Quentin Kniep

12 papers A 3Misc 1Journal 6Unranked 2

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	J	`jnl`	Mangrove: Fast and Parallelizable State Replication for Blockchains. CoRR Anton Paramonov, Yann Vonlanthen, Quentin Kniep, Jakub Sliwinski, Roger Wattenhofer
2025	A	`conf`	Pilotfish: Distributed Execution for Scalable Blockchains. FC Quentin Kniep, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Alberto Sonnino, Igor Zablotchi, Nuda Zhang
2024	A	`conf`	Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Aggregate Signatures. AsiaCCS Quentin Kniep, Roger Wattenhofer
2024	—	`conf`	Dissecting the EIP-2930 Optional Access Lists. FC (1) Lioba Heimbach, Quentin Kniep, Yann Vonlanthen, Roger Wattenhofer, Patrick Züst
2024	Misc	`conf`	Halting the Solana Blockchain with Epsilon Stake. ICDCN Jakub Sliwinski, Quentin Kniep, Roger Wattenhofer, Fabian Schaich
2024	J	`jnl`	Pilotfish: Distributed Transaction Execution for Lazy Blockchains. CoRR Quentin Kniep, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Alberto Sonnino, Igor Zablotchi, Nuda Zhang
2024	—	`conf`	Quantifying Liveness and Safety of Avalanche's Snowball. ESORICS Workshops (1) Quentin Kniep, Maxime Laval, Jakub Sliwinski, Roger Wattenhofer
2024	J	`jnl`	Quantifying Liveness and Safety of Avalanche's Snowball. CoRR Quentin Kniep, Maxime Laval, Jakub Sliwinski, Roger Wattenhofer
2024	J	`jnl`	Tyche: Collateral-Free Coalition-Resistant Multiparty Lotteries with Arbitrary Payouts. CoRR Quentin Kniep, Roger Wattenhofer
2023	A	`conf`	DeFi and NFTs Hinder Blockchain Scalability. FC Lioba Heimbach, Quentin Kniep, Yann Vonlanthen, Roger Wattenhofer
2023	J	`jnl`	DeFi and NFTs Hinder Blockchain Scalability. CoRR Lioba Heimbach, Quentin Kniep, Yann Vonlanthen, Roger Wattenhofer
2023	J	`jnl`	Dissecting the EIP-2930 Optional Access Lists. CoRR Lioba Heimbach, Quentin Kniep, Yann Vonlanthen, Roger Wattenhofer, Patrick Züst

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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