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Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	—	`ed.`	Companion Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Business: PhD Retreat, Posters & Demos Trackm (ICSOB-C 2025), Stuttgart, Germany, November 24-26, 2025. ICSOB Companion Damian Kedziora, Rodrigo Pereira dos Santos, Edona Elshan, Helena Olsson, Jan Bosch, Nirnaya Tripathi, Usman Rafiq
2025	—	`conf`	An AI-Driven Decision Support System for Product Feature Prioritization in Software Startups. ICSOB Usman Rafiq, Trygve Amundsen, Frédéric Pattyn, Xiaofeng Wang, Christoph Stöckmann
2025	J	`jnl`	Data analytics in software startups: Understanding key concepts and critical challenges. Inf. Softw. Technol. Usman Rafiq, Xiaofeng Wang, Eduardo Guerra
2025	J	`jnl`	Generative Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering - A Research Agenda. Softw. Pract. Exp. Anh Nguyen-Duc, Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel, Adam Przybylek, Chetan Arora, Dron Khanna, Tomas Herda, Usman Rafiq, Jorge Melegati, Eduardo Guerra, Kai-Kristian Kemell, Mika Saari, Zheying Zhang, Huy Le, Tho Quan, Pekka Abrahamsson
2024	—	`conf`	Smart Scaling for Software Startups Through Financial Requirements Prioritization Criteria. ICSOB Frédéric Pattyn, Usman Rafiq
2023	—	`conf`	Analytics Practices in Practice: How Software Startup Companies Are Applying Analytics? XP Workshops Usman Rafiq, Xiaofeng Wang, Luciana A. M. Zaina
2023	J	`jnl`	Generative Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering - A Research Agenda. CoRR Anh Nguyen-Duc, Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel, Adam Przybylek, Chetan Arora, Dron Khanna, Tomas Herda, Usman Rafiq, Jorge Melegati, Eduardo Guerra, Kai-Kristian Kemell, Mika Saari, Zheying Zhang, Huy Le, Tho Quan, Pekka Abrahamsson
2023	A	`conf`	How Many Papers Should You Review? A Research Synthesis of Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering. ESEM Xiaofeng Wang, Henry Edison, Dron Khanna, Usman Rafiq
2023	J	`jnl`	How Many Papers Should You Review? A Research Synthesis of Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering. CoRR Xiaofeng Wang, Henry Edison, Dron Khanna, Usman Rafiq
2023	J	`jnl`	Impact in Software Engineering Activities After One Year of COVID-19 Restrictions for Startups and Established Companies. IEEE Access Hosna Hooshyar, Eduardo Guerra, Jorge Melegati, Dron Khanna, Abdullah Aldaeej, Gerardo Matturro, Luciana A. M. Zaina, Des Greer, Usman Rafiq, Rafael Chanin, Xiaofeng Wang, Juan Garbajosa, Pekka Abrahamsson, Foutse Khomh, Anh Nguyen-Duc
2023	—	`conf`	Practitioner Views on Analytics for Software Startups: A Preliminary Guide Based on Gray Literature. ICSOB Usman Rafiq, Frédéric Pattyn, Xiaofeng Wang
2023	—	`conf`	Turning Large Language Models into AI Assistants for Startups Using Prompt Patterns. XP Workshops Xiaofeng Wang, Mohammad Idris Attal, Usman Rafiq, Sylvia Hubner-Benz
2022	—	`conf`	Exploring Analytics in Software Startups. ICSOB Companion Usman Rafiq
2022	—	`conf`	Startup Digi-Dojo: A Digital Space Supporting Practice and Research of Startup Remote Work. ICSOB Companion Xiaofeng Wang, Sylvia Hubner, Jorge Melegati, Dron Khanna, Usman Rafiq, Eduardo Martins Guerra, Daniele Morselli
2022	J	`jnl`	Towards Understanding Analytics in Software Startups. CoRR Usman Rafiq
2022	—	`conf`	Towards understanding analytics in software startups. IWSiB@ICSE Usman Rafiq
2022	B	`conf`	Understanding Low-Code or No-Code Adoption in Software Startups: Preliminary Results from a Comparative Case Study. PROFES Usman Rafiq, Cenacchi Filippo, Xiaofeng Wang
2021	A	`conf`	Analytics Mistakes that Derail Software Startups. EASE Usman Rafiq, Jorge Melegati, Dron Khanna, Eduardo Guerra, Xiaofeng Wang
2021	J	`jnl`	Business Model Canvas Should Pay More Attention to the Software Startup Team. CoRR Kai-Kristian Kemell, Atte Elonen, Mari Suoranta, Anh Nguyen-Duc, Juan Garbajosa, Rafael Chanin, Jorge Melegati, Usman Rafiq, Abdullah Aldaeej, Nana Assyne, Afonso Sales, Sami Hyrynsalmi, Juhani Risku, Henry Edison, Pekka Abrahamsson
2020	B	`conf`	Business Model Canvas Should Pay More Attention to the Software Startup Team. SEAA Kai-Kristian Kemell, Atte Elonen, Mari Suoranta, Anh Nguyen-Duc, Juan Garbajosa, Rafael Chanin, Jorge Melegati, Usman Rafiq, Abdullah Aldaeej, Nana Assyne, Afonso Sales, Sami Hyrynsalmi, Juhani Risku, Henry Edison, Pekka Abrahamsson
2020	—	`conf`	Continuous Information Monitoring in Software Startups. XP Workshops Usman Rafiq, Xiaofeng Wang
2017	B	`conf`	Requirements Elicitation Techniques Applied in Software Startups. SEAA Usman Rafiq, Sohaib Shahid Bajwa, Xiaofeng Wang, Ilaria Lunesu

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.

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.

Nicolò Altamura is not a football player. Please avoid reporting this kind of infromation.