Sampo Sovio

13 papers B 1C 1Misc 1Journal 5Unranked 5
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 — conf
ISQED
Joonas Ahola, Sampo Sovio, Jan-Erik Ekberg
2025 — conf
ESORICS Workshops (3)
Gizem Akman, Philip Ginzboorg, Sampo Sovio, Valtteri Niemi
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Varun Gadey, Raphael Götz, Christoph Sendner, Sampo Sovio, Alexandra Dmitrienko
2022 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Qiming Li, Sampo Sovio
2022 Misc conf
FRUCT
Arto Niemi, Sampo Sovio, Jan-Erik Ekberg
2022 B conf
TrustCom
Vladimir Ushakov, Sampo Sovio, Qingchao Qi, Vijayanand Nayani, Valentin Manea, Philip Ginzboorg, Jan-Erik Ekberg
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Vladimir Ushakov, Sampo Sovio, Qingchao Qi, Vijayanand Nayani, Valentin Manea, Philip Ginzboorg, Jan-Erik Ekberg
2021 — conf
NordSec
Cesar Pereida García, Sampo Sovio
2021 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Cesar Pereida García, Sampo Sovio
2010 C conf
ICICS
Billy Bob Brumley, Risto M. Hakala, Kaisa Nyberg, Sampo Sovio
2009 — conf
ISSE
Endre Bangerter, Manuel Barbosa, Daniel J. Bernstein, Ivan Damgård, Daniel Page, Jakob Illeborg Pagter, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Sampo Sovio
2007 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Mag.
Sasu Tarkoma, Christian Prehofer, Sampo Sovio, Pekka Laitinen
2003 — conf
SAINT Workshops
Sampo Sovio, N. Asokan, Kaisa Nyberg

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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