Secure and Intelligent Edge Research Lab

Pioneering the design of secure and AI-enabled systems for edge devices — spanning AI security, hardware and side-channel assurance, neural architecture search, and trustworthy embedded systems.

Acknowledgements

Sponsors

Our research is made possible by the support of the following agencies and industry partners.

  • U.S. Department of EnergyDOE
  • U.S. Department of DefenseDOD
  • U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development CenterERDC
  • U.S. National Science FoundationNSF
  • IN2FAB Technology LimitedIN2FAB
  • Maine Space Grant ConsortiumMSGC
Who we are

Team

A group of doctoral and master's researchers at the University of Maine — affiliated with Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Advanced Structures & Composites Center (ASCC) — working across AI security, microelectronics assurance, and intelligent edge systems.

Portrait of Tanzim Mahfuz

Tanzim Mahfuz

4th Year Ph.D. Scholar

AI for Microelectronic Security

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Portrait of Zafaryab Haider

Zafaryab Haider

Ph.D. Candidate

AI Security, Trustworthy AI

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Portrait of Md Hafizur Rahman

Md Hafizur Rahman

3rd Year Ph.D. Scholar

Agentic AI, System Security

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Portrait of Tasneem Suha

Tasneem Suha

3rd Year Ph.D. Scholar

Integrated HW/SW Security

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Portrait of Sarah Glatter

Sarah Glatter

2nd Year Ph.D. Scholar

Big Data, AI and RL Databases

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Portrait of Nick Millet

Nick Millet

2nd Year Ph.D. Scholar

Cybersecurity AI

Portrait of Abdullah Al Nomaan Nafi

Abdullah Al Nomaan Nafi

2nd Year Ph.D. Scholar

AI Security

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Research output

Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, and preprints from the lab and its collaborators, most recent first.

2026 Conference

Nest: Adaptive Tree-Graph Vector Database for Energy-Constrained Edge Devices

NEST ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED) · August 2026

Sarah Lorell Glatter, Prabuddha Chakraborty

2026 Preprint

(A)iSpy: Parasitic Trojans for Machine Learning Infrastructure

AISPY arXiv preprint · July 2026

Habibur Rahaman, Qipan Xu, Zafaryab Haider, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Swarup Bhunia, Fnu Suya

2026 Journal

DISARM: Target Electronic Device Informed Mitigation of Software Runtime Side-Channel Vulnerabilities

DISARM IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security · 2026

Tasneem Suha, Tanzim Mahfuz, Rima Asmar Awad, Prabuddha Chakraborty

2026 Journal

Attacking the Protections of Hardware using Trojan-Assisted Meta Attacks

ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems · June 2026

Tanvir Hossain, S M Mojahidul Ahsan, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Swarup Bhunia, Tamzidul Hoque

2026 Preprint

HARP: Measuring Harm Amplification in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

HARP arXiv preprint · May 2026

Md Hafizur Rahman, Zafaryab Haider, Tanzim Mahfuz, Prabuddha Chakraborty

2026 Preprint

LASH: Adaptive Semantic Hybridization for Black-Box Jailbreaking of Large Language Models

LASH arXiv preprint · May 2026

Abdullah Al Nomaan Nafi, Fnu Suya, Swarup Bhunia, Prabuddha Chakraborty

2026 Conference

DASH: A Meta-Attack Framework for Synthesizing Effective and Stealthy Adversarial Examples

DASH IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) · 2026

Abdullah Al Nomaan Nafi, Habibur Rahaman, Zafaryab Haider, Tanzim Mahfuz, Fnu Suya, Swarup Bhunia, Prabuddha Chakraborty

2025 Preprint

How a Bit Becomes a Story: Semantic Steering via Differentiable Fault Injection

BLADE arXiv preprint · December 2025

Zafaryab Haider, Md Hafizur Rahman, Shane Moeykens, Vijay Devabhaktuni, Prabuddha Chakraborty

2025 Journal

Secure and Trustworthy Microelectronics: Vulnerabilities, Solutions, and Trends

Journal of Hardware and Systems Security · October 2025

Sriram Prabhakara Rao, Shree Ram Abayankar Balaji, Farishta Rahman, Tasneem Suha, Tanzim Mahfuz, Tanvir Hossain, Mahmudul Hasan, Md Sakib Hasan, Tamzidul Hoque, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Prakash Ranganathan

2025 Conference

FV-PAL: Scalable Formal Verification through Partitioning and LLM-Guided Property Generation

FV-PAL IEEE 43rd International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) · November 2025

Sudipta Paria, Aritra Dasgupta, Dinesh Reddy Ankireddy, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Swarup Bhunia

2025 Journal

Intelligent Layer Sharing (ILASH): A Predictive Neural Architecture Search Framework for Multi-Task Applications

ILASH IEEE Access · 2025

Md Hafizur Rahman, Zafaryab Haider, Md Mashfiq Rizvee, Sumaiya Shomaji, Prabuddha Chakraborty

