Zachary P. Fry

12 papers A* 1A 3Journal 4Unranked 4

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2014	J	`jnl`	Software mutational robustness. Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach. Eric M. Schulte, Zachary P. Fry, Ethan Fast, Westley Weimer, Stephanie Forrest
2013	—	`conf`	Clustering static analysis defect reports to reduce maintenance costs. WCRE Zachary P. Fry, Westley Weimer
2013	A	`conf`	Leveraging Light-Weight Analyses to Aid Software Maintenance. ICST Zachary P. Fry, Westley Weimer
2013	A*	`conf`	Leveraging program equivalence for adaptive program repair: Models and first results. ASE Westley Weimer, Zachary P. Fry, Stephanie Forrest
2012	A	`conf`	A human study of patch maintainability. ISSTA Zachary P. Fry, Bryan Landau, Westley Weimer
2012	J	`jnl`	Fault Localization Using Textual Similarities CoRR Zachary P. Fry, Westley Weimer
2012	J	`jnl`	Software Mutational Robustness: Bridging The Gap Between Mutation Testing and Evolutionary Biology CoRR Eric M. Schulte, Zachary P. Fry, Ethan Fast, Stephanie Forrest, Westley Weimer
2010	—	`conf`	A human study of fault localization accuracy. ICSM Zachary P. Fry, Westley Weimer
2008	A	`conf`	AMAP: automatically mining abbreviation expansions in programs to enhance software maintenance tools. MSR Emily Hill, Zachary P. Fry, Haley Boyd, Giriprasad Sridhara, Yana Novikova, Lori L. Pollock, K. Vijay-Shanker
2008	J	`jnl`	Analysing source code: looking for useful verbdirect object pairs in all the right places. IET Softw. Zachary P. Fry, David C. Shepherd, Emily Hill, Lori L. Pollock, K. Vijay-Shanker
2007	—	`conf`	Introducing natural language program analysis. PASTE Lori L. Pollock, K. Vijay-Shanker, David C. Shepherd, Emily Hill, Zachary P. Fry, Kishen Maloor
2007	—	`conf`	Using natural language program analysis to locate and understand action-oriented concerns. AOSD David C. Shepherd, Zachary P. Fry, Emily Hill, Lori L. Pollock, K. Vijay-Shanker

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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