Yadi Zhong

12 papers Journal 9Unranked 3

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	J	`jnl`	ADC-BE: Optimizing Worst-Case Bandwidth in Broadcast Encryption with Boolean Functions. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. Yadi Zhong
2025	J	`jnl`	Variables for Free: Fault Injection Attack on MAYO via Valid Solutions. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. Yadi Zhong
2023	J	`jnl`	A Comprehensive Test Pattern Generation Approach Exploiting the SAT Attack for Logic Locking. IEEE Trans. Computers Yadi Zhong, Ujjwal Guin
2023	J	`jnl`	Complexity Analysis of the SAT Attack on Logic Locking. IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. Yadi Zhong, Ujjwal Guin
2023	—	`conf`	On-Demand Device Authentication using Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Smart Systems. ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI Yadi Zhong, Joshua Hovanes, Ujjwal Guin
2022	J	`jnl`	A Comprehensive Test Pattern Generation Approach Exploiting SAT Attack for Logic Locking. CoRR Yadi Zhong, Ujjwal Guin
2022	J	`jnl`	AFIA: ATPG-Guided Fault Injection Attack on Secure Logic Locking. CoRR Yadi Zhong, Ujjwal Guin
2022	J	`jnl`	AFIA: ATPG-Guided Fault Injection Attack on Secure Logic Locking. J. Electron. Test. Yadi Zhong, Ayush Jain, M. Tanjidur Rahman, Navid Asadizanjani, Jiafeng Xie, Ujjwal Guin
2022	J	`jnl`	Beware of Discarding Used SRAMs: Information is Stored Permanently. CoRR Joshua Hovanes, Yadi Zhong, Ujjwal Guin
2022	—	`conf`	Chosen-Plaintext Attack on Energy-Efficient Hardware Implementation of GIFT-COFB. HOST Yadi Zhong, Ujjwal Guin
2022	J	`jnl`	Complexity Analysis of the SAT Attack on Logic Locking. CoRR Yadi Zhong, Ujjwal Guin
2022	—	`conf`	Fault-Injection Based Chosen-Plaintext Attacks on Multicycle AES Implementations. ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI Yadi Zhong, Ujjwal Guin

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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