2025 Journal

TRIM: AI Guided Random Number Generation for Resource-Constrained IoT Systems

TRIM IEEE Access · 2025

Tasneem Suha, Md Hafizur Rahman, Ashley E. Rice, Colin Smith, Rima Asmar Awad, Prabuddha Chakraborty

2025 Conference

DINGO — A Distributed & Intelligent Graph Based Memory for IoT

DINGO Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) · June 2025

Sarah Glatter, Prabuddha Chakraborty

2025 Conference

POLARIS: Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Mitigating Power Side-Channel Leakage

POLARIS 62nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) · June 2025

Tanzim Mahfuz, Sudipta Paria, Tasneem Suha, Swarup Bhunia, Prabuddha Chakraborty

2025 Journal

An automated multi parameter neural architecture discovery framework using ChatGPT in the backend

LEMONADE Nature Scientific Reports · May 2025

Md Hafizur Rahman, Zafaryab Haider, Prabuddha Chakraborty

2025 Conference

SALTY: Explainable Artificial Intelligence Guided Structural Analysis for Hardware Trojan Detection

SALTY IEEE 43rd VLSI Test Symposium (VTS) · April 2025

Tanzim Mahfuz, Pravin Gaikwad, Tasneem Suha, Swarup Bhunia, Prabuddha Chakraborty

2025 Journal

A framework for mitigating malicious RLHF feedback in LLM training using consensus based reward

COBRA Nature Scientific Reports · March 2025

Zafaryab Haider, Md Hafizur Rahman, Vijay Devabhaktuni, Shane Moeykens, Prabuddha Chakraborty

2025 Journal

Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) Cybersecurity Scenarios, Trends, and Potential Technologies: A Review

DERMS IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials · 2025

Niroop Sugunaraj, Shree Ram Abayankar Balaji, Barathwaja Subash Chandar, Prashanth Rajagopalan, Utku Kose, David Charles Loper, Tanzim Mahfuz, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Seerin Ahmad, Taesic Kim, Giovanni Apruzzese, Anamika Dubey, Luka Strezoski, Benjamin Blakely, Subhojit Ghosh, Maddikara Jaya Bharata Reddy, Harsha Vardhan Padullaparti, Prakash Ranganathan

2025 Conference

CAST-Map: Cybersecurity Assessment Using Spatio-Temporal Mapping of Connected Electronics

CAST-Map IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) · January 2025

Nickolas Millett, Katherine Arsenault, Nick Tozier, Benjamin Bailey, Gregory Studer, Prabuddha Chakraborty

2024 Journal

X-DFS: Explainable Artificial Intelligence Guided Design-for-Security Solution Space Exploration

X-DFS IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security · 2024

Tanzim Mahfuz, Swarup Bhunia, Prabuddha Chakraborty

2024 Journal

A Self-Aware Digital Memory Framework Powered by Artificial Intelligence

SELF-AWARE MEMORY IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence · July 2024

Prabuddha Chakraborty, Swarup Bhunia

2024 Conference

Splitting the Secrets: A Cooperative Trust Model for System-on-Chip Designs with Untrusted IPs

IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) · July 2024

Aritra Dasgupta, Sudipta Paria, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Swarup Bhunia

2024 Conference

An Intelligent Memory Framework for Resource Constrained IoT Systems

IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) · July 2024

Prabuddha Chakraborty, Swarup Bhunia

2024 Journal

In-situ particle analysis with heterogeneous background: a machine learning approach

Nature Scientific Reports · May 2024

Adeeb Ibne Alam, Md Hafizur Rahman, Akhter Zia, Nate Lowry, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Md Rafiul Hassan, Bashir Khoda

2024 Journal

Learning Your Lock: Exploiting Structural Vulnerabilities in Logic Locking

LEARNING LOCK IEEE Design & Test · April 2024

Prabuddha Chakraborty, Jonathan Cruz, Rasheed Almawzan, Tanzim Mahfuz, Swarup Bhunia

2023 Journal

A Framework for Automated Exploration of Trojan Attack Space in FPGA Netlists

IEEE Transactions on Computers · 2023

Jonathan Cruz, Christopher Posada, Naren Vikram Raj Masna, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Pravin Gaikwad, Swarup Bhunia

2023 Conference

Hardware Specification Aware Timing Side Channel Security Analysis

IEEE 36th International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC) · September 2023

Prabuddha Chakraborty, Tasneem Suha, Swarup Bhunia

2023 Journal

Hardware IP Assurance against Trojan Attacks with Machine Learning and Post-processing

ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems · 2023

Pravin Gaikwad, Jonathan Cruz, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Swarup Bhunia, Tamzidul Hoque

2023 Journal

SAVIOR: A Sustainable Network of Vehicles with Near-Perpetual Mobility

SAVIOR IEEE Internet of Things Magazine · June 2023

Prabuddha Chakraborty, Reiner N. Dizon-Paradis, Swarup Bhunia

2023 Conference

Understanding the Innovations Required for a Green & Secure Artificial Intelligence Paradigm

