Qingqing Xiong

14 papers A 1B 1C 1Misc 5Journal 3Unranked 2
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2024 Misc conf
ICMLC
Qingqing Xiong, Jinzhe Jiang, Chen Li, Xin Zhang, Yaqian Zhao
2022 J jnl
Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp.
Pouya Haghi, Anqi Guo, Qingqing Xiong, Chen Yang, Tong Geng, Justin T. Broaddus, Ryan J. Marshall, Derek Schafer, Anthony Skjellum, Martin C. Herbordt
2020 Misc conf
FCCM
Qingqing Xiong, Chen Yang, Pouya Haghi, Anthony Skjellum, Martin C. Herbordt
2020 — conf
HPEC
Pouya Haghi, Anqi Guo, Qingqing Xiong, Rushi Patel, Chen Yang, Tong Geng, Justin T. Broaddus, Ryan J. Marshall, Anthony Skjellum, Martin C. Herbordt
2019 — —
Qingqing Xiong
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Chen Yang, Tong Geng, Tianqi Wang, Rushi Patel, Qingqing Xiong, Ahmed Sanaullah, Jiayi Sheng, Charles Lin, Vipin Sachdeva, Woody Sherman, Martin C. Herbordt
2019 A conf
SC
Chen Yang, Tong Geng, Tianqi Wang, Rushi Patel, Qingqing Xiong, Ahmed Sanaullah, Chunshu Wu, Jiayi Sheng, Charles Lin, Vipin Sachdeva, Woody Sherman, Martin C. Herbordt
2019 Misc conf
FCCM
Qingqing Xiong, Rushi Patel, Chen Yang, Tong Geng, Anthony Skjellum, Martin C. Herbordt
2018 B conf
FPL
Qingqing Xiong, Anthony Skjellum, Martin C. Herbordt
2018 C conf
EuroMPI
Qingqing Xiong, Purushotham V. Bangalore, Anthony Skjellum, Martin C. Herbordt
2018 — conf
HPEC
Qingqing Xiong, Emre Ates, Martin C. Herbordt, Ayse K. Coskun
2017 Misc conf
FCCM
Qingqing Xiong, Martin C. Herbordt
2016 Misc conf
FCCM
Jiayi Sheng, Qingqing Xiong, Chen Yang, Martin C. Herbordt
2016 J jnl
SIGARCH Comput. Archit. News
Jiayi Sheng, Qingqing Xiong, Chen Yang, Martin C. Herbordt

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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