Yankui Zhang

13 papers Journal 11Unranked 2
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2020 J jnl
IEEE Access
Peng Han, Haiyun Xu, Bin Ba, Yankui Zhang
2019 J jnl
Digit. Signal Process.
Yankui Zhang, Haiyun Xu, Rong Zong, Bin Ba, Daming Wang
2019 J jnl
IEEE Access
Yankui Zhang, Daming Wang, Haiyun Xu, Fengtong Mei, Jiangdong You
2019 J jnl
Wirel. Commun. Mob. Comput.
Yankui Zhang, Daming Wang, Weijia Cui, Jiangdong You, Hao Li, Fei Liu
2019 J jnl
KSII Trans. Internet Inf. Syst.
Yankui Zhang, Haiyun Xu, Bin Ba, Rong Zong, Daming Wang, Xiangzhi Li
2019 J jnl
IEEE Access
Haiyun Xu, Daming Wang, Bin Ba, Weijia Cui, Yankui Zhang
2019 J jnl
J. Sensors
Haiyun Xu, Yankui Zhang, Bin Ba, Daming Wang, Peng Han
2019 — conf
ICCT
Yankui Zhang, Daming Wang, Haiyun Xu, Songtao Yang, Zhenyu Wang, Jiangdong You
2018 J jnl
Sensors
Yankui Zhang, Bin Ba, Daming Wang, Wei Geng, Haiyun Xu
2018 J jnl
IEEE Access
Yankui Zhang, Haiyun Xu, Bin Ba, Daming Wang, Wei Geng
2018 J jnl
IEEE Access
Haiyun Xu, Yankui Zhang, Bin Ba, Daming Wang, Xiangzhi Li
2018 J jnl
Sensors
Haiyun Xu, Yankui Zhang, Bin Ba, Daming Wang, Xiangzhi Li
2017 — conf
ICSPCC
Zhengliang Dai, Bin Ba, Yankui Zhang, Haiyun Xu

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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