Sameh Attia

11 papers A 1C 1Misc 1Journal 5Unranked 3

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2023	J	`jnl`	Toward Software-like Debugging for FPGAs via Checkpointing and Transaction-based Co-Simulation. ACM Trans. Reconfigurable Technol. Syst. Sameh Attia, Vaughn Betz
2022	J	`jnl`	Stop and Look: A Novel Checkpointing and Debugging Flow for FPGAs. IEEE Trans. Computers Sameh Attia, Vaughn Betz
2021	—	`conf`	StateLink: FPGA System Debugging via Flexible Simulation/Hardware Integration. FPT Sameh Attia, Vaughn Betz
2020	J	`jnl`	Feel Free to Interrupt: Safe Task Stopping to Enable FPGA Checkpointing and Context Switching. ACM Trans. Reconfigurable Technol. Syst. Sameh Attia, Vaughn Betz
2020	A	`conf`	StateMover: Combining Simulation and Hardware Execution for Efficient FPGA Debugging. FPGA Sameh Attia, Vaughn Betz
2020	—	`conf`	StateReveal: Enabling Checkpointing of FPGA Designs with Buried State. FPT Sameh Attia, Vaughn Betz
2019	Misc	`conf`	Safe Task Interruption for FPGAs. FCCM Sameh Attia, Vaughn Betz
2018	J	`jnl`	Dual Split-Merge: A high throughput router architecture for FPGAs. Microelectron. J. Khaled A. Helal, Sameh Attia, Hossam A. H. Fahmy, Tawfik Ismail, Yehea Ismail, Hassan Mostafa
2018	J	`jnl`	Optimizing FPGA-based hard networks-on-chip by minimizing and sharing resources. Integr. Sameh Attia, Hossam A. H. Fahmy, Yehea Ismail, Hassan Mostafa
2015	C	`conf`	Comparative review of NoCs in the context of ASICs and FPGAs. ISCAS Khaled A. Helal, Sameh Attia, Tawfik Ismail, Hassan Mostafa
2015	—	`conf`	Priority-select arbiter: An efficient round-robin arbiter. NEWCAS Khaled A. Helal, Sameh Attia, Tawfik Ismail, Hassan Mostafa

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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