Daniele Costa

14 papers Journal 5Unranked 9
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 — conf
MED
Flavia Gioiello, Beatrice Moliterno, Veronica Bartolucci, Francesco Di Nardo, Daniele Costa, David Scaradozzi
2025 J jnl
IEEE Access
David Scaradozzi, Veronica Bartolucci, Flavia Gioiello, Daniele Costa, Benedetta Castagna, Elena Zattoni, Gianluca Antonelli, Daniele Di Vito, Alessandro Marino, Filippo Arrichiello, Paolo Di Lillo, Stefano Chiaverini, Giuseppe Gillini
2024 — conf
MESA
Federico Emiliani, Daniele Costa, Giacomo Palmieri, Daniele Polucci, Albin Bajrami, Chiara Leoni
2024 — conf
MESA
Simone Pantanetti, Federico Emiliani, Daniele Costa, Giacomo Palmieri, Albin Bajrami
2024 J jnl
Robotics
Albin Bajrami, Matteo-Claudio Palpacelli, Luca Carbonari, Daniele Costa
2024 — conf
ERF (2)
Cecilia Scoccia, Serenella Terlizzi, Samuele Tonelli, Daniele Costa, Giacomo Palmieri
2022 J jnl
Robotics
Daniele Costa, Cecilia Scoccia, Matteo Palpacelli, Massimo Callegari, David Scaradozzi
2022 — conf
MESA
Daniele Costa, Matteo-Claudio Palpacelli, Giacomo Palmieri, Luca Carbonari, Cecilia Scoccia, David Scaradozzi
2022 — conf
MESA
Luca Carbonari, Matteo Forlini, Cecilia Scoccia, Daniele Costa, Matteo-Claudio Palpacelli
2018 — conf
RTSI
Silvia Zingaretti, David Scaradozzi, Nicolò Ciuccoli, Daniele Costa, Giacomo Palmieri, Fabio Bruno, Gerardo Ritacco, Marco Cozza, P. Raxis, T. Tzifopanopoulos, A. Manglis, C. S. Agouridis, M. Michalis
2018 J jnl
J. Intell. Robotic Syst.
Daniele Costa, Giacomo Palmieri, Matteo-Claudio Palpacelli, Luca Panebianco, David Scaradozzi
2018 — conf
MESA
Daniele Costa, Massimo Callegari, Giacomo Palmieri, David Scaradozzi, Maurizio Brocchini, Gianluca Zitti
2017 — conf
ROBIO
Daniele Costa, Matteo Franciolini, Giacomo Palmieri, Andrea Crivellini, David Scaradozzi
2017 J jnl
Int. J. Autom. Technol.
David Scaradozzi, Giacomo Palmieri, Daniele Costa, Silvia Zingaretti, Luca Panebianco, Nicolò Ciuccoli, Antonio Pinelli, Massimo Callegari

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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