Zeqin Liao

13 papers A* 1A 2Journal 10
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
An Empirical Study on Embodied Artificial Intelligence Robot (EAIR) Software Bugs.
CoRR
Zeqin Liao, Zibin Zheng, Peifan Reng, Henglong Liang, Zixu Gao, Zhixiang Chen, Wei Li, Yuhong Nan
2025 J jnl
Augmenting Smart Contract Decompiler Output Through Fine-Grained Dependency Analysis and LLM-Facilitated Semantic Recovery.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
Zeqin Liao, Yuhong Nan, Zixu Gao, Henglong Liang, Sicheng Hao, Peifan Reng, Zibin Zheng
2025 J jnl
Augmenting Smart Contract Decompiler Output through Fine-grained Dependency Analysis and LLM-facilitated Semantic Recovery.
CoRR
Zeqin Liao, Yuhong Nan, Zixu Gao, Henglong Liang, Sicheng Hao, Peifan Reng, Zibin Zheng
2025 J jnl
Satellite: Detecting and Analyzing Smart Contract Vulnerabilities Caused by Subcontract Misuse.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
Zeqin Liao, Yuhong Nan, Zixu Gao, Henglong Liang, Sicheng Hao, Jiajing Wu, Zibin Zheng
2025 J jnl
Satellite: Detecting and Analyzing Smart Contract Vulnerabilities caused by Subcontract Misuse.
CoRR
Zeqin Liao, Yuhong Nan, Zixu Gao, Henglong Liang, Sicheng Hao, Jiajing Wu, Zibin Zheng
2025 A* conf
VRExplorer: A Model-based Approach for Semi-Automated Testing of Virtual Reality Scenes.
ASE
Zhengyang Zhu, Hong-Ning Dai, Hanyang Guo, Zeqin Liao, Zibin Zheng
2024 J jnl
SmartAxe: Detecting Cross-Chain Vulnerabilities in Bridge Smart Contracts via Fine-Grained Static Analysis.
CoRR
Zeqin Liao, Yuhong Nan, Henglong Liang, Sicheng Hao, Juan Zhai, Jiajing Wu, Zibin Zheng
2024 J jnl
SmartAxe: Detecting Cross-Chain Vulnerabilities in Bridge Smart Contracts via Fine-Grained Static Analysis.
Proc. ACM Softw. Eng.
Zeqin Liao, Yuhong Nan, Henglong Liang, Sicheng Hao, Juan Zhai, Jiajing Wu, Zibin Zheng
2024 J jnl
SmartState: Detecting State-Reverting Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts via Fine-Grained State-Dependency Analysis.
CoRR
Zeqin Liao, Sicheng Hao, Yuhong Nan, Zibin Zheng
2023 A conf
SmartState: Detecting State-Reverting Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts via Fine-Grained State-Dependency Analysis.
ISSTA
Zeqin Liao, Sicheng Hao, Yuhong Nan, Zibin Zheng
2022 A conf
SmartDagger: a bytecode-based static analysis approach for detecting cross-contract vulnerability.
ISSTA
Zeqin Liao, Zibin Zheng, Xiao Chen, Yuhong Nan
2021 J jnl
Dynamic Collaborative Charging Algorithm for Mobile and Static Nodes in Industrial Internet of Things.
IEEE Internet Things J.
Guangjie Han, Zeqin Liao, Miguel Martínez-García, Yu Zhang, Yan Peng
2021 J jnl
Multistation-Based Collaborative Charging Strategy for High-Density Low-Power Sensing Nodes in Industrial Internet of Things.
IEEE Internet Things J.
Zeqin Liao, Guangjie Han, Hao Wang, Li Liu

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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