Qian Yu

39 papers A* 1A 1B 9Misc 2Journal 21Unranked 5
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory
Qian Yu, Yury Polyanskiy
2022 — conf
MLSys
Jinhyun So, Corey J. Nolet, Chien-Sheng Yang, Songze Li, Qian Yu, Ramy E. Ali, Basak Guler, Salman Avestimehr
2021 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Commun.
Qian Yu, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Chien-Sheng Yang, Jinhyun So, Chaoyang He, Songze Li, Qian Yu, Salman Avestimehr
2020 B conf
ISIT
Qian Yu, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Qian Yu, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2020 A* conf
NeurIPS
Lin Chen, Qian Yu, Hannah Lawrence, Amin Karbasi
2020 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory
Qian Yu, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2019 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory
Qian Yu, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2019 B conf
ISIT
Netanel Raviv, Qian Yu, Jehoshua Bruck, Salman Avestimehr
2019 B conf
ISIT
Qian Yu, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Qian Yu, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2019 A conf
AISTATS
Qian Yu, Songze Li, Netanel Raviv, Seyed Mohammadreza Mousavi Kalan, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Lin Chen, Qian Yu, Hannah Lawrence, Amin Karbasi
2018 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory
Songze Li, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Qian Yu, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2018 B conf
ITW
Qian Yu, Netanel Raviv, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Qian Yu, Netanel Raviv, Jinhyun So, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Songze Li, Seyed Mohammadreza Mousavi Kalan, Qian Yu, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2018 B conf
ISIT
Qian Yu, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Qian Yu, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2018 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory
Qian Yu, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2017 J jnl
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw.
Songze Li, Qian Yu, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2017 J jnl
CoRR
Qian Yu, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2017 B conf
ISIT
Qian Yu, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2017 J jnl
CoRR
Qian Yu, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2017 — conf
Allerton
Qian Yu, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2017 B conf
ITW
Qian Yu, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2017 J jnl
CoRR
Qian Yu, Songze Li, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2017 — conf
ICC
Qian Yu, Songze Li, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2017 — conf
NIPS
Qian Yu, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Salman Avestimehr
2017 J jnl
CoRR
Qian Yu, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2017 B conf
ISIT
Qian Yu, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2016 J jnl
CoRR
Songze Li, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Qian Yu, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2016 J jnl
CoRR
Songze Li, Qian Yu, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2016 Misc conf
ACSSC
Songze Li, Qian Yu, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2016 B conf
GLOBECOM
Songze Li, Qian Yu, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2016 Misc conf
SEC
Songze Li, Qian Yu, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2016 J jnl
CoRR
Qian Yu, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Amir Salman Avestimehr
2015 — conf
VTC Fall
Qian Yu, Muriel Médard

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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