Zahid Hussain Khand

11 papers B 3Journal 8
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 B conf
COMPSAC
Saud Hussain, Faheem Akhtar, Jianqiang Li, Zahid Hussain Khand, Baolin Zhu, Lijun Zhao, Hongzhi Qi
2022 J jnl
Int. J. Distributed Sens. Networks
Asif Rajput, Jianqiang Li, Faheem Akhtar, Zahid Hussain Khand, Jason C. Hung, Yan Pei, Anko Börner
2022 B conf
COMPSAC
Faheem Akhtar, Jianqiang Li, Zahid Hussain Khand, Yu-Chih Wei, Khalid Hussain, Sana Fatima
2022 J jnl
Wirel. Pers. Commun.
Muhammad Yameen Sandhu, Sharjeel Afridi, Muhammad Rizwan Anjum, Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry, Zahid Hussain Khand
2021 J jnl
Secur. Commun. Networks
Sirajuddin Qureshi, Jianqiang Li, Faheem Akhtar, Saima Tunio, Zahid Hussain Khand, Ahsan Wajahat
2021 B conf
COMPSAC
Tariq Mahmood, Jianqiang Li, Yan Pei, Faheem Akhtar, Yanhe Jia, Zahid Hussain Khand
2021 J jnl
PeerJ Comput. Sci.
Ferhat Özgür Çatak, Javed Ahmed, Kevser Sahinbas, Zahid Hussain Khand
2021 J jnl
IEEE Access
Muhammad Hussain Mughal, Zubair Ahmed Shaikh, Asim Imdad Wagan, Zahid Hussain Khand, Saif Hassan
2020 J jnl
Sci. Program.
Sajid Khan, Dong-Ho Lee, Muhammad Asif Khan, Ahmad Waqas, Abdul Rehman Gilal, Zahid Hussain Khand
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Ferhat Özgür Çatak, Javed Ahmed, Kevser Sahinbas, Zahid Hussain Khand
2020 J jnl
IEEE Access
Shoaib Ahmed Shaikh, Sunny Katyara, Abdul Majeed, Zahid Hussain Khand, Lukasz Staszewski, Madad Ali Shah, Muhammad Fawad Shaikh, Veer Bhan, Qasir Memon, Umar Majeed, Muhammad Waqas, Farhan Soomro, Faheem Akhtar

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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