DRACO Design of Resilient Architectures for Computing
We break things.
So you can build them better.
Applied security research from silicon to swarms. The DRACO Lab at UCF goes where others hesitate — red teaming systems, exploiting side channels, and hardening everything from transistor gates to autonomous drone swarms.
100+ Publications
12+ Researchers
8 Active Projects
6 Sponsors

Highlights

Our Research

Our Research

We develop algorithms and processes to design, develop, and assess the resilience, robustness, security electronic devices and systems. All of our research and nearly all of our (~100) publications and presentations involve students.

Our Projects

Our Projects

We work on a broad range of projects, funded by various federal and industry partners, while much of our work is open source, some of our work may remain embargoed or partially-redacted when necessary.

We have opportunities for undergraduate (paid or experiential based on interest and time commitment) and graduate research (funded). Our research projects are tightly coupled with the topics listed above, but we also sponsor more applied projects which may be of interest to Senior Design Teams.

Meet the Team

Meet the Team

We’re an open and collaborative group - learn more about who we are!