Ed Harcourt

11 papers B 1Journal 6Unranked 4

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2015	—	`conf`	A virtual machine model for accelerating relational database joins using a general purpose GPU. SpringSim (HPS) Kevin Angstadt, Ed Harcourt
2014	J	`jnl`	A SystemC library for specifying pipeline abstractions. Microprocess. Microsystems Ed Harcourt, James T. Perconti
2010	J	`jnl`	Design and construction of general purpose computing resources for Linux based computer science education. J. Comput. Sci. Coll. Richard Sharp, Ed Harcourt
2008	J	`jnl`	Policies of System Level Pipeline Modeling CoRR Ed Harcourt
2008	—	`conf`	Policies of System Level Pipeline Modeling. WGT Ed Harcourt
2007	J	`jnl`	Simulation, design abstraction, and SystemC. Comput. Sci. Educ. Ed Harcourt
2005	J	`jnl`	Student competitions and bots in an introductory programming course. J. Comput. Sci. Coll. Brian C. Ladd, Ed Harcourt
2005	J	`jnl`	Teaching computer organization and architecture using SystemC. J. Comput. Sci. Coll. Ed Harcourt
1994	—	`conf`	A Functional Specification Language for Instruction Set Architectures. ICCL Todd A. Cook, Ed Harcourt
1994	—	`conf`	Formal specification and simulation of instruction-level parallelism. EURO-DAC Ed Harcourt, Jon Mauney, Todd A. Cook
1994	B	`conf`	From Processor Timing Specifications to Static Intruction Scheduling. SAS Ed Harcourt, Jon Mauney, Todd A. Cook

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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