact Tracing: A Case Study on COVIDWISE. Computer Salman Ahmed, Ya Xiao, Taejoong Chung, Carol J. Fung, Moti Yung, Danfeng Daphne Yao
2021	J	`jnl`	ACSAC 2020: Furthering the Quest to Tackle Hard Problems and Find Practical Solutions. IEEE Secur. Priv. Danfeng Daphne Yao, Terry Benzel
2021	J	`jnl`	Checking is Believing: Event-Aware Program Anomaly Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems. IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. Long Cheng, Ke Tian, Danfeng Daphne Yao, Lui Sha, Raheem A. Beyah
2021	C	`conf`	Measurement of Local Differential Privacy Techniques for IoT-based Streaming Data. PST Sharmin Afrose, Danfeng Daphne Yao, Olivera Kotevska
2021	—	`conf`	Tutorial: Investigating Advanced Exploits for System Security Assurance. SecDev Salman Ahmed, Long Cheng, Hans Liljestrand, N. Asokan, Danfeng Daphne Yao
2020	—	`conf`	Coding Practices and Recommendations of Spring Security for Enterprise Applications. SecDev Mazharul Islam, Sazzadur Rahaman, Na Meng, Behnaz Hassanshahi, Padmanabhan Krishnan, Danfeng Daphne Yao
2020	J	`jnl`	Deep Learning-Based Anomaly Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems: Progress and Opportunities. CoRR Yuan Luo, Ya Xiao, Long Cheng, Guojun Peng, Danfeng Daphne Yao
2020	A	`conf`	GPU-Based Static Data-Flow Analysis for Fast and Scalable Android App Vetting. IPDPS Xiaodong Yu, Fengguo Wei, Xinming Ou, Michela Becchi, Tekin Bicer, Danfeng Daphne Yao
2020	A	`conf`	Investigating The Reproducibility of NPM Packages. ICSME Pronnoy Goswami, Saksham Gupta, Zhiyuan Li, Na Meng, Danfeng Daphne Yao
2020	—	`conf`	Tutorial: Principles and Practices of Secure Cryptographic Coding in Java. SecDev Ya Xiao, Miles Frantz, Sharmin Afrose, Sazzadur Rahaman, Danfeng Daphne Yao
2019	—	`conf`	Neural Cryptanalysis: Metrics, Methodology, and Applications in CPS Ciphers. DSC Ya Xiao, Qingying Hao, Danfeng Daphne Yao
2019	A*	`conf`	Security Certification in Payment Card Industry: Testbeds, Measurements, and Recommendations. CCS Sazzadur Rahaman, Gang Wang, Danfeng Daphne Yao
2017	J	`jnl`	Provably Secure Anonymous-yet-Accountable Crowdsensing with Scalable Sublinear Revocation. Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol. Sazzadur Rahaman, Long Cheng, Danfeng Daphne Yao, He Li, Jung-Min "Jerry" Park
2017	—	`conf`	ReDroid: Prioritizing Data Flows and Sinks for App Security Transformation. FEAST@CCS Ke Tian, Gang Tan, Danfeng Daphne Yao, Barbara G. Ryder
2017	J	`jnl`	Secure Coding Practices in Java: Challenges and Vulnerabilities. CoRR Na Meng, Stefan Nagy, Danfeng Daphne Yao, Wenjie Zhuang, Gustavo A. Arango-Argoty

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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