Ursula Pieper

16 papers Journal 16
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2015 J jnl
PLoS Comput. Biol.
Jeffrey R. Johnson, Silvia D. Santos, Tasha Johnson, Ursula Pieper, Marta Strumillo, Omar Wagih, Andrej Sali, Nevan J. Krogan, Pedro Beltrão
2014 J jnl
Nucleic Acids Res.
Ursula Pieper, Benjamin M. Webb, Guang Qiang Dong, Dina Schneidman-Duhovny, Hao Fan, Seung Joong Kim, Natalia Khuri, Yannick G. Spill, Patrick Weinkam, Michal Hammel, John A. Tainer, Michael Nilges, Andrej Sali
2013 J jnl
PLoS Comput. Biol.
Francisco Martínez-Jiménez, George Papadatos, Lun Yang, Iain M. Wallace, Vinod Kumar, Ursula Pieper, Andrej Sali, James R. Brown, John P. Overington, Marc A. Martí-Renom
2012 J jnl
Bioinform.
Hannes Braberg, Benjamin M. Webb, Elina Tjioe, Ursula Pieper, Andrej Sali, Mallur S. Madhusudhan
2011 J jnl
Nucleic Acids Res.
Ursula Pieper, Benjamin M. Webb, David T. Barkan, Dina Schneidman-Duhovny, Avner Schlessinger, Hannes Braberg, Zheng Yang, Elaine C. Meng, Eric F. Pettersen, Conrad C. Huang, Ruchira S. Datta, Parthasarathy Sampathkumar, Mallur S. Madhusudhan, Kimmen Sjölander, Thomas E. Ferrin, Stephen K. Burley, Andrej Sali
2010 J jnl
Bioinform.
David T. Barkan, Daniel R. Hostetter, Sami Mahrus, Ursula Pieper, James A. Wells, Charles S. Craik, Andrej Sali
2009 J jnl
Nucleic Acids Res.
Ursula Pieper, Narayanan Eswar, Ben M. Webb, David Eramian, Libusha Kelly, David T. Barkan, Hannah Carter, Parminder Mankoo, Rachel Karchin, Marc A. Martí-Renom, Fred P. Davis, Andrej Sali
2007 J jnl
Nucleic Acids Res.
Marc A. Martí-Renom, Ursula Pieper, Mallur S. Madhusudhan, Andrea Rossi, Narayanan Eswar, Fred P. Davis, Fátima Al-Shahrour, Joaquín Dopazo, Andrej Sali
2007 J jnl
BMC Bioinform.
Marc A. Martí-Renom, Andrea Rossi, Fátima Al-Shahrour, Fred P. Davis, Ursula Pieper, Joaquín Dopazo, Andrej Sali
2006 J jnl
Nucleic Acids Res.
Ursula Pieper, Narayanan Eswar, Fred P. Davis, Hannes Braberg, Mallur S. Madhusudhan, Andrea Rossi, Marc A. Martí-Renom, Rachel Karchin, Ben M. Webb, David Eramian, Min-Yi Shen, Libusha Kelly, Francisco Melo, Andrej Sali
2005 J jnl
Bioinform.
Rachel Karchin, Mark Diekhans, Libusha Kelly, Daryl J. Thomas, Ursula Pieper, Narayanan Eswar, David Haussler, Andrej Sali
2004 J jnl
Nucleic Acids Res.
Ursula Pieper, Narayanan Eswar, Hannes Braberg, Mallur S. Madhusudhan, Fred P. Davis, Ashley C. Stuart, Nebojsa Mirkovic, Andrea Rossi, Marc A. Martí-Renom, András Fiser, Ben M. Webb, Daniel M. Greenblatt, Conrad C. Huang, Thomas E. Ferrin, Andrej Sali
2003 J jnl
Bioinform.
Valentin A. Ilyin, Ursula Pieper, Ashley C. Stuart, Marc A. Martí-Renom, Linda McMahan, Andrej Sali
2003 J jnl
Nucleic Acids Res.
Narayanan Eswar, Bino John, Nebojsa Mirkovic, András Fiser, Valentin A. Ilyin, Ursula Pieper, Ashley C. Stuart, Marc A. Martí-Renom, Mallur S. Madhusudhan, Bozidar Yerkovich, Andrej Sali
2002 J jnl
Nucleic Acids Res.
Ursula Pieper, Narayanan Eswar, Ashley C. Stuart, Valentin A. Ilyin, Andrej Sali
2000 J jnl
Nucleic Acids Res.
Roberto Sánchez, Ursula Pieper, Nebojsa Mirkovic, Paul I. W. de Bakker, Edward Wittenstein, Andrej Sali

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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