Publications

Journal Papers

1. M. R. Gurram, D. I. Idowu, Y. S. Nadella, N. N. Nabilah, S. Bista, M. Chouikha, A. Annamalai, and A. R. Kulkarni, “Autonomous LLM-Orchestrated Side-Channel Extraction Against Fully Unrolled and Masked Architectures,” Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2026/1085, https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1754.

2. A. Olaluwe, N. N. Nabilah, S. Tareq, A. R. Kulkarni, and A. Annamalai, “Machine Learning and Side-Channel Attacks on Post-Quantum Cryptography,” arXive, https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1754.

3. U.Das, M. Rahman, A Kulkarni, M. Tehranipoor, and F. Farimah, “PSCMark: Power Side Channel-Based Watermarking for SoC IPs Using Clock Gates,” in ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), doi:doi.org/10.1145/3747293

4. P. P. Sarker, U. Das, N. Varshney, S. Shi, A. Kulkarni, F. Farahmandi, and M. Tehranipoor, “When Everyday Devices Become Weapons: A Closer Look at the Pager and Walkie-talkie Attacks,” arXive, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.17405, 2025. doi: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.17405.

5. F. Alsulami, A. R. Kulkarni, N. A. Hazari and M. Y. Niamat, "ZEBRA: Zero Trust Architecture Employing Blockchain Technology and ROPUF for AMI Security," in IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 119868-119883, 2024, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3449702.

6. A. Kulkarni, N. A. Hazari and M. Y. Niamat, "A Zero Trust-Based Framework Employing Blockchain Technology and Ring Oscillator Physical Unclonable Functions for Security of Field Programmable Gate Array Supply Chain," in IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 89322-89338, 2024, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3418572.

7. M. R. Muttaki, M. H. Rahman, A. Kulkarni, M. Tehranipoor and F. Farahmandi, "FTC: A Universal Framework for Fault-Injection Attack Detection and Prevention," in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, doi:10.1109/TVLSI.2024.3384531.

8. T. Zhang, S. Shi, M. H. Rahman, N. Varshney, A. Kulkarni, F. Farahmandi, & M. Tehranipoor, "INSPECT: Investigating Supply Chain and Cyber-Physical Security of Battery Systems," 2024 eprint.iacr.org/2024/211. Available: https://ia.cr/2024/211.

Conference Papers

1. C. J. Stance, M. R. Gurram, D. I. Idowu, and A. R. Kulkarni, " CRYPTIC: CRYptographic FPGA Targeting through Intelligent Corruption," NAECON 2026 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, Cincinnati, OH, USA, 2026, (Accepted – Under print).

2. H. Hussein, Y. S. Nadella, S. Bista, and, A. R. Kulkarni, " HAMMER-X: Cross-Generational RowHammer Simulation Asymmetry in Hammulator," NAECON 2026 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, Cincinnati, OH, USA, 2026, (Accepted – Under print).

3. J. C. Osuorah, D. I. Idowu, O. A. Ajike, A. T. Aderinto, A. R. Kulkarni, M. Chouikha, and A. Annamalai, " JADA: Joint Adaptive Data Acquisition for PUF Modeling," NAECON 2026 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, Cincinnati, OH, USA, 2026, (Accepted – Under print).

4. N. N. Nabilah, M. R. Gurram, Y. S. Nadella, S. Bista, C. J. Stance, H. A. Hussein, A. R. Kulkarni, A. Annamalai "Distill-and-Rank: Evaluating Fast Transformer Models for Keyless PQC Side-Channel Recovery," 2026 IEEE 69th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Cincinnati, OH, USA, 2025 (Accepted – Under print).

5. S. Bista, M. R. Gurram, Y. S. Nadella, N. N. Nabilah, A. Annamalai, A. R. Kulkarni, " ADAPT: Attack-Defense Agent Pipeline for Fault Injection Resilience in Kyber NTT Hardware," 2026 IEEE 69th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Cincinnati, OH, USA, 2025 (Accepted – Under print).

6. M. R. Gurram, M. D. Gurram, T. Acharya, and A. R. Kulkarni, “SAPH-kyber: Stage-aware pipeline hardening for CRYSTALS-kyber NTT against transient faults,” in 2026 2nd International Conference on Secure IoT, Assured and Trusted Computing (SATC), Houston, TX, USA, 2026, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/SATC69565.2026.11542429.

7. O. A. Ajike, T. Acharya, M. Chouikha, A. Annamalai, A. Kulkarni, S. T. Ahmed “Covert Data Exfiltration via Electromagnetic Side-Channel Emissions from Computer Memory,” 2025 4th International Conference on Smart Cities, Automation & Intelligent Computing Systems (ICON-SONICS), Malacca, Malaysia, 2025, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/ICONSONICS67145.2025.11309245.

8. N. N. Nabilah, S. J. Chowdhury, A. Oun, A. R. Kulkarni and A. Annamalai, "DeepAttack: X-Deep Side-Channel Attacks on Encryption Algorithm," 2025 IEEE Physical Assurance and Inspection of Electronics (PAINE), Denver, CO, USA, 2025, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/PAINE66113.2025.11320217.

