Welcome
Welcome to the Design of Resilient Architectures for Computing (DRACO) lab website. We’re a part of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Central Florida located in spectacular Orlando, Florida.
DRACO is dedicated to exploring the resilience and security of computing systems. With a team of over a dozen student researchers, our focus is on automating the design, development, and assessment of attacks, resilience, robustness, and ultimately security in electronic devices and systems.
Our research covers various areas, including the study of advanced and novel cryptographic logic primitives like polymorphic, homomorphic, and quantum-enhanced techniques. We’re also involved in assessing assistive technologies on semiconductor design and post-manufacturing operation, as well as developing attack and detection methods related to electronic design-level sabotage.
Our researchers have published over 100 papers and secured funding exceeding eight million dollars from government and industry sponsors..Whether you’re a part of our research team or interested in our work, we invite you to be a part of our exploration and innovation at DRACO.
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Highlights
Our Research
We develop algorithms and processes to automatically design, develop, and assess the resilience, robustness, security electronic devices and systems. Our research includes topics at various stages of investigation: advanced/novel cryptographic logic primitives (polymorphic, homomorphic, quantum-enhanced), symbiosis of AI designed constructs for AI applications, assessment and evaluation of assistive technologies on semiconductor design and post-manufacturing operation, and development and detection methods for AI-based sabotage.
All of our research and nearly all of our (~100) publications and presentations involve students. Also, most feature undergraduate and graduates as authors!
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!
We’re an open, collaborative, and welcoming group - if you’re excited and want to be an active contributor to DRACO - check out some of our active projects above, current lab members below, and then read about how to join us!