Yan Dai

12 papers A* 3Journal 7Unranked 2
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Comput. Soc. Syst.
Wei Zhang, Tingting Liu, Ziming Li, Yan Dai, Xu Zhou
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Multim.
Yan Dai, Beitao Chen, Lianli Gao, Jingkuan Song, Heng Tao Shen
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst.
Yan Dai, Xuanhan Wang, Lianli Gao, Jingkuan Song, Feng Zheng, Heng Tao Shen
2024 — conf
ISAIR (2)
Xuying Zhang, Yang Liu, Ye Du, Jiaqi Zhang, Feiyu Chen, Yan Dai
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Multim.
Yan Dai, Xiaojia Chen, Xuanhan Wang, Minghui Pang, Lianli Gao, Heng Tao Shen
2022 A* conf
ACM Multimedia
Xuanhan Wang, Yan Dai, Lianli Gao, Jingkuan Song
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Xuanhan Wang, Yan Dai, Lianli Gao, Jingkuan Song
2021 A* conf
AAAI
Yan Dai, Xuanhan Wang, Lianli Gao, Jingkuan Song, Heng Tao Shen
2021 A* conf
ACM Multimedia
Xuanhan Wang, Lianli Gao, Yan Dai, Yixuan Zhou, Jingkuan Song
2019 J jnl
World Wide Web
Yan Dai, Jie Shao, Gang Hu, Long Guo
2018 J jnl
World Wide Web
Yan Dai, Jie Shao, Chengbo Wei, Dongxiang Zhang, Heng Tao Shen
2017 — conf
ICCCS (2)
Yan Dai, Jie Shao

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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