George Chalhoub

16 papers A* 3C 1Journal 6Unranked 6

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2024	—	`conf`	Beyond the Office Walls: Understanding Security and Shadow Security Behaviours in a Remote Work Context. SOUPS @ USENIX Security Symposium Sarah A. Alromaih, Ivan Flechais, George Chalhoub
2024	J	`jnl`	Trouble in Paradise? Understanding Mastodon Admin's Motivations, Experiences, and Challenges Running Decentralised Social Media. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. Zhilin Zhang, Jun Zhao, Ge Wang, Samantha-Kaye Johnston, George Chalhoub, Tala Ross, Diyi Liu, Claudine Tinsman, Rui Zhao, Max Van Kleek, Nigel Shadbolt
2024	J	`jnl`	Useful shortcuts: Using design heuristics for consent and permission in smart home devices. Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud. George Chalhoub, Martin J. Kraemer, Ivan Flechais
2023	J	`jnl`	"It becomes more of an abstract idea, this privacy" - Informing the design for communal privacy experiences in smart homes. Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud. Martin J. Kraemer, George Chalhoub, Helena Webb, Ivan Flechais
2023	A*	`conf`	'You are you and the app. There's nobody else.': Building Worker-Designed Data Institutions within Platform Hegemony. CHI Jake M. L. Stein, Vidminas Vizgirda, Max Van Kleek, Reuben Binns, Jun Zhao, Rui Zhao, Naman Goel, George Chalhoub, Wael S. Albayaydh, Nigel Shadbolt
2023	—	`conf`	But is it exploitable? Exploring how Router Vendors Manage and Patch Security Vulnerabilities in Consumer-Grade Routers. EuroUSEC George Chalhoub, Andrew Martin
2023	J	`jnl`	Navigating the Data Avalanche: Towards Supporting Developers in Developing Privacy-Friendly Children's Apps. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. Anirudh Ekambaranathan, Jun Zhao, George Chalhoub
2023	C	`conf`	Practical Cybersecurity Ethics: Mapping CyBOK to Ethical Concerns. NSPW Ivan Flechais, George Chalhoub
2023	J	`jnl`	Practical Cybersecurity Ethics: Mapping CyBOK to Ethical Concerns. CoRR Ivan Flechais, George Chalhoub
2022	A*	`conf`	"It's Freedom to Put Things Where My Mind Wants": Understanding and Improving the User Experience of Structuring Data in Spreadsheets. CHI George Chalhoub, Advait Sarkar
2022	J	`jnl`	Data Protection at a Discount: Investigating the UX of Data Protection from User, Designer, and Business Leader Perspectives. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. George Chalhoub, Ivan Flechais
2021	A*	`conf`	"It did not give me an option to decline": A Longitudinal Analysis of the User Experience of Security and Privacy in Smart Home Products. CHI George Chalhoub, Martin J. Kraemer, Norbert Nthala, Ivan Flechais
2020	—	`conf`	"Alexa, Are You Spying on Me?": Exploring the Effect of User Experience on the Security and Privacy of Smart Speaker Users. HCI (30) George Chalhoub, Ivan Flechais
2020	—	`conf`	Factoring User Experience into the Security and Privacy Design of Smart Home Devices: A Case Study. CHI Extended Abstracts George Chalhoub, Ivan Flechais, Norbert Nthala, Ruba Abu-Salma, Elie Tom
2020	—	`conf`	Innovation Inaction or In Action? The Role of User Experience in the Security and Privacy Design of Smart Home Cameras. SOUPS @ USENIX Security Symposium George Chalhoub, Ivan Flechais, Norbert Nthala, Ruba Abu-Salma
2020	—	`conf`	The UX of Things: Exploring UX Principles to Inform Security and Privacy Design in the Smart Home. CHI Extended Abstracts George Chalhoub

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.

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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