Elliot Murphy

14 papers Journal 14

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	J	`jnl`	Neurocomputational Mechanisms of Syntactic Transfer in Bilingual Sentence Production. CoRR Ahmet Yavuz Uluslu, Elliot Murphy
2025	J	`jnl`	Fundamental Principles of Linguistic Structure are Not Represented by o3. CoRR Elliot Murphy, Evelina Leivada, Vittoria Dentella, Fritz Günther, Gary Marcus
2025	J	`jnl`	Merge-based syntax is mediated by distinct neurocognitive mechanisms: A clustering analysis of comprehension abilities in 84,000 individuals with language deficits across nine languages. CoRR Elliot Murphy, Rohan Venkatesh, Edward Khokhlovich, Andrey Vyshedskiy
2024	J	`jnl`	A Comparative Investigation of Compositional Syntax and Semantics in DALL-E 2. CoRR Elliot Murphy, Jill de Villiers, Sofia Lucero Morales
2024	J	`jnl`	On the referential capacity of language models: An internalist rejoinder to Mandelkern & Linzen. CoRR Giosuè Baggio, Elliot Murphy
2024	J	`jnl`	Shadow of the (Hierarchical) Tree: Reconciling Symbolic and Predictive Components of the Neural Code for Syntax. CoRR Elliot Murphy
2024	J	`jnl`	What is a word? CoRR Elliot Murphy
2023	J	`jnl`	A Sentence is Worth a Thousand Pictures: Can Large Language Models Understand Human Language? CoRR Gary Marcus, Evelina Leivada, Elliot Murphy
2023	J	`jnl`	ROSE: A Neurocomputational Architecture for Syntax. CoRR Elliot Murphy
2023	J	`jnl`	Testing AI performance on less frequent aspects of language reveals insensitivity to underlying meaning. CoRR Vittoria Dentella, Elliot Murphy, Gary Marcus, Evelina Leivada
2023	J	`jnl`	The Quo Vadis of the Relationship between Language and Large Language Models. CoRR Evelina Leivada, Vittoria Dentella, Elliot Murphy
2022	J	`jnl`	Copredication and Complexity Revisited: A Reply to Löhr and Michel. Cogn. Sci. Elliot Murphy
2022	J	`jnl`	DALL-E 2 Fails to Reliably Capture Common Syntactic Processes. CoRR Evelina Leivada, Elliot Murphy, Gary Marcus
2022	J	`jnl`	Natural Language Syntax Complies with the Free-Energy Principle. CoRR Elliot Murphy, Emma Holmes, Karl J. Friston

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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