Faisal Ghaffar

16 papers B 7Journal 7Unranked 2
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
J. Medical Syst.
Sadaf Faisal, Bincy Baby, Devine Samoth, Faisal Ghaffar, Yusra Aslam, Alexander Stavropoulos, Brent McCready-Branch, Ghada Elba, Jasdeep Kaur Gill, Prapti Choudhuri, Tejal A. Patel
2025 J jnl
Comput. Biol. Medicine
Faisal Ghaffar, Yousuf Zia Islam, Nadine Furtado, Catherine M. Burns
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Faisal Ghaffar
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Faisal Ghaffar
2021 B conf
ASONAM
Faisal Ghaffar, Neil Hurley
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Faisal Ghaffar, Sarwar Khan, Bunyarit Uyyanonvara, Chanjira Sinthanayothin, Hirohiko Kaneko
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Faisal Ghaffar
2020 B conf
ESANN
Brian Maguire, Faisal Ghaffar
2020 B conf
GLOBECOM
Faisal Ghaffar, George William Kibirige, Chih-Ya Shen, Meng Chang Chen
2020 J jnl
Appl. Netw. Sci.
Peter Keane, Faisal Ghaffar, David Malone
2019 — conf
COMPLEX NETWORKS (2)
Faisal Ghaffar, Neil Hurley
2019 — conf
COMPLEX NETWORKS (2)
Peter Keane, Faisal Ghaffar, David Malone
2018 B conf
ASONAM
Faisal Ghaffar, Teodora Sandra Buda, Haytham Assem, Armita Afsharinejad, Neil Hurley
2018 B conf
EC-TEL
Faisal Ghaffar, Neil Peirce, Alec Serlie
2018 B conf
ASONAM
Rajesh Sharma, Kevin McAreavey, Jun Hong, Faisal Ghaffar
2018 B conf
ASONAM
Faisal Ghaffar, Teodora Sandra Buda, Haytham Assem, Armita Afsharinejad, Neil Hurley

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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