Yangyu Hu

11 papers A* 2A 1C 1Journal 4Unranked 3

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2024	—	`conf`	Which Store Should I Choose? A Comparative Study of Third-Party Mobile App Store Based on Quality Evaluation. ADMA (1) Herve Dimitri Motsakou Gandze, Pengfei Wang, Yangyu Hu, Jiahao Yang, Kefei Cheng
2021	A*	`conf`	CHAMP: Characterizing Undesired App Behaviors from User Comments based on Market Policies. ICSE Yangyu Hu, Haoyu Wang, Tiantong Ji, Xusheng Xiao, Xiapu Luo, Peng Gao, Yao Guo
2021	J	`jnl`	CHAMP: Characterizing Undesired App Behaviors from User Comments based on Market Policies. CoRR Yangyu Hu, Haoyu Wang, Tiantong Ji, Xusheng Xiao, Xiapu Luo, Peng Gao, Yao Guo
2021	J	`jnl`	Dating with Scambots: Understanding the Ecosystem of Fraudulent Dating Applications. IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. Yangyu Hu, Haoyu Wang, Yajin Zhou, Yao Guo, Li Li, Bingxuan Luo, Fangren Xu
2020	C	`conf`	Dissecting Mobile Offerwall Advertisements: An Explorative Study. QRS Xu Xu, Yangyu Hu, Qian Guo, Ren He, Li Li, Guoai Xu, Zhihui Han, Haoyu Wang
2020	A*	`conf`	Mobile App Squatting. WWW Yangyu Hu, Haoyu Wang, Ren He, Li Li, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro, Yao Guo, Lei Wu, Guoai Xu
2020	J	`jnl`	Robust App Clone Detection Based on Similarity of UI Structure. IEEE Access Yangyu Hu, Guosheng Xu, Bowen Zhang, Kun Lai, Guoai Xu, Miao Zhang
2019	A	`conf`	Want to Earn a Few Extra Bucks? A First Look at Money-Making Apps. SANER Yangyu Hu, Haoyu Wang, Li Li, Yao Guo, Guoai Xu, Ren He
2018	J	`jnl`	Dating with Scambots: Understanding the Ecosystem of Fraudulent Dating Applications. CoRR Yangyu Hu, Haoyu Wang, Yajin Zhou, Yao Guo, Li Li, Bingxuan Luo, Fangren Xu
2016	—	`conf`	A New Approach to Security Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks for Smart Home Systems. INCoS Miao Zhang, Yang Liu, Jiteng Wang, Yangyu Hu
2016	—	`conf`	Research on the technology of massive Android application data processing. CCIS Hewei Yu, Yangyu Hu, Yang Gao, Juan Xu, Miao Zhang

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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