Yang Xiao

35 papers B 2Journal 28Unranked 5
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Netw. Sci. Eng.
Bowen Zhao, Siyuan Guan, Minghui Chen, Jiali Wu, Cheng Qiao, Yang Xiao
2026 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Computers
Bowen Zhao, Weibin Guo, Jiahui Chen, Yang Xiao, Liang Zhai, Qingqi Pei
2025 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Yang Xiao, Zhijian Lin, Xiaoxiao Cao, Youjia Chen, Xiaoqiang Lu
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Weipéng Huáng, Qin Li, Yang Xiao, Cheng Qiao, Tie Cai, Junwei Liao, Neil J. Hurley, Guangyuan Piao
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur.
Jie Yin, Yang Xiao, Qian Chen, Yong Zhi Lim, Xuefeng Liu, Qingqi Pei, Jianying Zhou
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput.
Jie Yin, Yang Xiao, Jie Feng, Mengmeng Yang, Qingqi Pei, Xun Yi
2025 — conf
KDD (2)
Jiawei Guo, Yang Xiao, Weipéng Huáng, Guangyuan Piao
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Jiawei Guo, Yang Xiao, Weipéng Huáng, Guangyuan Piao
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput.
Zhijian Lin, Yang Xiao, Yi Fang, Hongbing Chen, Xiaoqiang Lu
2025 J jnl
IEEE J. Biomed. Health Informatics
Yuzhe Zhang, Huan Liu, Yang Xiao, Mohammed Amoon, Dalin Zhang, Di Wang, Shusen Yang, Chai Quek
2025 J jnl
Proc. VLDB Endow.
Enyuan Zhou, Song Guo, Zicong Hong, Christian S. Jensen, Yang Xiao, Jinwen Liang, Dalin Zhang
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Guotao Xu, Bowen Zhao, Yang Xiao, Yantao Zhong, Liang Zhai, Qingqi Pei
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Cloud Comput.
Guotao Xu, Bowen Zhao, Yang Xiao, Yantao Zhong, Liang Zhai, Qingqi Pei
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput.
Bo Tian, Bowen Zhao, Yang Xiao, Yang Liu, Qingqi Pei, Yulong Shen
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.
Zhijian Lin, Yang Xiao, Xiaoqiang Lu, Celimuge Wu, Wenhao Wu
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Chengxuan Li, Di Huang, Zeyu Lu, Yang Xiao, Qingqi Pei, Lei Bai
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas.
Huan Liu, Tianyu Lou, Yuzhe Zhang, Yixiao Wu, Yang Xiao, Christian S. Jensen, Dalin Zhang
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur.
Minzhe Wu, Bowen Zhao, Yang Xiao, Congjian Deng, Yuan Liu, Ximeng Liu
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Weiquan Deng, Bowen Zhao, Yang Xiao, Yantao Zhong, Qingqi Pei, Ximeng Liu
2023 — conf
ICA3PP (3)
Jingyi Tian, Yang Xiao, Enyuan Zhou, Qingqi Pei
2023 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput.
Yang Xiao, Zhuolin Xing, Alex X. Liu, Lei Bai, Qingqi Pei, Lina Yao
2023 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Yang Xiao, Chengjia Yan, Shuo Lyu, Qingqi Pei, Ximeng Liu, Ning Zhang, Mianxiong Dong
2023 — conf
NaNA
Chengxuan Li, Zhou Yang, Yang Xiao, Haozhao Liu, Yuning Zhang, Qingqi Pei
2023 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng.
Enyuan Zhou, Zicong Hong, Yang Xiao, Dongxiao Zhao, Qingqi Pei, Song Guo, Rajendra Akerkar
2023 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Jie Yin, Yang Xiao, Qingqi Pei, Ying Ju, Lei Liu, Ming Xiao, Celimuge Wu
2023 J jnl
Proc. VLDB Endow.
Enyuan Zhou, Song Guo, Zicong Hong, Christian S. Jensen, Yang Xiao, Dalin Zhang, Jinwen Liang, Qingqi Pei
2021 J jnl
J. Netw. Comput. Appl.
Yang Xiao, Qingqi Pei, Tingting Xiao, Lina Yao, Huan Liu
2020 B conf
ICPADS
Zhihui Wu, Yang Xiao, Enyuan Zhou, Qingqi Pei, Quan Wang
2020 B conf
SRDS
Qingqi Pei, Enyuan Zhou, Yang Xiao, Deyu Zhang, Dongxiao Zhao
2020 J jnl
J. Netw. Comput. Appl.
Yang Xiao, Qingqi Pei, Lina Yao, Shui Yu, Lei Bai, Xianzhi Wang
2020 J jnl
IEEE Intell. Syst.
Yang Xiao, Lina Yao, Qingqi Pei, Xianzhi Wang, Jian Yang, Quan Z. Sheng
2020 — conf
PAKDD (1)
Lei Bai, Lina Yao, Xianzhi Wang, Salil S. Kanhere, Yang Xiao
2020 J jnl
Expert Syst. Appl.
Yang Xiao, Qingqi Pei, Lina Yao, Xianzhi Wang
2018 J jnl
IEEE Access
Yang Xiao, Qingqi Pei, Xuefeng Liu, Shui Yu
2017 — conf
NaNA
Haokai Song, Qingqi Pei, Yang Xiao, Zi Li, Yong Wang

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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