Samantha N. Stahlke

11 papers A* 1Misc 3Journal 4Unranked 3

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	J	`jnl`	Redesigning Success: How Post-Growth Economics Can Reshape the Games Industry. Interactions Samantha N. Stahlke, Tanner Mirrlees, Pejman Mirza-Babaei
2025	J	`jnl`	The Inhuman Element: Lessons on Play and Creativity from the Rise of Generative AI. Interactions Samantha N. Stahlke
2020	A*	`conf`	A Postmortem on Playtesting: Exploring the Impact of Playtesting on the Critical Reception of Video Games. CHI Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Samantha N. Stahlke, Günter Wallner, Atiya Nova
2020	Misc	`conf`	Artificial Players in the Design Process: Developing an Automated Testing Tool for Game Level and World Design. CHI PLAY Samantha N. Stahlke, Atiya Nova, Pejman Mirza-Babaei
2020	—	`conf`	Games and Play SIG: Shaping the Next Decade of Games & HCI Research. CHI Extended Abstracts Samantha N. Stahlke, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Kathrin Gerling, Phoebe O. Toups Dugas, Daniel Johnson, Regan L. Mandryk
2019	—	`conf`	Artificial Playfulness: A Tool for Automated Agent-Based Playtesting. CHI Extended Abstracts Samantha N. Stahlke, Atiya Nova, Pejman Mirza-Babaei
2018	—	`conf`	Chromotype: A Computer-Assisted Design Tool for Palette Generation. CHI Extended Abstracts Samantha N. Stahlke, Loutfouz Zaman
2018	J	`jnl`	The Fall of the Fourth Wall: Designing and Evaluating Interactive Spectator Experiences. Int. J. Gaming Comput. Mediat. Simulations Samantha N. Stahlke, James Robb, Pejman Mirza-Babaei
2018	J	`jnl`	Usertesting Without the User: Opportunities and Challenges of an AI-Driven Approach in Games User Research. Comput. Entertain. Samantha N. Stahlke, Pejman Mirza-Babaei
2015	Misc	`conf`	CHI PLAYGUE: A Networking Game of Emergent Sociality. CHI PLAY Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Rina R. Wehbe, Samantha N. Stahlke, Amanda Leo, Rylan Koroluk, Lennart E. Nacke
2015	Misc	`conf`	Validating Test Chambers to Study Cooperative Communication Mechanics in Portal 2. CHI PLAY Deepika Vaddi, Rina R. Wehbe, Phoebe O. Toups Dugas, Samantha N. Stahlke, Rylan Koroluk, Lennart E. Nacke

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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