Yakun Song

19 papers A* 5A 1C 1Journal 10Unranked 2
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Yakun Song, Xiaobin Zhuang, Jiawei Chen, Zhikang Niu, Guanrou Yang, Chenpeng Du, Dongya Jia, Zhuo Chen, Yuping Wang, Yuxuan Wang, Xie Chen
2025 A* conf
AAAI
Yakun Song, Zhuo Chen, Xiaofei Wang, Ziyang Ma, Xie Chen
2025 A* conf
AAAI
Ziyang Ma, Yakun Song, Chenpeng Du, Jian Cong, Zhuo Chen, Yuping Wang, Yuxuan Wang, Xie Chen
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Yakun Song, Jiawei Chen, Xiaobin Zhuang, Chenpeng Du, Ziyang Ma, Jian Wu, Jian Cong, Dongya Jia, Zhuo Chen, Yuping Wang, Yuxuan Wang, Xie Chen
2025 — conf
ACL (Findings)
Ziyang Ma, Xiquan Li, Yakun Song, Wenxi Chen, Chenpeng Du, Jian Wu, Yuanzhe Chen, Zhuo Chen, Yuping Wang, Yuxuan Wang, Xie Chen
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Ziyang Ma, Xiquan Li, Yakun Song, Wenxi Chen, Chenpeng Du, Jian Wu, Yuanzhe Chen, Zhuo Chen, Yuping Wang, Yuxuan Wang, Xie Chen
2024 A* conf
NeurIPS
Minjie Wang, Quan Gan, David Wipf, Zheng Zhang, Christos Faloutsos, Weinan Zhang, Muhan Zhang, Zhenkun Cai, Jiahang Li, Zunyao Mao, Yakun Song, Jianheng Tang, Yanlin Zhang, Guang Yang, Chuan Lei, Xiao Qin, Ning Li, Han Zhang, Yanbo Wang, Zizhao Zhang
2024 — conf
VLDB Workshops
Minjie Wang, Quan Gan, David Wipf, Zhenkun Cai, Ning Li, Jianheng Tang, Yanlin Zhang, Zizhao Zhang, Zunyao Mao, Yakun Song, Yanbo Wang, Jiahang Li, Han Zhang, Guang Yang, Xiao Qin, Chuan Lei, Muhan Zhang, Weinan Zhang, Christos Faloutsos, Zheng Zhang
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Minjie Wang, Quan Gan, David Wipf, Zhenkun Cai, Ning Li, Jianheng Tang, Yanlin Zhang, Zizhao Zhang, Zunyao Mao, Yakun Song, Yanbo Wang, Jiahang Li, Han Zhang, Guang Yang, Xiao Qin, Chuan Lei, Muhan Zhang, Weinan Zhang, Christos Faloutsos, Zheng Zhang
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Yakun Song, Zhuo Chen, Xiaofei Wang, Ziyang Ma, Xie Chen
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Ziyang Ma, Yakun Song, Chenpeng Du, Jian Cong, Zhuo Chen, Yuping Wang, Yuxuan Wang, Xie Chen
2024 A conf
INTERSPEECH
Yakun Song, Zhuo Chen, Xiaofei Wang, Ziyang Ma, Guanrou Yang, Xie Chen
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Yakun Song, Zhuo Chen, Xiaofei Wang, Ziyang Ma, Guanrou Yang, Xie Chen
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Guanrou Yang, Ziyang Ma, Zhisheng Zheng, Yakun Song, Zhikang Niu, Xie Chen
2023 C conf
ASRU
Guanrou Yang, Ziyang Ma, Zhisheng Zheng, Yakun Song, Zhikang Niu, Xie Chen
2023 A* conf
ICML
Jiahang Li, Yakun Song, Xiang Song, David Wipf
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Jiahang Li, Yakun Song, Xiang Song, David Paul Wipf
2023 A* conf
AAAI
Xianyu Chen, Jian Shen, Wei Xia, Jiarui Jin, Yakun Song, Weinan Zhang, Weiwen Liu, Menghui Zhu, Ruiming Tang, Kai Dong, Dingyin Xia, Yong Yu
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Xianyu Chen, Jian Shen, Wei Xia, Jiarui Jin, Yakun Song, Weinan Zhang, Weiwen Liu, Menghui Zhu, Ruiming Tang, Kai Dong, Dingyin Xia, Yong Yu

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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