Tak-Kei Lam

11 papers A* 1A 3Misc 1Journal 2Unranked 4

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2016	—	`conf`	Coupling reverse engineering and SAT to tackle NP-complete arithmetic circuitry verification in ∼O(# of gates). ASP-DAC Yi Diao, Xing Wei, Tak-Kei Lam, Yu-Liang Wu
2015	A	`conf`	A coupling area reduction technique applying ODC shifting. DATE Yi Diao, Tak-Kei Lam, Xing Wei, Yu-Liang Wu
2015	A	`conf`	A universal macro block mapping scheme for arithmetic circuits. DATE Xing Wei, Yi Diao, Tak-Kei Lam, Yu-Liang Wu
2014	Misc	`conf`	Delete and Correct (DaC): An Atomic Logic Operation for Removing Any Unwanted Wire. VLSID Xing Wei, Tak-Kei Lam, Xiaoqing Yang, Wai-Chung Tang, Yi Diao, Yu-Liang Wu
2014	—	`conf`	On macro-fault: a new fault model, its implications on fault tolerance and manufacturing yield. ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI Tak-Kei Lam, Xing Wei, Wen-Ben Jone, Yi Diao, Yu-Liang Wu
2012	A	`conf`	Almost every wire is removable: A modeling and solution for removing any circuit wire. DATE Xiaoqing Yang, Tak-Kei Lam, Wai-Chung Tang, Yu-Liang Wu
2012	J	`jnl`	ECR: A Powerful and Low-Complexity Error Cancellation Rewiring Scheme. ACM Trans. Design Autom. Electr. Syst. Tak-Kei Lam, Wai-Chung Tang, Xiaoqing Yang, Yu-Liang Wu
2011	J	`jnl`	On Structural Analysis and Efficiency for Graph-Based Rewiring Techniques. IEICE Trans. Fundam. Electron. Commun. Comput. Sci. Fu-Shing Chim, Tak-Kei Lam, Yu-Liang Wu, Hongbing Fan
2011	—	`conf`	On applying erroneous clock gating conditions to further cut down power. ASP-DAC Tak-Kei Lam, Xiaoqing Yang, Wai-Chung Tang, Yu-Liang Wu
2010	A*	`conf`	ECR: a low complexity generalized error cancellation rewiring scheme. DAC Xiaoqing Yang, Tak-Kei Lam, Yu-Liang Wu
2010	—	`conf`	Logic synthesis for low power using clock gating and rewiring. ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI Tak-Kei Lam, Steve Yang, Wai-Chung Tang, Yu-Liang Wu

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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