Farid Ykhlef

11 papers B 2C 1Journal 1Unranked 7

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2022	—	`conf`	Automatic Classification Mechanism for the Two Most Common Power Quality Disturbances: Sag and Swell. SSD Yamina Simhamed, Farid Ykhlef, Abdelhamid Iratni
2020	—	`conf`	Experimental Investigation into the Influence of the Distance Between Microphones for 2D Real-Time Sound Source Localization Using GCC-PHAT Technique. CSA Belgacem Douaer, Farid Ykhlef, Fayçal Ykhlef
2019	—	`conf`	Real-Time Detection of Impulsive Sounds for Audio Surveillance Systems. JERI Fayçal Ykhlef, Sarah Ahmed Hamada, Farid Ykhlef, Abdeladhim Derbal, Djamel Bouchaffra
2019	B	`conf`	Selection of Optimal Sub-ensembles of Classifiers through Evolutionary Game Theory. SMC Hadjer Ykhlef, Djamel Bouchaffra, Farid Ykhlef
2018	—	`conf`	Frequency Estimation and Tracking in Electrical Power Systems. ICMCS Farid Ykhlef
2015	C	`conf`	Yet Another Approach for the Measurement of the Degree of Voice Normality: A Simple Scheme Based on Feature Reduction and Single Gaussian Distributions. ISM Fayçal Ykhlef, Wahiba Benzaba, Boutaleb Ratiba, Jesús B. Alonso, Farid Ykhlef
2014	—	`conf`	A smoothed Minimum Mean-Square Error Log-Spectral Amplitude estimator for speech enhancement. ICMCS Farid Ykhlef, Hadjer Ykhlef
2014	B	`conf`	Coalitional game-based adaboost. SMC Hadjer Ykhlef, Djamel Bouchaffra, Farid Ykhlef
2013	J	`jnl`	An efficient solution to improve the spectral noise suppression rules. Digit. Signal Process. Farid Ykhlef
2012	—	`conf`	Influence of Dolph-Chebyshev window on speech enhancement. ICMCS Farid Ykhlef, Hadjer Ykhlef, Abdelkader Aissat
2012	—	`conf`	Investigation on the optical gain and threshold current density of Ga1-xInxAs1-y-zNySbz /GaAs strained quantum wells laser. ICMCS Abdelkader Aissat, Said Nacer, Farid Ykhlef, Jean-Pierre Vilcot

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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