Zhen Hou

14 papers A* 1Journal 6Unranked 7
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2024 J jnl
Discov. Artif. Intell.
Mengyuan Zhao, Puja Kumari, Eashwar Madhavan Perumal, Zhen Hou
2024 J jnl
Remote. Sens.
Wenjie Li, Biyu Tang, Zhen Hou, Hongbo Wang, Zongyu Bing, Qiong Yang, Yongqiang Zheng
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Zhijun Zeng, Zhen Hou, Ting Li, Lei Deng, Jianguo Hou, Xinran Huang, Jun Li, Meirou Sun, Yunhan Wang, Qiyu Wu, Wenhao Zheng, Hua Jiang, Qi Wang
2021 — conf
ICCDE
Qidong Liu, Tong Li, Rui Zhu, Zhen Hou, Zehui Zhang, Maoyu Chen, Bing Yang
2018 — conf
ICHI Workshops
Yu Zhang, Xuwen Wang, Liu Shen, Zhen Hou, Zhen Guo, Jiao Li
2017 J jnl
Comput. Chem. Eng.
Triveni Billa, Scott R. Horton, Mayuresh Sahasrabudhe, Chandra Saravanan, Zhen Hou, Pratyush Agarwal, Juan Lucio-Vega, Michael T. Klein
2017 J jnl
J. Data Inf. Sci.
Jiao Li, Si Zheng, Hongyu Kang, Zhen Hou, Qing Qian
2015 — conf
MedInfo
Yueping Sun, Zhen Hou, Li Hou, Jiao Li
2015 — conf
MedInfo
Hongyu Kang, Zhen Hou, Jiao Li
2009 — conf
BMEI
Zhen Hou, Huilong Duan, Xudong Lu
2009 J jnl
Image Vis. Comput.
Pradeep Gnanaprakasam, Johné M. Parker, Subburengan Ganapathiraman, Zhen Hou
2005 — conf
WACV/MOTION
Zhen Hou, Johné M. Parker
2002 — conf
ISCSLP
Ming Li, Zhiyu Wang, Yuan Wen, Zhen Hou, Tiecheng Yu
2002 A* conf
ICRA
Johné M. Parker, Yew Lim Cheong, Pradeep Gnanaprakasam, Zhen Hou, Joseph Istre

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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