Yanping Xu

35 papers C 1Misc 1Journal 23Unranked 10
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 — conf
ICIRA (1)
Jiaxing Zhou, Lu Liu, Yanping Xu, Zhouhua Peng
2024 J jnl
Discret. Appl. Math.
Zhiyong Gan, Yanping Xu
2023 J jnl
Sensors
Shaonian Ma, Yuxi Pang, Qiang Ji, Xian Zhao, Yongfu Li, Zengguang Qin, Zhaojun Liu, Yanping Xu
2023 J jnl
IEEE CAA J. Autom. Sinica
Yanping Xu, Lu Liu, Nan Gu, Dan Wang, Zhouhua Peng
2023 — conf
DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech
Ruizhi Wang, Yanping Xu, Yifan Wu
2022 J jnl
J. Comput. Assist. Learn.
Liwei Niu, Xinghua Wang, Matthew P. Wallace, Hui Pang, Yanping Xu
2022 J jnl
Discret. Math.
Zhiyong Gan, Yanping Xu
2022 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Shuai Qu, Zequn Wang, Zengguang Qin, Yanping Xu, Zhenhua Cong, Zhaojun Liu
2022 J jnl
Sensors
Shaonian Ma, Yanping Xu, Yuxi Pang, Xian Zhao, Yongfu Li, Zengguang Qin, Zhaojun Liu, Ping Lu, Xiaoyi Bao
2022 — conf
ICCA
Yanping Xu, Lu Liu, Zhouhua Peng, Dan Wang, Haoliang Wang, Anqing Wang
2022 J jnl
IET Image Process.
Yingpin Chen, Yuming Huang, Lingzhi Wang, Huiying Huang, Jianhua Song, Chaoqun Yu, Yanping Xu
2021 Misc conf
ICMLC
Yanping Xu, Xia Zhang, Tingcong Ye, Zhenliang Qiu, Lingjun Zhang, Hua Zhang, Yifan Wu
2021 J jnl
Sensors
Gongli Xiao, Zetao Ou, Hongyan Yang, Yanping Xu, Jianyun Chen, Haiou Li, Qi Li, Lizhen Zeng, Yanron Den, Jianqing Li
2021 J jnl
Wirel. Commun. Mob. Comput.
Hongmin Gao, Zhaofeng Ma, Shoushan Luo, Yanping Xu, Zheng Wu
2021 J jnl
J. Intell. Fuzzy Syst.
Yanping Xu, Tingcong Ye, Xin Wang, Yuping Lai, Jian Qiu, Lingjun Zhang, Xia Zhang
2021 J jnl
Discret. Appl. Math.
Zhiyong Gan, Yanping Xu
2021 J jnl
Sensors
Gongli Xiao, Yanping Xu, Hongyan Yang, Zetao Ou, Jianyun Chen, Haiou Li, Xingpeng Liu, Lizhen Zeng, Jianqing Li
2021 J jnl
Wirel. Commun. Mob. Comput.
Yanping Xu, Xia Zhang, Chengdan Lu, Zhenliang Qiu, Chunfang Bi, Yuping Lai, Jian Qiu, Hua Zhang
2021 — conf
DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech
Yanping Xu, Zhenliang Qiu, Jieyin Zhang, Xia Zhang, Jian Qiu, Fangzhou Guo
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Yingpin Chen, Yuming Huang, Lingzhi Wang, Huiying Huang, Jianhua Song, Chaoqun Yu, Yanping Xu
2021 J jnl
Sensors
Stephen J. Mihailov, Cyril Hnatovsky, Nurmemet Abdukerim, Robert B. Walker, Ping Lu, Yanping Xu, Xiaoyi Bao, Huimin Ding, Manny De Silva, David Coulas, Dan Grobnic
2020 J jnl
Graphs Comb.
Zhiyong Gan, Dingjun Lou, Yanping Xu
2019 J jnl
Multim. Tools Appl.
Xuelong Yin, Jindong Zhang, Xinggang Wu, Ju Huang, Yanping Xu, Linyao Zhu
2019 J jnl
IEEE Access
Yuping Lai, Xiu Ma, Yanping Xu, Yongfa Ling, Chunlai Du, Jianhe Du, Yongmei Zhang, Yuan Ping
2018 — conf
OFC
Liang Zhang, Yuan Wang, Yanping Xu, Liang Chen, Xiaoyi Bao
2018 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Mag.
Daojing He, Ran Ye, Sammy Chan, Mohsen Guizani, Yanping Xu
2018 — conf
ICNC-FSKD
Yanping Xu, Na Li
2017 J jnl
Secur. Commun. Networks
Yanping Xu, Chunhua Wu, Kangfeng Zheng, Xu Wang, Xinxin Niu, Tianliang Lu
2017 J jnl
KSII Trans. Internet Inf. Syst.
Yanping Xu, Chunhua Wu, Kangfeng Zheng, Xinxin Niu, Tianling Lu
2017 — conf
OFC
Yanping Xu, Liang Zhang, Mingjiang Zhang, Ping Lu, Stephen J. Mihailov, Xiaoyi Bao
2017 J jnl
Int. J. Distributed Sens. Networks
Yanping Xu, Chunhua Wu, Kangfeng Zheng, Xinxin Niu, Yixian Yang
2016 — conf
WPMC
Xingwang Li, Xueqing Yang, Yanping Xu, Lihua Li, Guangyan Lu, Mengli Hao
2014 — conf
ICSI (2)
Bo-Yang Qu, Yanping Xu, Dongyun Wang, Hui Song, Zhigang Shang
2012 — conf
CLSW
Yanping Xu, Jincheng Zhang
2010 C conf
ICIS
Jianbao Chen, Yanping Xu, Jingjie Wang

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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