Yannis Papanikolaou

22 papers B 1Journal 16Unranked 4
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Yannis Papanikolaou, Francesco Tuveri, Misa Ogura, Daniel O'Donovan
2022 J jnl
Comput. Linguistics
Kamrun Naher Keya, Yannis Papanikolaou, James R. Foulds
2022 — conf
BioNLP@ACL
Yannis Papanikolaou, Marlene Staib, Justin Joshua Grace, Francine Bennett
2021 J jnl
Mach. Learn. Knowl. Extr.
Christos Ferles, Yannis Papanikolaou, Stylianos P. Savaidis, Stelios A. Mitilineos
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Yannis Papanikolaou, Francine Bennett
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Yannis Papanikolaou
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Yannis Papanikolaou, Andrea Pierleoni
2019 — conf
DeepLo@EMNLP-IJCNLP
Yannis Papanikolaou, Ian Roberts, Andrea Pierleoni
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Yannis Papanikolaou, Ian Roberts, Andrea Pierleoni
2019 J jnl
Evol. Syst.
Everton Alvares Cherman, Yannis Papanikolaou, Grigorios Tsoumakas, Maria Carolina Monard
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Kamrun Naher Keya, Yannis Papanikolaou, James R. Foulds
2018 J jnl
Neural Networks
Christos Ferles, Yannis Papanikolaou, Kevin J. Naidoo
2018 J jnl
Data Knowl. Eng.
Yannis Papanikolaou, Grigorios Tsoumakas, Ioannis Katakis
2018 B conf
DaWaK
Yannis Papanikolaou, Grigorios Tsoumakas
2018 — —
Yannis Papanikolaou
2017 J jnl
J. Mach. Learn. Res.
Yannis Papanikolaou, James R. Foulds, Timothy N. Rubin, Grigorios Tsoumakas
2017 J jnl
CoRR
Yannis Papanikolaou, Grigorios Tsoumakas, Manos Laliotis, Nikos Markantonatos, Ioannis P. Vlahavas
2017 J jnl
J. Biomed. Semant.
Yannis Papanikolaou, Grigorios Tsoumakas, Manos Laliotis, Nikos Markantonatos, Ioannis P. Vlahavas
2017 J jnl
CoRR
Yannis Papanikolaou, Grigorios Tsoumakas
2016 J jnl
CoRR
Yannis Papanikolaou, Ioannis Katakis, Grigorios Tsoumakas
2015 — conf
CLEF (Working Notes)
Yannis Papanikolaou, Grigorios Tsoumakas, Manos Laliotis, Nikos Markantonatos, Ioannis P. Vlahavas
2014 — conf
CLEF (Working Notes)
Yannis Papanikolaou, Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Grigorios Tsoumakas, Manos Laliotis, Nikos Markantonatos, Ioannis P. Vlahavas

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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