Qian Li

24 papers A* 1A 4C 1Misc 1Journal 13Unranked 4
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 A conf
CIDR
Michael Stonebraker, Xinjing Zhou, Peter Kraft, Qian Li
2025 J jnl
VLDB J.
Qian Li, Peter Kraft, Christos Kozyrakis, Matei Zaharia, Michael Stonebraker
2024 J jnl
Commun. ACM
Qian Li, Peter Kraft
2024 J jnl
ACM Queue
Qian Li, Peter Kraft
2023 J jnl
Proc. VLDB Endow.
Peter Kraft, Qian Li, Xinjing Zhou, Peter Bailis, Michael Stonebraker, Xiangyao Yu, Matei Zaharia
2023 J jnl
Proc. VLDB Endow.
Qian Li, Peter Kraft, Michael J. Cafarella, Çagatay Demiralp, Goetz Graefe, Christos Kozyrakis, Michael Stonebraker, Lalith Suresh, Xiangyao Yu, Matei Zaharia
2023 A conf
CIDR
Qian Li, Peter Kraft, Michael J. Cafarella, Çagatay Demiralp, Goetz Graefe, Christos Kozyrakis, Michael Stonebraker, Lalith Suresh, Matei Zaharia
2022 A conf
CIDR
Qian Li, Peter Kraft, Kostis Kaffes, Athinagoras Skiadopoulos, Deeptaanshu Kumar, Jason Li, Michael J. Cafarella, Goetz Graefe, Jeremy Kepner, Christos Kozyrakis, Michael Stonebraker, Lalith Suresh, Matei Zaharia
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Peter Kraft, Qian Li, Kostis Kaffes, Athinagoras Skiadopoulos, Deeptaanshu Kumar, Danny Cho, Jason Li, Robert Redmond, Nathan W. Weckwerth, Brian S. Xia, Peter Bailis, Michael J. Cafarella, Goetz Graefe, Jeremy Kepner, Christos Kozyrakis, Michael Stonebraker, Lalith Suresh, Xiangyao Yu, Matei Zaharia
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Robert Redmond, Nathan W. Weckwerth, Brian S. Xia, Qian Li, Peter Kraft, Deeptaanshu Kumar, Çagatay Demiralp, Michael Stonebraker
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Qian Li, Peter Kraft, Michael J. Cafarella, Çagatay Demiralp, Goetz Graefe, Christos Kozyrakis, Michael Stonebraker, Lalith Suresh, Matei Zaharia
2021 J jnl
Proc. VLDB Endow.
Athinagoras Skiadopoulos, Qian Li, Peter Kraft, Kostis Kaffes, Daniel Hong, Shana Mathew, David Bestor, Michael J. Cafarella, Vijay Gadepally, Goetz Graefe, Jeremy Kepner, Christos Kozyrakis, Tim Kraska, Michael Stonebraker, Lalith Suresh, Matei Zaharia
2021 — conf
Poly/DMAH@VLDB
Deeptaanshu Kumar, Qian Li, Jason Li, Peter Kraft, Athinagoras Skiadopoulos, Lalith Suresh, Michael J. Cafarella, Michael Stonebraker
2021 — conf
USENIX ATC
Francisco Romero, Qian Li, Neeraja J. Yadwadkar, Christos Kozyrakis
2021 — conf
EuroMLSys@EuroSys
Daniel Mendoza, Francisco Romero, Qian Li, Neeraja J. Yadwadkar, Christos Kozyrakis
2021 J jnl
IEEE Comput. Archit. Lett.
Qian Li, Bin Li, Pietro Mercati, Ramesh Illikkal, Charlie Tai, Michael Kishinevsky, Christos Kozyrakis
2019 A conf
HotOS
Neeraja J. Yadwadkar, Francisco Romero, Qian Li, Christos Kozyrakis
2019 — conf
USENIX ATC
Sadjad Fouladi, Francisco Romero, Dan Iter, Qian Li, Shuvo Chatterjee, Christos Kozyrakis, Matei Zaharia, Keith Winstein
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Francisco Romero, Qian Li, Neeraja J. Yadwadkar, Christos Kozyrakis
2019 J jnl
login Usenix Mag.
Sadjad Fouladi, Francisco Romero, Dan Iter, Qian Li, Alex Ozdemir, Shuvo Chatterjee, Matei Zaharia, Christos Kozyrakis, Keith Winstein
2018 A* conf
OSDI
Henry Qin, Qian Li, Jacqueline Speiser, Peter Kraft, John K. Ousterhout
2018 J jnl
ACM Trans. Embed. Comput. Syst.
Xinfeng Xie, Dayou Du, Qian Li, Yun Liang, Wai Teng Tang, Zhongliang Ong, Mian Lu, Huynh Phung Huynh, Rick Siow Mong Goh
2017 C conf
IECON
Qian Li, Qingcheng Xiao, Yun Liang
2016 Misc conf
UbiComp
Xuan Lu, Wei Ai, Xuanzhe Liu, Qian Li, Ning Wang, Gang Huang, Qiaozhu Mei

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.

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