Safdar Ali

17 papers Journal 15Unranked 2
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
ICT Express
Darakhshan Syed, Ghulam Muhammad, Safdar Ali
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Asifullah Khan, Anabia Sohail, Mustansar Fiaz, Mehdi Hassan, Tariq Habib Afridi, Sibghat Ullah Marwat, Farzeen Munir, Safdar Ali, Hannan Naseem, Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer, Kamran Ali, Tangina Sultana, ZiaurRehman Tanoli, Naeem Akhter
2023 J jnl
Multim. Tools Appl.
Ghulam Murtaza, Raheel Ahmed Memon, Safdar Ali, Nura Modi Shagari, Javed Ali
2022 J jnl
J. King Saud Univ. Comput. Inf. Sci.
Mehdi Hassan, Safdar Ali, Hani Alquhayz, Jin Young Kim, Muhammad Sanaullah
2022 J jnl
PeerJ Comput. Sci.
Mehdi Hassan, Safdar Ali, Muhammad Saleem, Muhammad Sanaullah, Labiba Gillani Fahad, Jin Young Kim, Hani Alquhayz, Syed Fahad Tahir
2022 — conf
IC3I
Mohammed E. Seno, Areej Adnan Abed, Yousif Ahmed Hamad, Sumit Pundir, Arun Pratap Srivastava, Safdar Ali
2022 J jnl
IEEE Access
Muhammad Hussain Mughal, Zubair Ahmed Shaikh, Khurshed Ali, Safdar Ali, Saif Hassan
2021 J jnl
Int. J. Imaging Syst. Technol.
Safdar Ali, Mehdi Hassan, Muhammad Saleem, Syed Fahad Tahir
2021 J jnl
Commun. Nonlinear Sci. Numer. Simul.
Muhammad Younis, Safdar Ali, Syed Tahir Raza Rizvi, Mohammad Tantawy, Kalim U. Tariq, Ahmet Bekir
2019 J jnl
Comput. Methods Programs Biomed.
Mehdi Hassan, Iqbal Murtza, Aysha Hira, Safdar Ali, Kashif Kifayat
2016 J jnl
Cogn. Comput.
Syed Gibran Javed, Abdul Majid, Safdar Ali, Nabeela Kausar
2016 J jnl
Comput. Biol. Medicine
Safdar Ali, Abdul Majid, Syed Gibran Javed, Mohsin Sattar
2015 J jnl
Appl. Math. Comput.
Muhammad Younis, Syed Tahir Raza Rizvi, Safdar Ali
2015 J jnl
J. Biomed. Informatics
Safdar Ali, Abdul Majid
2014 J jnl
Comput. Methods Programs Biomed.
Abdul Majid, Safdar Ali, Mubashar Iqbal, Nabeela Kausar
2014 J jnl
Appl. Math. Comput.
Muhammad Younis, Safdar Ali
2010 — conf
ICITST
Safdar Ali, Waseem Shahzad, Farrukh Aslam Khan

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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