Yang Cao

22 papers A* 8Journal 14
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Yang Cao, Feize Wu, Dave Zhenyu Chen, Yingji Zhong, Lanqing Hong, Dan Xu
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.
Yang Cao, Yihan Zeng, Hang Xu, Dan Xu
2025 A* conf
ICML
Qin Guo, Ailing Zeng, Dongxu Yue, Ceyuan Yang, Yang Cao, Hanzhong Guo, Fei Shen, Wei Liu, Xihui Liu, Dan Xu
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Qin Guo, Ailing Zeng, Dongxu Yue, Ceyuan Yang, Yang Cao, Hanzhong Guo, Fei Shen, Wei Liu, Xihui Liu, Dan Xu
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Yang Cao, Yuanliang Jv, Dan Xu
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Yang Cao, Yihan Zeng, Hang Xu, Dan Xu
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Image Process.
Zhengqiang Zhang, Ruihuang Li, Shi Guo, Yang Cao, Lei Zhang
2024 A* conf
CVPR
Peng-Tao Jiang, Yuqi Yang, Yang Cao, Qibin Hou, Ming-Ming Cheng, Chunhua Shen
2024 A* conf
NeurIPS
Yi Zhu, Yanpeng Zhou, Chunwei Wang, Yang Cao, Jianhua Han, Lu Hou, Hang Xu
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Yi Zhu, Yanpeng Zhou, Chunwei Wang, Yang Cao, Jianhua Han, Lu Hou, Hang Xu
2023 A* conf
NeurIPS
Yang Cao, Yihan Zeng, Hang Xu, Dan Xu
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Yang Cao, Yihan Zeng, Hang Xu, Dan Xu
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Zhengqiang Zhang, Ruihuang Li, Shi Guo, Yang Cao, Lei Zhang
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Peng-Tao Jiang, Yuqi Yang, Yang Cao, Qibin Hou, Ming-Ming Cheng, Chunhua Shen
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Yang Cao, Zhengqiang Zhang, Enze Xie, Qibin Hou, Kai Zhao, Xiangui Luo, Jian Tuo
2019 A* conf
CVPR
Jiaxing Zhao, Yang Cao, Deng-Ping Fan, Ming-Ming Cheng, Xuan-Yi Li, Le Zhang
2019 A* conf
ICCV
Jiaxing Zhao, Jiang-Jiang Liu, Deng-Ping Fan, Yang Cao, Jufeng Yang, Ming-Ming Cheng
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Jiaxing Zhao, Jiang-Jiang Liu, Deng-Ping Fan, Yang Cao, Jufeng Yang, Ming-Ming Cheng
2019 A* conf
ICCV
Peng-Tao Jiang, Qibin Hou, Yang Cao, Ming-Ming Cheng, Yunchao Wei, Hongkai Xiong
2018 A* conf
IJCAI
Deng-Ping Fan, Cheng Gong, Yang Cao, Bo Ren, Ming-Ming Cheng, Ali Borji
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Deng-Ping Fan, Cheng Gong, Yang Cao, Bo Ren, Ming-Ming Cheng, Ali Borji
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Yun Liu, Ming-Ming Cheng, Jia-Wang Bian, Le Zhang, Peng-Tao Jiang, Yang Cao

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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