Rami Sheikh

12 papers A* 5C 2Journal 3Unranked 2

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2023	A*	`conf`	Branch Target Buffer Organizations. MICRO Arthur Perais, Rami Sheikh
2019	A*	`conf`	Efficient Load Value Prediction Using Multiple Predictors and Filters. HPCA Rami Sheikh, Derek Hower
2019	A*	`conf`	Elastic Instruction Fetching. HPCA Arthur Perais, Rami Sheikh, Luke Yen, Michael McIlvaine, Robert D. Clancy
2018	J	`jnl`	Improving Performance and Mitigating Fault Attacks Using Value Prediction. Cryptogr. Rami Sheikh, Rosario Cammarota
2018	C	`conf`	SPF: Selective Pipeline Flush. ICCD Vignyan Reddy Kothinti Naresh, Rami Sheikh, Arthur Perais, Harold W. Cain
2018	—	`conf`	VPsec: countering fault attacks in general purpose microprocessors with value prediction. CF Rosario Cammarota, Rami Sheikh
2018	—	`conf`	Value prediction for security (VPsec): Countering fault attacks in modern microprocessors. HOST Rami Sheikh, Ro Cammarota, Wenjia Ruan
2017	A*	`conf`	Load value prediction via path-based address prediction: avoiding mispredictions due to conflicting stores. MICRO Rami Sheikh, Harold W. Cain, Raguram Damodaran
2015	J	`jnl`	Control-Flow Decoupling: An Approach for Timely, Non-Speculative Branching. IEEE Trans. Computers Rami Sheikh, James Tuck, Eric Rotenberg
2014	J	`jnl`	LACS: A Locality-Aware Cost-Sensitive Cache Replacement Algorithm. IEEE Trans. Computers Mazen Kharbutli, Rami Sheikh
2012	A*	`conf`	Control-Flow Decoupling. MICRO Rami Sheikh, James Tuck, Eric Rotenberg
2010	C	`conf`	Improving cache performance by combining cost-sensitivity and locality principles in cache replacement algorithms. ICCD Rami Sheikh, Mazen Kharbutli

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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