Zaheer Ahmed

21 papers B 2Misc 3Journal 10Unranked 6
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2023 J jnl
J. Classif.
Zaheer Ahmed, Alberto Cassese, Gerard J. P. Van Breukelen, Jan Schepers
2023 J jnl
Ad Hoc Networks
Zaheer Ahmed, Ayaz Ahmad, Muhammad Altaf, Farman Ali Khan
2022 Misc conf
FIT
Zaheer Ahmed, Aun Irtaza, Awais Mehmood, Muhammad Faheem Saleem
2021 J jnl
Adv. Data Anal. Classif.
Zaheer Ahmed, Alberto Cassese, Gerard J. P. Van Breukelen, Jan Schepers
2019 J jnl
Neural Comput. Appl.
Muhammad Asif Zahoor Raja, Naveed Ishtiaq Chaudhary, Zaheer Ahmed, Ata Ur Rehman, Muhammad Saeed Aslam
2019 Misc conf
FIT
Shiza Andleeb, Rashid Ahmed, Zaheer Ahmed, Maira Kanwal
2018 J jnl
IEEE Access
Malik Najmus Siraj, Zaheer Ahmed, Muhammad Kashif Hanif, Muhammad Hasanain Chaudary, Shoab Ahmed Khan, Nadeem Javaid
2018 — conf
BWCCA
Amna Abbas, Nadeem Javaid, Muhammad Ismail, Maria Naeem, Zaheer Ahmed, Tamoor Wakeel
2017 Misc conf
FIT
Zaheer Ahmed, Khalid Iqbal, Irfan Mehmood, Muhammad Adnan Ayub
2016 — conf
SOFA (1)
Zaheer Ahmed, Muhammad Arif, Muhammad Sami Ullah, Adeel Ahmed, Muhammad Jabbar
2016 J jnl
IEEE Access
Asrar Ashraf, Habibullah Jamal, Shoab Ahmed Khan, Zaheer Ahmed, Muhammad Iram Baig
2016 — conf
SOFA (1)
Adeel Ahmed, Muhammad Arif, Abdul Rasheed Rizwan, Muhammad Jabbar, Zaheer Ahmed
2016 — conf
NBiS
Malik Najmus Siraj, Nadeem Javaid, Qaisar Shafi, Zaheer Ahmed, Umar Qasim, Zahoor Ali Khan
2016 — conf
SOFA (1)
Adeel Ahmed, Muhammad Arif, Abdul Rasheed Rizwan, Muhammad Jabbar, Zaheer Ahmed, Muhammad Sami Ullah
2016 B conf
ETRA
Zaheer Ahmed, Diako Mardanbegi, Dan Witzner Hansen
2012 — conf
ICWL Workshops
Mhd. Amer Wafai, Zaheer Ahmed, Rainer Keller, Sven Holzmann, Björn Sander, Michael M. Resch
2010 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Consumer Electron.
Rizwana Mehboob, Shoab Ahmed Khan, Zaheer Ahmed, Habibullah Jamal, Muhammad Shahbaz
2010 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Consumer Electron.
Zaheer Ahmed, Habibullah Jamal, Rizwana Mehboob, Shoab Ahmed Khan, Muhammad Shahbaz
2009 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Consumer Electron.
Zaheer Ahmed, Habibullah Jamal, Shoab Ahmed Khan, Rizwana Mehboob, Asrar Ashraf
2008 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Consumer Electron.
Zaheer Ahmed, Habibullah Jamal, Rizwana Mehboob, Shoab Ahmed Khan
2007 B conf
MDM
Saira Parvez Khan, Shoab Ahmed Khan, Sana Ismaeel, Zaheer Ahmed, Muhammad Akbar

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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