Leonard Hoon

11 papers B 1Misc 7Journal 1Unranked 2

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2022	B	`conf`	PiMS: A Pre-ML Labelling Tool. e-Science Irini Logothetis, Scott Barnett, Leonard Hoon, Srikanth Thudumu, Joseph Mathew, Carl Luckhoff, Gerard O'Reilly, David Collard, Rajesh Vasa, Kon Mouzakis, Mark Fitzgerald
2020	—	`conf`	Computer Science Ethics Education in Australia - A Work in Progress. TALE Radhika Gorur, Leonard Hoon, Emma Kowal
2016	Misc	`conf`	Agree to disagree: on labelling helpful app reviews. OZCHI Andrew J. Simmons, Leonard Hoon
2016	Misc	`conf`	Does textual word-of-mouth affect look and feel? OZCHI Milica Stojmenovic, John Grundy, Vivienne Farrell, Robert Biddle, Leonard Hoon
2016	Misc	`conf`	Spreading word: author frequency of app user reviews. OZCHI Leonard Hoon, Milica Stojmenovic, Rajesh Vasa, Graham Farrell
2015	J	`jnl`	ICT-Enabled Time-Critical Clinical Practices: Examining the Affordances of an Information Processing Solution. Australas. J. Inf. Syst. Leonard Hoon, Felix Ter Chian Tan, Rajesh Vasa, Kon Mouzakis, Mark Fitzgerald
2013	Misc	`conf`	Awesome!: conveying satisfaction on the app store. OZCHI Leonard Hoon, Rajesh Vasa, Gloria Yoanita Martino, Jean-Guy Schneider, Kon Mouzakis
2012	Misc	`conf`	A preliminary analysis of mobile app user reviews. OZCHI Rajesh Vasa, Leonard Hoon, Kon Mouzakis, Akihiro Noguchi
2012	Misc	`conf`	A preliminary analysis of vocabulary in mobile app user reviews. OZCHI Leonard Hoon, Rajesh Vasa, Jean-Guy Schneider, Kon Mouzakis
2012	Misc	`conf`	Simulated influence of user interaction with mobile devices amongst pedestrians. OZCHI Shannon S. Pace, Leonard Hoon, Clinton J. Woodward
2010	—	`conf`	Do metrics help to identify refactoring? EVOL/IWPSE Jean-Guy Schneider, Rajesh Vasa, Leonard Hoon

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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