9. R. A. Dobbali, A. R. Kulkarni and M. Niamat, "A Generative AI Approach Using Synthetic Side-Channel Signals for Detecting Hardware Trojans in FPGAs," 2025 IEEE 68th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Lansing/E. Lansing, MI, USA, 2025, pp. 1095-1099, doi: 10.1109/MWSCAS53549.2025.11244481.

10. T. H. Syed, A. R. Kulkarni, R. A. Dobbali and M. Niamat, "CRACK: Compromising ROPUFs via Augmented Challenges Using Knowledge-Driven Models," 2025 IEEE 68th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Lansing/E. Lansing, MI, USA, 2025, pp. 1085-1089, doi: 10.1109/MWSCAS53549.2025.11244444.

11. N. N. Nabilah, S. Tareq Ahmed, A. E. Olaluwe, A. R. Kulkarni, A. Annamalai and M. Chouikha, "DACOIT: Deep-Learning Assisted CNN Ensemble for Side-Channel Attacks on Tiny AES Devices," NAECON 2025 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, Dayton, OH, USA, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/NAECON65708.2025.11235438.

12. S. T. Ahmed, Y. S. Nadella, A. R. Kulkarni, A. Annamalai and M. Chouikha, "PiTFiT: Payload-Level Bit-Flip Attacks on Stateless IoT Broadcasting Protocols," NAECON 2025 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, Dayton, OH, USA, 2025,pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/NAECON65708.2025.11235480.

13. S. T. Ahmed, T. Acharya, R. L. Kini and A. R. Kulkarni, "CAPS: Cybersecurity Analysis for Aerospace Power Systems," NAECON 2025 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, Dayton, OH, USA, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/NAECON65708.2025.11235418.

14. A. R. Kulkarni and M. Niamat, "FiTBiT: FPGA File Transfer system powered by Blockchain Technology," NAECON 2025 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, Dayton, OH, USA, 2025, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/NAECON65708.2025.11235349.

15. T. H. Syed, A. R. Kulkarni and M. Niamat, "Vulnerability Analysis Employing a Generative Adversarial Network Model for a Ring Oscillator Physical Unclonable Function," 2025 1st International Conference on Secure IoT, Assured and Trusted Computing (SATC), Dayton, OH, USA, 2025, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/SATC65530.2025.11136906.

16. M. Saraf, A. R. Kulkarni and M. Niamat, "Detecting Hardware Trojans: Deep Learning Solutions Combining PUF Metrics and Side-Channel Observations," 2025 1st International Conference on Secure IoT, Assured and Trusted Computing (SATC), Dayton, OH, USA, 2025, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/SATC65530.2025.11137155.

17. H. Bhattarai, A. R. Kulkarni and M. Niamat, "Fuzzy Logic Based Zero Trust Architecture for Security of AMI in Smart Grids," 2025 1st International Conference on Secure IoT, Assured and Trusted Computing (SATC), Dayton, OH, USA, 2025, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/SATC65530.2025.11137056.

18. H. Bhattarai, A. Kulkarni and M. Niamat, "Trust Score-Based Zero Trust Architecture for Advanced Metering Infrastructure Security," NAECON 2024 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, Dayton, OH, USA, 2024, pp. 334-339, doi: 10.1109/NAECON61878.2024.10670642.

19. A. Kulkarni, A. Niraula, H. Bhattarai and M. Niamat, "A Zero Trust Architecture employing Blockchain and Ring Oscillator Physical Unclonable Function for Internet-of-Things," 2024 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (eIT), Eau Claire, WI, USA, 2024, pp. 508-513, doi: 10.1109/eIT60633.2024.10609880.

20. M. Saraf, T. H. Syed, A. Kulkarni and M. Niamat, "Hardware Trojan Detection employing Machine Learning, Physical Unclonable Functions and Side Channel Analysis," 2024 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (eIT), Eau Claire, WI, USA, 2024, pp. 514-519, doi: 10.1109/eIT60633.2024.10609912.

21. A. Kulkarni, H. Bhattarai, T. H. Syed and M. Niamat, "Protecting Hardware IP by Employing Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), "NAECON 2023 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, Dayton, OH, USA, 2023, pp. 187-191, doi: 10.1109/NAECON58068.2023.10365737.

22. A. Kulkarni, N. A. Hazari and M. Niamat, "Ring Oscillator PUF and Blockchain: A Way of Securing Post Fabrication FPGA Supply Chain," 2023 IEEE 66th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Tempe, AZ, USA, 2023, pp. 35-39, doi: 10.1109/MWSCAS57524.2023.10405953.

23. A. Kulkarni, N. A. Hazari and M. Niamat, "Towards Blockchain-enabled Mask Writing for Security against Hardware Trojan Intrusion," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (eIT), Romeoville, IL, USA, 2023, pp. 436- 441, doi: 10.1109/eIT57321.2023.10187268.

24. A. Kulkarni, N. A. Hazari, and M. Niamat, "A Blockchain Technology Approach for the Security and Trust of the IC Supply Chain," 2019 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON), 2019, pp. 249-252, doi: 10.1109/NAECON46414.2019.9058027.