Owen Howell

13 papers A* 2Journal 11
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Owen Howell, Linfeng Zhao, Xupeng Zhu, Yaoyao Qian, Haojie Huang, Lingfeng Sun, Wil Thomason, Robert Platt, Robin Walters
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Haibo Zhao, Yu Qi, Boce Hu, Yizhe Zhu, Ziyan Chen, Heng Tian, Xupeng Zhu, Owen Howell, Haojie Huang, Robin Walters, Dian Wang, Robert Platt
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Haibo Zhao, Dian Wang, Yizhe Zhu, Xupeng Zhu, Owen Howell, Linfeng Zhao, Yaoyao Qian, Robin Walters, Robert Platt
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Paul Ghanem, Michael Potter, Owen Howell, Pau Closas, Alireza Ramezani, Deniz Erdogmus, Tales Imbiriba
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Linfeng Zhao, Owen Howell, Xupeng Zhu, Jung Yeon Park, Zhewen Zhang, Robin Walters, Lawson L. S. Wong
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Arsh Tangri, Ondrej Biza, Dian Wang, David Klee, Owen Howell, Robert Platt
2024 A* conf
ICLR
Haojie Huang, Owen Howell, Dian Wang, Xupeng Zhu, Robert Platt, Robin Walters
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Haojie Huang, Owen Howell, Xupeng Zhu, Dian Wang, Robin Walters, Robert Platt
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Linfeng Zhao, Owen Howell, Jung Yeon Park, Xupeng Zhu, Robin Walters, Lawson L. S. Wong
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Owen Howell, David Klee, Ondrej Biza, Linfeng Zhao, Robin Walters
2023 A* conf
NeurIPS
Owen Howell, David Klee, Ondrej Biza, Linfeng Zhao, Robin Walters
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Owen Howell, Haoen Huang, David Rosen
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Owen Howell, Cui Wenping, Robert Marsland III, Pankaj Mehta

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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