Gaurav Sood

11 papers Misc 1Journal 6Unranked 4

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	J	`jnl`	Social Proof is in the Pudding: The (Non)-Impact of Social Proof on Software Downloads. CoRR Lucas Shen, Gaurav Sood
2025	J	`jnl`	Exposed: Shedding Blacklight on Online Privacy. CoRR Lucas Shen, Gaurav Sood
2023	—	`conf`	Characterizing Static Analysis Alerts for Terraform Manifests: An Experience Report. SecDev Hanyang Hu, Yani Bu, Kristen Wong, Gaurav Sood, Karen Smiley, Akond Rahman
2023	J	`jnl`	Instate: Predicting the State of Residence From Last Name. CoRR Atul Dhingra, Gaurav Sood
2023	J	`jnl`	Scaling ML Products At Startups: A Practitioner's Guide. CoRR Atul Dhingra, Gaurav Sood
2020	Misc	`conf`	Domain Knowledge: Predicting the Kind of Content Hosted by a Domain. CISIS Suriyan Laohaprapanon, Gaurav Sood
2019	—	`conf`	Pwned: The Risk of Exposure From Data Breaches. WebSci Gaurav Sood, Ken Cor
2018	J	`jnl`	Pwned: How Often Are Americans' Online Accounts Breached? CoRR Ken Cor, Gaurav Sood
2018	J	`jnl`	Street Sense: Learning from Google Street View. CoRR Suriyan Laohaprapanon, Kimberly Ortleb, Gaurav Sood
2015	—	`conf`	Analyzing accuracy of GPS data for vehicular parameters. ICCVE Gaurav Sood, Jordan T. Willis, Arunita Jaekel, Shaik Nazeer, Dominic Paulraj
2004	—	`conf`	Soundstudio 4D: A VR Interface for Gestural Composition of Spatial Soundscapes. ICAD James Sheridan, Gaurav Sood, Thomas Jacob, Henry J. Gardner, Stephen Barrass

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.

Nicolò Altamura is not a football player. Please avoid reporting this kind of infromation.