Zheng Fang

11 papers A 1Journal 7Unranked 3

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	J	`jnl`	A Novel, Human-in-the-Loop Computational Grounded Theory Framework for Big Social Data. CoRR Lama Alqazlan, Zheng Fang, Michael Castelle, Rob Procter
2025	J	`jnl`	A novel, human-in-the-loop computational grounded theory framework for big social data. Big Data Soc. Lama Alqazlan, Zheng Fang, Michael Castelle, Rob Procter
2024	—	`conf`	CWTM: Leveraging Contextualized Word Embeddings from BERT for Neural Topic Modeling. LREC/COLING Zheng Fang, Yulan He, Rob Procter
2024	J	`jnl`	Machine Learning Information Retrieval and Summarisation to Support Systematic Review on Outcomes Based Contracting. CoRR Iman Munire Bilal, Zheng Fang, Miguel Arana-Catania, Felix-Anselm van Lier, Juliana Outes Velarde, Harry Bregazzi, Eleanor Carter, Mara Airoldi, Rob Procter
2024	J	`jnl`	SyROCCo: Enhancing Systematic Reviews using Machine Learning. CoRR Zheng Fang, Miguel Arana-Catania, Felix-Anselm van Lier, Juliana Outes Velarde, Harry Bregazzi, Mara Airoldi, Eleanor Carter, Rob Procter
2023	A	`conf`	A User-Centered, Interactive, Human-in-the-Loop Topic Modelling System. EACL Zheng Fang, Lama Alqazlan, Du Liu, Yulan He, Rob Procter
2023	J	`jnl`	A User-Centered, Interactive, Human-in-the-Loop Topic Modelling System. CoRR Zheng Fang, Lama Alqazlan, Du Liu, Yulan He, Rob Procter
2022	—	`conf`	Disentangled Learning of Stance and Aspect Topics for Vaccine Attitude Detection in Social Media. NAACL-HLT Lixing Zhu, Zheng Fang, Gabriele Pergola, Robert Procter, Yulan He
2022	J	`jnl`	Disentangled Learning of Stance and Aspect Topics for Vaccine Attitude Detection in Social Media. CoRR Lixing Zhu, Zheng Fang, Gabriele Pergola, Rob Procter, Yulan He
2021	—	`conf`	A Query-Driven Topic Model. ACL/IJCNLP (Findings) Zheng Fang, Yulan He, Rob Procter
2021	J	`jnl`	A Query-Driven Topic Model. CoRR Zheng Fang, Yulan He, Rob Procter

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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