Research
DRACO investigates the security and resilience of computing systems at every level of abstraction — from transistor-level side channels to system-level threat models. Our applied research spans hardware security, side channel analysis, embedded systems, and AI-assisted vulnerability assessment, delivering open-source tools, reproducible methodologies, and field-tested solutions to our partners.
With over a dozen active researchers and nationally recognized cybersecurity education programs from K-12 through graduate level, every project we undertake doubles as a talent pipeline — producing publications and production-ready engineers in parallel.
Research Areas
Side Channel Analysis
Power analysis, electromagnetic analysis, and ML-based classification of hardware vulnerabilities. Our ethos — assessing and hardening devices from design time through deployment.
Hardware Trojans
AI-driven generation and detection of malicious logic in RTL designs and FPGA bitstreams. Projects include Dark Logic (RTL Trojans), Dark Fabric (FPGA Trojans), and TRIDENT (ML-based detection).
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