Yannick Sauer

15 papers B 4Journal 10Unranked 1
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Björn Rene Severitt, Yannick Sauer, Nora Castner, Siegfried Wahl
2025 B conf
ETRA
Anna-Lena von Behren, Yannick Sauer, Björn Severitt, Siegfried Wahl
2025 B conf
ETRA
Björn Rene Severitt, Yannick Sauer, Nora Jane Castner, Wolfgang Fuhl, Siegfried Wahl
2025 J jnl
Frontiers Virtual Real.
Björn Severitt, Yannick Sauer, Alexander Neugebauer, Rajat Agarwala, Nora Castner, Siegfried Wahl
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Björn Rene Severitt, Yannick Sauer, Alexander Neugebauer, Rajat Agarwala, Nora Castner, Siegfried Wahl
2024 B conf
ETRA
Yannick Sauer, Rajat Agarwala, Patrizia Lenhart, Regine Lendway, Björn Severitt, Alexander Neugebauer, Benedikt Werner Hosp, Nora Jane Castner, Siegfried Wahl
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Benedikt W. Hosp, Björn Severitt, Rajat Agarwala, Evgenia Rusak, Yannick Sauer, Siegfried Wahl
2024 B conf
ETRA
Yannick Sauer, Björn Severitt, Rajat Agarwala, Siegfried Wahl
2024 J jnl
Virtual Real.
Miguel García García, Yannick Sauer, Tamara Watson, Siegfried Wahl
2024 J jnl
Sensors
Benedikt W. Hosp, Martin Dechant, Yannick Sauer, Björn Severitt, Rajat Agarwala, Siegfried Wahl
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Benedikt W. Hosp, Yannick Sauer, Björn Severitt, Rajat Agarwala, Siegfried Wahl
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Benedikt W. Hosp, Martin Dechant, Yannick Sauer, Rajat Agarwala, Siegfried Wahl
2022 J jnl
Virtual Real.
Yannick Sauer, Alexandra Sipatchin, Siegfried Wahl, Miguel García García
2022 — conf
SIGGRAPH Asia Technical Communications
Yannick Sauer, Siegfried Wahl, Selam Wondimu Habtegiorgis
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Miguel García García, Yannick Sauer, Tamara Watson, Siegfried Wahl

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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