Yang Katie Zhao

15 papers A* 5A 2Journal 4Unranked 4
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 — conf
ASP-DAC
Pingqing Zheng, Jiayin Qin, Fuqi Zhang, Niraj Chitla, Zishen Wan, Shang Wu, Yu Kevin Cao, Caiwen Ding, Yang Katie Zhao
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Zishen Wan, Jiayi Qian, Yuhang Du, Jason Jabbour, Yilun Du, Yang Katie Zhao, Arijit Raychowdhury, Tushar Krishna, Vijay Janapa Reddi
2025 A conf
ICCAD
Jinwei Tang, Jiayin Qin, Nuo Xu, Pragnya Sudershan Nalla, Yu Cao, Yang Katie Zhao, Caiwen Ding
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Cheng Wan, Runkai Tao, Zheng Du, Yang Katie Zhao, Yingyan Celine Lin
2025 A* conf
MICRO
Leshu Li, Jiayin Qin, Jie Peng, Zishen Wan, Huaizhi Qu, Ye Han, Pingqing Zheng, Hongsen Zhang, Yu Cao, Tianlong Chen, Yang Katie Zhao
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Leshu Li, Jiayin Qin, Jie Peng, Zishen Wan, Huaizhi Qu, Ye Han, Pingqing Zheng, Hongsen Zhang, Yu Cao, Tianlong Chen, Yang Katie Zhao
2025 — conf
ASPLOS (2)
Zishen Wan, Yuhang Du, Mohamed Ibrahim, Jiayi Qian, Jason Jabbour, Yang Katie Zhao, Tushar Krishna, Arijit Raychowdhury, Vijay Janapa Reddi
2024 A* conf
DAC
Yujie Zhao, Yang Katie Zhao, Cheng Wan, Yingyan (Celine) Lin
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Zhongzhi Yu, Zheng Wang, Yuhan Li, Haoran You, Ruijie Gao, Xiaoya Zhou, Sreenidhi Reddy Bommu, Yang Katie Zhao, Yingyan Celine Lin
2024 A* conf
DAC
Zhongzhi Yu, Zheng Wang, Yuhan Li, Ruijie Gao, Xiaoya Zhou, Sreenidhi Reddy Bommu, Yang Katie Zhao, Yingyan (Celine) Lin
2024 — conf
IGSC
Wenkai Guan, Yang Katie Zhao, Cristinel Ababei
2024 A conf
ICCAD
Zishen Wan, Yuhang Du, Mohamed Ibrahim, Yang Katie Zhao, Tushar Krishna, Arijit Raychowdhury
2024 — conf
IGSC
Wenkai Guan, Yang Katie Zhao, Cristinel Ababei
2023 A* conf
ISCA
Sixu Li, Chaojian Li, Wenbo Zhu, Boyang Tony Yu, Yang Katie Zhao, Cheng Wan, Haoran You, Huihong Shi, Yingyan (Celine) Lin
2023 A* conf
DAC
Yang Katie Zhao, Shang Wu, Jingqun Zhang, Sixu Li, Chaojian Li, Yingyan Celine Lin

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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