Daniele Maccagnola

15 papers B 1Misc 3Journal 2Unranked 9
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2024 — conf
DS (1)
Mario Bianchi, Francesco Spinnato, Riccardo Guidotti, Daniele Maccagnola, Antonio Bencini Farina
2024 J jnl
IEEE Access
Lorenzo Tronchin, Ermanno Cordelli, Lorenzo Ricciardi Celsi, Daniele Maccagnola, Massimo Natale, Paolo Soda, Rosa Sicilia
2022 B conf
DS
Francesco Spinnato, Riccardo Guidotti, Mirco Nanni, Daniele Maccagnola, Giulia Paciello, Antonio Bencini Farina
2021 — conf
ICCI*CC
Lorenzo Tronchin, Rosa Sicilia, Ermanno Cordelli, Lorenzo Ricciardi Celsi, Daniele Maccagnola, Massimo Natale, Paolo Soda
2015 — conf
HT
Valentina Beretta, Daniele Maccagnola, Timothy Cribbin, Enza Messina
2015 — conf
KDIR
Daniele Maccagnola, Elisabetta Fersini, Rabah Djennadi, Enza Messina
2014 — conf
SEFM Workshops
Debora Nozza, Daniele Maccagnola, Vincent Guigue, Enza Messina, Patrick Gallinari
2013 Misc conf
EPIA
Mauro Castelli, Davide Castaldi, Ilaria Giordani, Sara Silva, Leonardo Vanneschi, Francesco Archetti, Daniele Maccagnola
2013 — conf
GECCO (Companion)
Mauro Castelli, Davide Castaldi, Leonardo Vanneschi, Ilaria Giordani, Francesco Archetti, Daniele Maccagnola
2013 — conf
AI*IA
Federico Alberto Pozzi, Daniele Maccagnola, Elisabetta Fersini, Enza Messina
2013 — conf
EvoBIO
Davide Castaldi, Daniele Maccagnola, Daniela Mari, Francesco Archetti
2013 J jnl
IEEE ACM Trans. Comput. Biol. Bioinform.
Qian Gao, David R. Gilbert, Monika Heiner, Fei Liu, Daniele Maccagnola, David Tree
2012 Misc conf
WSC
Daniele Maccagnola, Enza Messina, Qian Gao, David R. Gilbert
2012 Misc conf
WSC
Davide Castaldi, Francesco Archetti, Daniele Maccagnola, Daniela Mari
2012 — conf
Euro-Par Workshops
Davide Castaldi, Daniele Maccagnola, Daniela Mari, Francesco Archetti

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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