Sam Safavi

23 papers A* 2B 1C 1Misc 2Journal 14Unranked 3
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Surjyendu Ray, Bei Jia, Sam Safavi, Tim van Opijnen, Ralph Isberg, Jason Rosch, José Bento
2019 A* conf
ICML
Sam Safavi, José Bento
2018 B conf
ISIT
Sam Safavi, Bikash Joshi, Guilherme França, José Bento
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Sam Safavi, Bikash Joshi, Guilherme França, José Bento
2018 J jnl
Proc. IEEE
Sam Safavi, Usman A. Khan, Soummya Kar, José M. F. Moura
2018 A* conf
NeurIPS
Bei Jia, Surjyendu Ray, Sam Safavi, José Bento
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Bei Jia, Surjyendu Ray, Sam Safavi, José Bento
2018 — conf
SSP
Sam Safavi, Usman A. Khan, Soummya Kar, José M. F. Moura
2018 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Signal Inf. Process. over Networks
Sam Safavi, Usman A. Khan
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Sam Safavi, Usman A. Khan, Soummya Kar, José M. F. Moura
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Sam Safavi, José Bento
2017 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Robotics
Sam Safavi, Usman A. Khan
2017 J jnl
CoRR
Sam Safavi, Usman A. Khan
2017 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Autom. Control.
Sam Safavi, Usman A. Khan
2016 Misc conf
ACSSC
Sam Safavi, Usman A. Khan
2016 — conf
CDC
Sam Safavi, Usman A. Khan
2016 C conf
ACC
Sam Safavi, Usman A. Khan
2015 — conf
DSP
Sam Safavi, Usman A. Khan
2015 J jnl
IEEE Signal Process. Lett.
Sam Safavi, Usman A. Khan
2015 J jnl
CoRR
Sam Safavi, Usman A. Khan
2015 J jnl
IEEE Signal Process. Lett.
Sam Safavi, Usman A. Khan
2014 J jnl
CoRR
Sam Safavi, Usman A. Khan
2014 Misc conf
ACSSC
Sam Safavi, Usman A. 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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