Zhaoyan Xu - RankMe

16 papers A* 5A 3B 2C 1Journal 2Unranked 3

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2019	B	`conf`	DPX: Data-Plane eXtensions for SDN Security Service Instantiation. DIMVA Taejune Park, Yeonkeun Kim, Vinod Yegneswaran, Phillip A. Porras, Zhaoyan Xu, KyoungSoo Park, Seungwon Shin
2018	B	`conf`	CloudRand: Building Heterogeneous and Moving-Target Network Interfaces. ICCCN Seungwon Shin, Zhaoyan Xu, Yeonkeun Kim, Guofei Gu
2018	—	`conf`	HEX Switch: Hardware-assisted security extensions of OpenFlow. SecSoN@SIGCOMM Taejune Park, Zhaoyan Xu, Seungwon Shin
2016	J	`jnl`	PRIDE: A practical intrusion detection system for resource constrained wireless mesh networks. Comput. Secur. Amin Hassanzadeh, Zhaoyan Xu, Radu Stoleru, Guofei Gu, Michalis Polychronakis
2014	A*	`conf`	AUTOPROBE: Towards Automatic Active Malicious Server Probing Using Dynamic Binary Analysis. CCS Zhaoyan Xu, Antonio Nappa, Robert Baykov, Guangliang Yang, Juan Caballero, Guofei Gu
2014	A*	`conf`	CyberProbe: Towards Internet-Scale Active Detection of Malicious Servers. NDSS Antonio Nappa, Zhaoyan Xu, M. Zubair Rafique, Juan Caballero, Guofei Gu
2014	—	`conf`	DroidMiner: Automated Mining and Characterization of Fine-grained Malicious Behaviors in Android Applications. ESORICS (1) Chao Yang, Zhaoyan Xu, Guofei Gu, Vinod Yegneswaran, Phillip A. Porras
2014	A	`conf`	GoldenEye: Efficiently and Effectively Unveiling Malware's Targeted Environment. RAID Zhaoyan Xu, Jialong Zhang, Guofei Gu, Zhiqiang Lin
2014	—	`conf`	SRID: State Relation Based Intrusion Detection for False Data Injection Attacks in SCADA. ESORICS (2) Yong Wang, Zhaoyan Xu, Jialong Zhang, Lei Xu, Haopei Wang, Guofei Gu
2013	A	`conf`	AUTOVAC: Automatically Extracting System Resource Constraints and Generating Vaccines for Malware Immunization. ICDCS Zhaoyan Xu, Jialong Zhang, Guofei Gu, Zhiqiang Lin
2013	J	`jnl`	EFFORT: A new host-network cooperated framework for efficient and effective bot malware detection. Comput. Networks Seungwon Shin, Zhaoyan Xu, Guofei Gu
2013	C	`conf`	PRIDE: Practical Intrusion Detection in Resource Constrained Wireless Mesh Networks. ICICS Amin Hassanzadeh, Zhaoyan Xu, Radu Stoleru, Guofei Gu, Michalis Polychronakis
2012	A*	`conf`	Automatic generation of vaccines for malware immunization. CCS Zhaoyan Xu, Jialong Zhang, Guofei Gu, Zhiqiang Lin
2012	A*	`conf`	EFFORT: Efficient and effective bot malware detection. INFOCOM Seungwon Shin, Zhaoyan Xu, Guofei Gu
2012	A*	`conf`	PeerPress: utilizing enemies' P2P strength against them. CCS Zhaoyan Xu, Lingfeng Chen, Guofei Gu, Christopher Kruegel
2012	A	`conf`	PoisonAmplifier: A Guided Approach of Discovering Compromised Websites through Reversing Search Poisoning Attacks. RAID Jialong Zhang, Chao Yang, Zhaoyan Xu, Guofei Gu

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.

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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