Yan Zhang

11 papers Journal 8Unranked 3
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Sci. China Inf. Sci.
Shaowen Su, Minggang Gan, Yan Zhang
2024 J jnl
Pattern Recognit.
Minggang Gan, Yan Zhang
2024 J jnl
IEEE Access
Shaowen Su, Yan Zhang
2024 J jnl
ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol.
Shaowen Su, Yan Zhang, Minggang Gan
2023 J jnl
Multim. Tools Appl.
Minggang Gan, Yan Zhang
2023 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Multim.
Minggang Gan, Yan Zhang
2023 J jnl
Appl. Intell.
Minggang Gan, Yan Zhang, Shaowen Su
2020 — conf
ICCDE
Zongkai Tian, Yan Zhang
2019 J jnl
Int. J. Prod. Res.
Zhiyang Jia, Kaixin Zhao, Yan Zhang, Yaping Dai, Chang Liu
2018 — conf
SysCon
Zhiyang Jia, Chang Liu, Yan Zhang, Yaping Dai
2018 — conf
SCIS&ISIS
Yan Zhang, Zhiyang Jia, Yaping Dai

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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