Farhaan Fowze

11 papers A* 1A 1C 2Journal 4Unranked 3

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2023	J	`jnl`	ENCIDER: Detecting Timing and Cache Side Channels in SGX Enclaves and Cryptographic APIs. IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. Tuba Yavuz, Farhaan Fowze, Grant Hernandez, Ken Yihang Bai, Kevin R. B. Butler, Dave Jing Tian
2022	—	`conf`	EISec: Exhaustive Information Flow Security of Hardware Intellectual Property Utilizing Symbolic Execution. AsianHOST Farhaan Fowze, Muhtadi Choudhury, Domenic Forte
2022	—	`conf`	EXERT: EXhaustive IntEgRiTy Analysis for Information Flow Security. AsianHOST Jiaming Wu, Farhaan Fowze, Domenic Forte
2021	—	`conf`	Finding Memory Vulnerabilities in Protocol Stack Implementations using Hybrid Program Analysis. NSysS Farhaan Fowze, Tuba Yavuz
2021	J	`jnl`	ProXray: Protocol Model Learning and Guided Firmware Analysis. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. Farhaan Fowze, Dave Tian, Grant Hernandez, Kevin R. B. Butler, Tuba Yavuz
2021	C	`conf`	SEESAW: a tool for detecting memory vulnerabilities in protocol stack implementations. MEMOCODE Farhaan Fowze, Tuba Yavuz
2019	J	`jnl`	Toward Automated Firmware Analysis in the IoT Era. IEEE Secur. Priv. Grant Hernandez, Farhaan Fowze, Dave Jing Tian, Tuba Yavuz, Patrick Traynor, Kevin R. B. Butler
2017	A*	`conf`	FirmUSB: Vetting USB Device Firmware using Domain Informed Symbolic Execution. CCS Grant Hernandez, Farhaan Fowze, Dave (Jing) Tian, Tuba Yavuz, Kevin R. B. Butler
2017	J	`jnl`	FirmUSB: Vetting USB Device Firmware using Domain Informed Symbolic Execution. CoRR Grant Hernandez, Farhaan Fowze, Dave Tian, Tuba Yavuz, Kevin R. B. Butler
2016	A	`conf`	Extracting configuration parameter interactions using static analysis. ICPC Chelsea A. Metcalf, Farhaan Fowze, Tuba Yavuz, José A. B. Fortes
2016	C	`conf`	Specification, verification, and synthesis using extended state machines with callbacks. MEMOCODE Farhaan Fowze, Tuba Yavuz

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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