Yancan Mao

14 papers A* 3A 1Journal 5Unranked 5
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng.
Jianjun Zhao, Yancan Mao, Zhonghao Yang, Haikun Liu, Shuhao Zhang
2025 A conf
ICDCS
Yancan Mao, Shuhao Zhang, Richard T. B. Ma
2025 — conf
USENIX ATC
Jianjun Zhao, Haikun Liu, Shuhao Zhang, Haodi Lu, Yancan Mao, Zhuohui Duan, Xiaofei Liao, Hai Jin
2024 — conf
SoCC
Yancan Mao, Ruohang Yin, Liyuan Lei, Peng Ye, Shengfu Zou, Shizheng Tang, Yunzhe Guo, Ye Yuan, Xiaochen Yu, Bo Wan, Yunfei Gong, Changli Gao, Guanghui Zhang, Jian Shen, Rui Shi, Richard T. B. Ma
2024 A* conf
ICDE
Siqi Xiang, Zhonghao Yang, Jianjun Zhao, Yancan Mao, Shuhao Zhang
2024 A* conf
EMNLP
Esther Gan, Yiran Zhao, Liying Cheng, Yancan Mao, Anirudh Goyal, Kenji Kawaguchi, Min-Yen Kan, Michael Shieh
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Esther Gan, Yiran Zhao, Liying Cheng, Yancan Mao, Anirudh Goyal, Kenji Kawaguchi, Min-Yen Kan, Michael Shieh
2024 — conf
SIGMOD/PODS
Ayushi Singh, Sven Helmer, Yancan Mao, Jianjun Zhao, Shuhao Zhang
2023 J jnl
Proc. ACM Manag. Data
Yancan Mao, Jianjun Zhao, Shuhao Zhang, Haikun Liu, Volker Markl
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Yancan Mao, Jianjun Zhao, Zhonghao Yang, Shuhao Zhang, Haikun Liu, Volker Markl
2023 J jnl
Proc. VLDB Endow.
Yancan Mao, Zhanghao Chen, Yifan Zhang, Meng Wang, Yong Fang, Guanghui Zhang, Rui Shi, Richard T. B. Ma
2023 A* conf
INFOCOM
Zhaochen She, Yancan Mao, Hailin Xiang, Xin Wang, Richard T. B. Ma
2021 — conf
SIGMOD Conference
Shuhao Zhang, Yancan Mao, Jiong He, Philipp M. Grulich, Steffen Zeuch, Bingsheng He, Richard T. B. Ma, Volker Markl
2021 — conf
SoCC
Yancan Mao, Yuan Huang, Runxin Tian, Xin Wang, Richard T. B. Ma

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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