Otso Kassinen

20 papers B 6C 1Misc 1Journal 5Unranked 7
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2013 J jnl
ACM Comput. Surv.
Timo Koskela, Otso Kassinen, Erkki Harjula, Mika Ylianttila
2012 — conf
CCNC
Erkki Harjula, Otso Kassinen, Mika Ylianttila
2011 C conf
ISCC
Timo Koskela, Erkki Harjula, Otso Kassinen, Mika Ylianttila
2011 Misc conf
TRIDENTCOM
Otso Kassinen, Erkki Harjula, Mika Ylianttila
2010 B conf
GLOBECOM
Otso Kassinen, Erkki Harjula, Mika Ylianttila
2010 J jnl
Int. J. Web Appl.
Timo Koskela, Otso Kassinen, Erkki Harjula, Jani Pellikka, Mika Ylianttila
2010 J jnl
Comput. Networks
Zhonghong Ou, Erkki Harjula, Otso Kassinen, Mika Ylianttila
2010 J jnl
J. Digit. Content Technol. its Appl.
Timo Koskela, Janne Julkunen, Otso Kassinen, Mika Ylianttila
2009 J jnl
J. Mobile Multimedia
Otso Kassinen, Timo Koskela, Erkki Harjula, Jukka Riekki, Mika Ylianttila
2009 B conf
PIMRC
Otso Kassinen, Erkki Harjula, Jari Korhonen, Mika Ylianttila
2009 — conf
Mobility Conference
Zhonghong Ou, Erkki Harjula, Otso Kassinen, Mika Ylianttila
2008 B conf
MUM
Otso Kassinen, Zhonghong Ou, Mika Ylianttila, Erkki Harjula
2008 — conf
SERVICES II
Mika Ylianttila, Erkki Harjula, Timo Koskela, Otso Kassinen, Jukka Riekki
2008 — conf
Mobility Conference
Timo Koskela, Otso Kassinen, Jari Korhonen, Zhonghong Ou, Mika Ylianttila
2007 — conf
CTTE
Nonna Kostamo, Otso Kassinen, Timo Koskela, Mika Ylianttila
2007 B conf
MUM
Timo Koskela, Otso Kassinen, Jussi Ala-Kurikka, Mika Ylianttila
2007 — conf
ICE-B
Nonna Kostamo, Otso Kassinen, Timo Koskela, Mika Ylianttila
2007 — conf
CCNC
Otso Kassinen, Mika Ylianttila, Jun-Zhao Sun, Jussi Ala-Kurikka
2006 B conf
PIMRC
Juuso Ohtonen, Otso Kassinen, Mika Ylianttila
2005 B conf
MUM
Otso Kassinen, Timo Koskela, Erkki Harjula, Jussi Ala-Kurikka, Petri Pohjanen, Mika Ylianttila

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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