R. Ian Bull

12 papers A* 1A 3Misc 1Unranked 6

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2010	A	`conf`	Connecting Traces: Understanding Client-Server Interactions in Ajax Applications. ICPC Nick Matthijssen, Andy Zaidman, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, R. Ian Bull, Arie van Deursen
2009	Misc	`conf`	Creating Visualizations through Ontology Mapping. CISIS Sean M. Falconer, R. Ian Bull, Lars Grammel, Margaret-Anne D. Storey
2008	—	`conf`	CSMR Tool Demonstration: Welcome. CSMR R. Ian Bull
2008	—	`—`	Model driven visualization: towards a model driven engineering approach for information visualization. R. Ian Bull
2008	A*	`conf`	TODO or to bug: exploring how task annotations play a role in the work practices of software developers. ICSE Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Jody Ryall, R. Ian Bull, Del Myers, Janice Singer
2006	A	`conf`	An Architecture to Support Model Driven Software Visualization. ICPC R. Ian Bull, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Jean-Marie Favre, Marin Litoiu
2006	—	`conf`	Integrating dynamic views using model driven development. CASCON R. Ian Bull
2006	A	`conf`	Shared waypoints and social tagging to support collaboration in software development. CSCW Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Li-Te Cheng, R. Ian Bull, Peter C. Rigby
2006	—	`conf`	Waypointing and social tagging to support program navigation. CHI Extended Abstracts Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Li-Te Cheng, R. Ian Bull, Peter C. Rigby
2005	—	`conf`	Visualization in the Context of Model Driven Engineering. MDDAUI@MoDELS R. Ian Bull, Jean-Marie Favre
2004	—	`conf`	Advanced widgets for Eclipse. eTX R. Ian Bull, Casey Best, Margaret-Anne D. Storey
2002	—	`conf`	Semantic Grep: Regular Expressions + Relational Abstraction. WCRE R. Ian Bull, Andrew Trevors, Andrew J. Malton, Michael W. Godfrey

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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