Paul Dean

27 papers A* 1Journal 18Unranked 8
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 — conf
ACSOS-C
Paul Dean, Rajiv Ramdhany, Barry Porter
2024 — conf
ACSOS
Barry Porter, Paul Dean, Nicholas J. P. Race, Mark Lomas, Rajiv Ramdhany
2023 J jnl
Sensors
Khushboo Singh, Aparajita Bandyopadhyay, Karl Bertling, Yah Leng Lim, Tim Gillespie, Dragan Indjin, Lianhe Li, Edmund H. Linfield, A. Giles Davies, Paul Dean, Aleksandar D. Rakic, Amartya Sengupta
2021 — conf
SEAMS@ICSE
Paul Dean, Barry Porter
2020 — conf
ACSOS
Barry Porter, Roberto Rodrigues Filho, Paul Dean
2019 — conf
FAS*W@SASO/ICAC
Paul Dean
2019 J jnl
PLoS Comput. Biol.
Emma D. Wilson, Sean R. Anderson, Paul Dean, John Porrill
2017 — conf
Living Machines
Christos Kouppas, Martin J. Pearson, Paul Dean, Sean R. Anderson
2016 J jnl
Sensors
She Han, Karl Bertling, Paul Dean, James Keeley, Andrew D. Burnett, Yah Leng Lim, Suraj P. Khanna, Alexander Valavanis, Edmund H. Linfield, A. Giles Davies, Dragan Indjin, Thomas Taimre, Aleksandar D. Rakic
2016 A* conf
ICRA
Tareq Assaf, Emma D. Wilson, Sean R. Anderson, Paul Dean, John Porrill, Martin J. Pearson
2015 J jnl
PLoS Comput. Biol.
Christian Rössert, Paul Dean, John Porrill
2015 J jnl
Frontiers Neurorobotics
Emma D. Wilson, Tareq Assaf, Martin J. Pearson, Jonathan M. Rossiter, Paul Dean, Sean R. Anderson, John Porrill
2013 J jnl
Neural Networks
John Porrill, Paul Dean, Sean R. Anderson
2012 — conf
TAROS
Emma D. Wilson, Sean R. Anderson, Tareq Assaf, Martin J. Pearson, Peter Walters, Tony J. Prescott, Chris Melhuish, Jonathan Rossiter, Tony Pipe, Paul Dean, John Porrill
2010 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Robotics
Sean R. Anderson, Martin J. Pearson, Anthony G. Pipe, Tony J. Prescott, Paul Dean, John Porrill
2010 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng.
Sean R. Anderson, Nathan F. Lepora, John Porrill, Paul Dean
2010 J jnl
Frontiers Comput. Neurosci.
Nathan F. Lepora, John Porrill, Christopher H. Yeo, Paul Dean
2009 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Part B
Alexander Lenz, Sean R. Anderson, Anthony G. Pipe, Chris Melhuish, Paul Dean, John Porrill
2008 J jnl
PLoS Comput. Biol.
John Porrill, Paul Dean
2007 J jnl
PLoS Comput. Biol.
John Porrill, Paul Dean
2007 J jnl
Neural Comput.
John Porrill, Paul Dean
2007 J jnl
Biol. Cybern.
Eirini Mavritsaki, Nathan F. Lepora, John Porrill, Christopher H. Yeo, Paul Dean
2007 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng.
Sean R. Anderson, Paul Dean, Visakan Kadirkamanathan, Chris R. S. Kaneko, John Porrill
2004 J jnl
Biol. Cybern.
Paul A. Warren, John Porrill, Paul Dean
1998 J jnl
Neural Networks
Paul Dean, John Porrill
1991 — conf
NIPS
Paul Dean, John E. W. Mayhew, Pat Langdon
1991 J jnl
Biol. Cybern.
Paul Dean, John E. W. Mayhew, Neil A. Thacker, Pat Langdon

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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