Tarek Zaarour

11 papers A 1B 6Journal 2Unranked 2

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	B	`conf`	Intent-Based Agentic AI Framework For Data Placement in Compute Continuum. ICNP Ahmed Khalid, Ali Amin, Tarek Zaarour, Michal Sworzeniowski
2025	—	`conf`	KubeGraphBench: Benchmarking Graph Databases for Kubernetes Observability. ICKG Charles O'Brian, Tarek Zaarour, Ahmed Khalid, Ahmed H. Zahran
2025	B	`conf`	Secure Onboarding of Devices and Applications to a Smart Decentralized Ecosystem. SMARTCOMP Ali Amin, Tarek Zaarour, Ahmed Khalid, Seán Óg Murphy, Utz Roedig, Cormac J. Sreenan
2024	B	`conf`	ELEVATE: Optimal Scheduling of Time-Sensitive Tasks on the Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Edge. ICNP Ingo Hoyer, Tarek Zaarour, Ahmed Khalid, Alexander Utz, Karsten Seidl, Ken Brown, Ahmed H. Zahran
2024	B	`conf`	Safeguarding Blockchain and Dlts From Arbitrary and Malicious Content. ICNP Alan Barnett, Merry Globin, Tarek Zaarour, Sean Ahearne, Ahmed Khalid
2024	A	`conf`	Using Distributed Ledgers To Build Knowledge Graphs For Decentralized Computing Ecosystems. CIKM Tarek Zaarour, Ahmed Khalid, Preeja Pradeep, Ahmed H. Zahran
2023	B	`conf`	Foundation Data Space Models: Bridging the Artificial Intelligence and Data Ecosystems (Vision Paper). IEEE Big Data Edward Curry, Tarek Zaarour, Yang Yang, Mohan Timilsina, Majjed Al-Qatf, Rafiqul Haque
2022	J	`jnl`	OpenPubSub: Supporting Large Semantic Content Spaces in Peer-to-Peer Publish/Subscribe Systems for the Internet of Multimedia Things. IEEE Internet Things J. Tarek Zaarour, Anuraag Bhattacharya, Edward Curry
2022	J	`jnl`	SemanticPeer: A distributional semantic peer-to-peer lookup protocol for large content spaces at internet-scale. Future Gener. Comput. Syst. Tarek Zaarour, Edward Curry
2019	B	`conf`	Adaptive Filtering of Visual Content in Distributed Publish/Subscribe Systems. NCA Tarek Zaarour, Edward Curry
2017	—	`conf`	Automatic Anomaly Detection over Sliding Windows: Grand Challenge. DEBS Tarek Zaarour, Niki Pavlopoulou, Souleiman Hasan, Umair ul Hassan, Edward Curry

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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