Qingchun Hou

11 papers A* 2Journal 9
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 A* conf
AAAI
Haoyu Zhu, Yao Zhang, Jiashen Ren, Qingchun Hou
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Haoyu Zhu, Yao Zhang, Jiashen Ren, Qingchun Hou
2023 J jnl
Proc. IEEE
Ning Zhang, Hongyang Jia, Qingchun Hou, Ziyang Zhang, Tian Xia, Xiao Cai, Jiaxin Wang
2023 A* conf
ICLR
Qingchun Hou, Jingwei Yang, Yiqiang Su, Xiaoqing Wang, Yuming Deng
2022 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Smart Grid
Pei Yong, Ning Zhang, Yaowang Li, Qingchun Hou, Yuxiao Liu, Song Ci, Chongqing Kang
2021 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Smart Grid
Pei Yong, Ning Zhang, Qingchun Hou, Yuxiao Liu, Fei Teng, Song Ci, Chongqing Kang
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Yuxiao Liu, Ning Zhang, Qingchun Hou, Audun Botterud, Chongqing Kang
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Qingchun Hou, Ning Zhang, Daniel S. Kirschen, Ershun Du, Yaohua Cheng, Chongqing Kang
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Yanghao Yu, Qingchun Hou, Yi Ge, Guojing Liu, Ning Zhang
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Qingchun Hou, Yanghao Yu, Ershun Du, Hongjie He, Ning Zhang, Chongqing Kang, Guojing Liu, Huan Zhu
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Qingchun Hou, Ning Zhang, Ershun Du, Miao Miao, Fei Peng, Chongqing Kang

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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