Quang Tran

11 papers Journal 7Unranked 4

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2021	J	`jnl`	LongAGE: defining breakpoints of genomic structural variants through optimal and memory efficient alignments of long reads. Bioinform. Quang Tran, Alexej Abyzov
2020	—	`conf`	Active Learning: The Almost Silver Bullet. KSE Eric Hicks, Quang Tran, Kriangsiri Malasri, Nam Sy Vo, Vinhthuy Phan
2020	—	`conf`	Analysis of Short-read Aligners using Genome Sequence Complexity. KSE Quang Tran, Nam Sy Vo, Eric Hicks, Tin Chi Nguyen, Vinhthuy Phan
2017	J	`jnl`	Using 16S rRNA gene as marker to detect unknown bacteria in microbial communities. BMC Bioinform. Quang Tran, Diem-Trang Pham, Vinhthuy Phan
2016	J	`jnl`	Analysis of optimal alignments unfolds aligners' bias in existing variant profiles. BMC Bioinform. Quang Tran, Shanshan Gao, Vinhthuy Phan
2015	J	`jnl`	A linear model for predicting performance of short-read aligners using genome complexity. BMC Bioinform. Quang Tran, Shanshan Gao, Nam S. Vo, Vinhthuy Phan
2015	J	`jnl`	How genome complexity can explain the difficulty of aligning reads to genomes. BMC Bioinform. Vinhthuy Phan, Shanshan Gao, Quang Tran, Nam S. Vo
2014	J	`jnl`	Alignment of short reads to multiple genomes using hashing. BMC Bioinform. Quang Tran, Vinhthuy Phan
2014	J	`jnl`	An integrated approach for SNP calling based on population of genomes. BMC Bioinform. Nam S. Vo, Quang Tran, Vinhthuy Phan
2014	—	`conf`	How genome complexity can explain the hardness of aligning reads to genomes. ICCABS Vinhthuy T. Phan, Shanshan Gao, Quang Tran, Nam S. Vo
2013	—	`conf`	A randomized algorithm for aligning DNA sequences to reference genomes. ICCABS Nam S. Vo, Quang Tran, Nobal B. Niraula, Vinhthuy Phan

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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