Yankai Cao

44 papers A* 4C 1Journal 32Unranked 7
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Pattern Recognit.
Jian Xu, Chaojie Ji, Yankai Cao, Ye Li, Wei Zhao, Ruxin Wang
2026 J jnl
Inf. Process. Manag.
Pengcheng Guo, Yonghong Song, Boyu Wang, Yankai Cao, Jiayang Ren, Chaojie Ji, Jiahao Liu, Qi Zhang, Qiangqiang Mao
2026 J jnl
IEEE CAA J. Autom. Sinica
Liang Cao, Jianping Su, Fan Yang, Yankai Cao, R. Bhushan Gopaluni
2026 J jnl
Inf. Sci.
Chaojie Ji, Jialin Nan, Hongyan Wu, Shiyun Wang, Ruxin Wang, Yankai Cao
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Muhammad Ahmad, Jingjing Zheng, Yankai Cao
2026 J jnl
Comput. Chem. Eng.
Qiangqiang Mao, Boris Yip, Chuanhao Xu, Sagar Garg, Pengcheng Guo, Yankai Cao
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manag.
Sheng Han, Hong Zhu, Qishui Zhong, Kaibo Shi, Yankai Cao, Jianfeng Liu
2025 — conf
ICIC (1)
Yankai Cao, Xiaoqian Qu, Jia He, Sensen Song, Zhenhong Jia
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas.
Liang Cao, Jingyi Wang, Jianping Su, Yi Luo, Yankai Cao, Richard D. Braatz, R. Bhushan Gopaluni
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans Autom. Sci. Eng.
Morimasa Okamoto, Jiayang Ren, Qiangqiang Mao, Jianfeng Liu, Yankai Cao
2025 — conf
CDC
Jiayang Ren, Qiangqiang Mao, Tianwei Zhao, Yankai Cao
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Jiayang Ren, Qiangqiang Mao, Tianwei Zhao, Yankai Cao
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Ahmed Al Shafei, Nima Amjady, Hamidreza Zareipour, Yankai Cao
2025 — conf
ICIC (1)
Xiaoqian Qu, Yankai Cao, Zhenhong Jia, Gang Zhou, Jiajia Wang
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Jingjing Zheng, Yankai Cao
2024 — conf
Tiny Papers @ ICLR
Jingjing Zheng, Yankai Cao
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Qiangqiang Mao, Yankai Cao
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Jian Xu, Chaojie Ji, Yankai Cao, Ye Li, Ruxin Wang
2024 — conf
ECCV (14)
Jingjing Zheng, Wanglong Lu, Wenzhe Wang, Yankai Cao, Xiaoqin Zhang, Xianta Jiang
2024 — conf
ICPS
Liang Cao, Yankai Cao, R. Bhushan Gopaluni
2024 J jnl
Inf. Sci.
Shulei Zhang, Runda Jia, Yankai Cao, Dakuo He, Feng Yu
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Jiayang Ren, Valentín Osuna-Enciso, Morimasa Okamoto, Qiangqiang Mao, Chaojie Ji, Liang Cao, Kaixun Hua, Yankai Cao
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Jiayang Ren, Ningning You, Kaixun Hua, Chaojie Ji, Yankai Cao
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Jingjing Zheng, Wenzhe Wang, Xiaoqin Zhang, Yankai Cao, Xianta Jiang
2023 J jnl
Comput. Chem. Eng.
Jingyi Wang, Jesús Moreira, Yankai Cao, R. Bhushan Gopaluni
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Ahmed Al Shafei, Hamidreza Zareipour, Yankai Cao
2022 A* conf
NeurIPS
Kaixun Hua, Jiayang Ren, Yankai Cao
2022 J jnl
Int. J. Intell. Syst.
Narinder Singh, Essam H. Houssein, Seyedali Mirjalili, Yankai Cao, Ganeshsree Selvachandran
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Yun Li, Yixiu Wang, Yifu Chen, Kaixun Hua, Jiayang Ren, Ghazaleh Mozafari, Qiugang Lu, Yankai Cao
2022 A* conf
NeurIPS
Jiayang Ren, Kaixun Hua, Yankai Cao
2022 A* conf
ICML
Mingfei Shi, Kaixun Hua, Jiayang Ren, Yankai Cao
2022 J jnl
Reliab. Eng. Syst. Saf.
Qian Chen, Lili Zuo, Changchun Wu, Yun Li, Kaixun Hua, Mahdi Mehrtash, Yankai Cao
2022 — conf
SICE
Liang Cao, R. Bhushan Gopaluni, Lim C. Siang, Yankai Cao, Jin Li
2022 C conf
ACC
Jingyi Wang, Jesús Moreira, Yankai Cao, R. Bhushan Gopaluni
2022 J jnl
Autom.
Yun Li, Kaixun Hua, Yankai Cao
2021 A* conf
ICML
Kaixun Hua, Mingfei Shi, Yankai Cao
2021 J jnl
Comput. Chem. Eng.
Qian Chen, Changchun Wu, Lili Zuo, Mahdi Mehrtash, Yixiu Wang, Yaran Bu, Rehan Sadiq, Yankai Cao
2021 J jnl
Reliab. Eng. Syst. Saf.
Qian Chen, Lili Zuo, Changchun Wu, Yankai Cao, Yaran Bu, Feng Chen, Rehan Sadiq
2019 J jnl
J. Glob. Optim.
Yankai Cao, Victor M. Zavala
2019 J jnl
Comput. Chem. Eng.
Jordan Jalving, Yankai Cao, Victor M. Zavala
2017 J jnl
Comput. Chem. Eng.
Yankai Cao, Luis Fabián Fuentes-Cortés, Siyu Chen, Victor M. Zavala
2016 J jnl
Comput. Chem. Eng.
Yankai Cao, Arpan Seth, Carl D. Laird
2016 J jnl
Comput. Optim. Appl.
Yankai Cao, Carl D. Laird, Victor M. Zavala
2014 J jnl
Comput. Chem. Eng.
Jia Kang, Yankai Cao, Daniel P. Word, Carl D. Laird

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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