Olga Pierrakos

21 papers C 21

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2024	C	`conf`	Cultivating Character Through Student-Centered and Mastery-Based Learning: A Case Study in a Thermal Fluids Engineering Course. FIE Olga Pierrakos, Saami K. Yazdani, Jessica Koehler
2024	C	`conf`	Designing Transformative Engineering Education Projects Towards National Science Foundation Funding Success. FIE Olga Pierrakos, Matthew Verleger, Lulu Sun, Christine Delahanty, Nasser Alaraje, Alice L. Pawley
2023	C	`conf`	Moral and Civic Virtues in Engineering: Reimagining Engineering Ethics to Cultivate Virtuous Engineers. FIE Olga Pierrakos, Adetoun O. Yeaman, Kyle Luthy, Mary Gentile
2022	C	`conf`	Scoping Review of Character Development Pedagogies in Engineering Education. FIE Adetoun O. Yeaman, Jessica Koehler, Jesse Pappas, Olga Pierrakos
2021	C	`conf`	Engineering Education Meets Organizational Science: Toward Best Practices for Strategic Change. FIE Jesse Pappas, Olga Pierrakos
2021	C	`conf`	What Role Should Character Education Play in Engineering Education? A Special Session to Rethink How We Educate the Whole Engineer. FIE Olga Pierrakos, Adetoun O. Yeaman, Michael Gross, Jesse Pappas
2019	C	`conf`	Liberal Arts Engineering Education: Reflecting on the Past and Envisioning the Future. FIE Olga Pierrakos, Eric Stottlemyer
2019	C	`conf`	Reimagining Engineering Ethics: From Ethics Education to Character Education. FIE Olga Pierrakos, Mike Prentice, Cameron Silverglate, Michael Lamb, Alana Demaske, Ryan Smout
2017	C	`conf`	The engineering student identity scale a cross disciplinary exploration of factor structure. FIE Nicholas A. Curtis, Olga Pierrakos, Robin D. Anderson
2016	C	`conf`	A developmental and adaptive Problem Based Learning (PBL) model across the curriculum: From theory to practice in integrating and assessing PBL experiences across the James Madison University engineering curriculum. FIE Olga Pierrakos, Robin D. Anderson, Elise Barrella
2016	C	`conf`	How salient is the identity of engineering students? on the use of the Engineering Student Identity Survey. FIE Olga Pierrakos, Nicholas A. Curtis, Robin D. Anderson
2016	C	`conf`	National Science Foundation programs that support engineering education research. FIE Ece Yaprak, Karen Crosby, Olga Pierrakos, Abby Ilumoka, Yvette Pearson Weatherton, Elliot P. Douglas, James Moore
2016	C	`conf`	Tips for turning good ideas into competitive National Science Foundation engineering education CAREER proposals: A grant writing workshop. FIE Olga Pierrakos
2015	C	`conf`	Engineering students' motivational beliefs: Development of a scale utilizing an expectancy, value, and cost framework. FIE Mariafe T. Panizo, Casey M. Williamson, Olga Pierrakos, Robin D. Anderson, Verena Bethke, Cheryl A. Welch
2013	C	`conf`	A comprehensive ABET-focused assessment plan designed to involve all program faculty. FIE Olga Pierrakos, Heather Watson
2013	C	`conf`	An evaluation of freshman engineering persistence using Expectancy-Value Theory. FIE Cynthia A. McGrath, Kyle Gipson, Olga Pierrakos, Robert L. Nagel, Jesse Pappas, Mackenzie Peterson
2013	C	`conf`	True grit: Toward a culture of psychological preparedness in engineering education. FIE Jesse Pappas, Olga Pierrakos, Eric C. Pappas, Kurt Paterson
2012	C	`conf`	Integrating developmental instruction in four sustainability contexts into an undergraduate engineering design curriculum: Level three. FIE Eric C. Pappas, Olga Pierrakos, Robert L. Nagel
2012	C	`conf`	Qualitative inquiry of best practices and challenges faced by faculty engaged in learning through service efforts. FIE Anna Zilberberg, P. E. Nathan Canney, Olga Pierrakos, Sean McVay
2012	C	`conf`	Understanding industry experiences: From problem solving to engineering students' learning gains. FIE Jacquelyn K. S. Nagel, Olga Pierrakos, Anna Zilberberg, Sean McVay
2011	C	`conf`	Integrating developmental instruction in sustainability contexts into an undergraduate engineering design curriculum: Level two. FIE Eric C. Pappas, Olga Pierrakos

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.

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