Ran Tao

33 papers A* 9A 3Journal 19Unranked 1
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.
Hao Chen, Zihan Wang, Ran Tao, Hongxin Wei, Xing Xie, Masashi Sugiyama, Bhiksha Raj, Jindong Wang
2024 — conf
CVPR Workshops
Hao Chen, Ran Tao, Han Zhang, Yidong Wang, Xiang Li, Wei Ye, Jindong Wang, Guosheng Hu, Marios Savvides
2024 J jnl
SIAM J. Comput.
Mika Göös, Alexandros Hollender, Siddhartha Jain, Gilbert Maystre, William Pires, Robert Robere, Ran Tao
2024 A* conf
NeurIPS
Hao Chen, Ankit Shah, Jindong Wang, Ran Tao, Yidong Wang, Xiang Li, Xing Xie, Masashi Sugiyama, Rita Singh, Bhiksha Raj
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Hao Chen, Jindong Wang, Zihan Wang, Ran Tao, Hongxin Wei, Xing Xie, Masashi Sugiyama, Bhiksha Raj
2024 J jnl
J. ACM
Mika Göös, Alexandros Hollender, Siddhartha Jain, Gilbert Maystre, William Pires, Robert Robere, Ran Tao
2024 — —
Ran Tao
2024 A* conf
ICLR
Hao Chen, Jindong Wang, Ankit Shah, Ran Tao, Hongxin Wei, Xing Xie, Masashi Sugiyama, Bhiksha Raj
2023 A* conf
CVPR
Ran Tao, Hao Chen, Marios Savvides
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Hao Chen, Ankit Shah, Jindong Wang, Ran Tao, Yidong Wang, Xing Xie, Masashi Sugiyama, Rita Singh, Bhiksha Raj
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Hao Chen, Ran Tao, Yue Fan, Yidong Wang, Jindong Wang, Bernt Schiele, Xing Xie, Bhiksha Raj, Marios Savvides
2023 A* conf
ICLR
Hao Chen, Ran Tao, Yue Fan, Yidong Wang, Jindong Wang, Bernt Schiele, Xing Xie, Bhiksha Raj, Marios Savvides
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Hao Chen, Jindong Wang, Ankit Shah, Ran Tao, Hongxin Wei, Xing Xie, Masashi Sugiyama, Bhiksha Raj
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Hao Chen, Ran Tao, Han Zhang, Yidong Wang, Wei Ye, Jindong Wang, Guosheng Hu, Marios Savvides
2022 A conf
CCC
Mika Göös, Alexandros Hollender, Siddhartha Jain, Gilbert Maystre, William Pires, Robert Robere, Ran Tao
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Mika Göös, Alexandros Hollender, Siddhartha Jain, Gilbert Maystre, William Pires, Robert Robere, Ran Tao
2022 J jnl
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex.
Mika Göös, Alexandros Hollender, Siddhartha Jain, Gilbert Maystre, William Pires, Robert Robere, Ran Tao
2022 A conf
APPROX/RANDOM
Hamed Hatami, Pooya Hatami, William Pires, Ran Tao, Rosie Zhao
2022 J jnl
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex.
Hamed Hatami, Pooya Hatami, William Pires, Ran Tao, Rosie Zhao
2022 J jnl
Inf. Process. Lett.
Ben Davis, Hamed Hatami, William Pires, Ran Tao, Hamza Usmani
2022 A* conf
AAAI
Ran Tao, Han Zhang, Yutong Zheng, Marios Savvides
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Ran Tao, Han Zhang, Yutong Zheng, Marios Savvides
2022 A* conf
FOCS
Mika Göös, Alexandros Hollender, Siddhartha Jain, Gilbert Maystre, William Pires, Robert Robere, Ran Tao
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Mika Göös, Alexandros Hollender, Siddhartha Jain, Gilbert Maystre, William Pires, Robert Robere, Ran Tao
2022 J jnl
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex.
Mika Göös, Alexandros Hollender, Siddhartha Jain, Gilbert Maystre, William Pires, Robert Robere, Ran Tao
2022 A* conf
NeurIPS
Yidong Wang, Hao Chen, Yue Fan, Wang Sun, Ran Tao, Wenxin Hou, Renjie Wang, Linyi Yang, Zhi Zhou, Lan-Zhe Guo, Heli Qi, Zhen Wu, Yufeng Li, Satoshi Nakamura, Wei Ye, Marios Savvides, Bhiksha Raj, Takahiro Shinozaki, Bernt Schiele, Jindong Wang, Xing Xie, Yue Zhang
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Yidong Wang, Hao Chen, Yue Fan, Wang Sun, Ran Tao, Wenxin Hou, Renjie Wang, Linyi Yang, Zhi Zhou, Lan-Zhe Guo, Heli Qi, Zhen Wu, Yufeng Li, Satoshi Nakamura, Wei Ye, Marios Savvides, Bhiksha Raj, Takahiro Shinozaki, Bernt Schiele, Jindong Wang, Xing Xie, Yue Zhang
2021 J jnl
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex.
Ben Davis, Hamed Hatami, William Pires, Ran Tao, Hamza Usmani
2021 A* conf
CVPR
Yutong Zheng, Yu-Kai Huang, Ran Tao, Zhiqiang Shen, Marios Savvides
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Yutong Zheng, Yu-Kai Huang, Ran Tao, Zhiqiang Shen, Marios Savvides
2019 A conf
WACV
Dipan K. Pal, Chandrasekhar Bhagavatula, Yutong Zheng, Ran Tao, Marios Savvides
2018 A* conf
CVPR
Chenchen Zhu, Ran Tao, Khoa Luu, Marios Savvides
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Chenchen Zhu, Ran Tao, Khoa Luu, Marios Savvides

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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