Daniel Joseph Dean

11 papers B 2Journal 3Unranked 6

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2019	J	`jnl`	Hytrace: A Hybrid Approach to Performance Bug Diagnosis in Production Cloud Infrastructures. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst. Ting Dai, Daniel Joseph Dean, Peipei Wang, Xiaohui Gu, Shan Lu
2017	B	`conf`	Engineering Scalable, Secure, Multi-Tenant Cloud for Healthcare Data. SERVICES Daniel Joseph Dean, Rohit Ranchal, Yu Gu, Anca Sailer, Shakil Khan, Kirk A. Beaty, Senthil Bakthavachalam, Yichong Yu, Yaoping Ruan, Paul Bastide
2016	J	`jnl`	PerfCompass: Online Performance Anomaly Fault Localization and Inference in Infrastructure-as-a-Service Clouds. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst. Daniel Joseph Dean, Hiep Nguyen, Peipei Wang, Xiaohui Gu, Anca Sailer, Andrzej Kochut
2015	—	`conf`	Automatic Server Hang Bug Diagnosis: Feasible Reality or Pipe Dream? ICAC Daniel Joseph Dean, Peipei Wang, Xiaohui Gu, William Enck, Guoliang Jin
2015	B	`conf`	Understanding Real World Data Corruptions in Cloud Systems. IC2E Peipei Wang, Daniel Joseph Dean, Xiaohui Gu
2014	—	`conf`	Insight: In-situ Online Service Failure Path Inference in Production Computing Infrastructures. USENIX ATC Hiep Nguyen, Daniel Joseph Dean, Kamal KC, Xiaohui Gu
2014	—	`conf`	PREC: practical root exploit containment for android devices. CODASPY Tsung-Hsuan Ho, Daniel Joseph Dean, Xiaohui Gu, William Enck
2014	—	`conf`	PerfCompass: Toward Runtime Performance Anomaly Fault Localization for Infrastructure-as-a-Service Clouds. HotCloud Daniel Joseph Dean, Hiep Nguyen, Peipei Wang, Xiaohui Gu
2014	—	`conf`	PerfScope: Practical Online Server Performance Bug Inference in Production Cloud Computing Infrastructures. SoCC Daniel Joseph Dean, Hiep Nguyen, Xiaohui Gu, Hui Zhang, Junghwan Rhee, Nipun Arora, Geoff Jiang
2014	J	`jnl`	Scalable Distributed Service Integrity Attestation for Software-as-a-Service Clouds. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst. Juan Du, Daniel Joseph Dean, Yongmin Tan, Xiaohui Gu, Ting Yu
2012	—	`conf`	UBL: unsupervised behavior learning for predicting performance anomalies in virtualized cloud systems. ICAC Daniel Joseph Dean, Hiep Nguyen, Xiaohui Gu

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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