EFFICIENT-AI IEEE 16th Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference (DCAS) · April 2023

Md Mashfiq Rizvee, Md Hafizur Rahman, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Sumaiya Shomaji

2022 Conference

A Machine Learning Based Automatic Hardware Trojan Attack Space Exploration and Benchmarking Framework

Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST) · 2022

Jonathan Cruz, Pravin Gaikwad, Abhishek Nair, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Swarup Bhunia

2022 Conference

Automatic Software Timing Attack Evaluation & Mitigation on Clear Hardware Assumption

37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) · 2022

Prabuddha Chakraborty

2022 Conference

AI-Driven Assurance of Hardware IP against Reverse Engineering Attacks

IEEE International Test Conference (ITC) · 2022

Prabuddha Chakraborty, Swarup Bhunia

2022 Conference

VIPR-PCB: A Machine Learning Based Golden-Free PCB Assurance Framework

VIPR-PCB 59th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) · 2022

Aritra Bhattacharyay, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Jonathan Cruz, Swarup Bhunia

2022 Journal

Trojan Resilient Computing in COTS Processors Under Zero Trust

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems · 2022

Mahmudul Hasan, Jonathan Cruz, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Swarup Bhunia, Tamzidul Hoque

2022 Journal

An Automated Framework for Board-Level Trojan Benchmarking

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems · 2022

Aritra Bhattacharyay, Shuo Yang, Jonathan Cruz, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Swarup Bhunia, Tamzidul Hoque

2022 Journal

Golden-Free Hardware Trojan Detection Using Self-Referencing

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems · 2022

Shuo Yang, Tamzidul Hoque, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Swarup Bhunia

2022 Journal

Addressing the Range Anxiety of Battery Electric Vehicles with Charging En Route

Nature Scientific Reports · 2022

Prabuddha Chakraborty, Robert Parker, Tamzidul Hoque, Jonathan Cruz, Lili Du, Shuo Wang, Swarup Bhunia

2022 Journal

ARTS: A Framework for AI-Rooted IoT System Design Automation

ARTS IEEE Embedded Systems Letters · 2022

Prabuddha Chakraborty, Reiner N. Dizon-Paradis, Swarup Bhunia

2022 Journal

Pasteables: A Flexible and Smart “Stick-and-Peel” Wearable Platform for Fitness and Athletics

IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine · 2022

Reiner N. Dizon-Paradis, Rohan Reddy Kalavakonda, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Swarup Bhunia

2022 Journal

BINGO: Brain-Inspired Learning Memory

BINGO Neural Computing and Applications · 2022

Prabuddha Chakraborty, Swarup Bhunia

2021 Journal

SAIL: Analyzing Structural Artifacts of Logic Locking Using Machine Learning

SAIL IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security · 2021

Prabuddha Chakraborty, Jonathan Cruz, Abdulrahman Alaql, Swarup Bhunia

2021 Journal

LeGO: A Learning-Guided Obfuscation Framework for Hardware IP Protection

LEGO IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems · 2021

Abdulrahman Alaql, Saranyu Chattopadhyay, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Tamzidul Hoque, Swarup Bhunia

2021 Journal

HASTE: Software Security Analysis for Timing Attacks on Clear Hardware Assumption

HASTE IEEE Embedded Systems Letters · 2021

Prabuddha Chakraborty, Jonathan Cruz, Christopher Posada, Sandip Ray, Swarup Bhunia

2021 Conference

Side-Channel Analysis for Hardware Trojan Detection Using Machine Learning

IEEE International Test Conference India (ITC India) · 2021

Shuo Yang, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Swarup Bhunia

2021 Conference

Trusted Electronic Systems with Untrusted COTS

22nd International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) · 2021

Shuo Yang, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Patanjali SLPSK, Swarup Bhunia

2021 Preprint

Neural Storage: A New Paradigm of Elastic Memory

arXiv preprint · 2021

Prabuddha Chakraborty, Swarup Bhunia

2020 Journal

MAGIC: Machine-Learning-Guided Image Compression for Vision Applications in Internet of Things

MAGIC IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 2020

Prabuddha Chakraborty, Jonathan Cruz, Swarup Bhunia

2020 Conference

P2C2: Peer-to-Peer Car Charging

P2C2 IEEE 91st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2020-Spring) · 2020

Prabuddha Chakraborty, Robert Parker, Tamzidul Hoque, Jonathan Cruz, Swarup Bhunia

2019 Conference

SURF: Joint Structural Functional Attack on Logic Locking

SURF IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) · 2019

Prabuddha Chakraborty, Jonathan Cruz, Swarup Bhunia

2018 Conference

SAIL: Machine Learning Guided Structural Analysis Attack on Hardware Obfuscation

SAIL Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST) · 2018

Prabuddha Chakraborty, Jonathan Cruz, Swarup Bhunia

2018 Conference

Hardware IP Trust Validation: Learn (the Untrustworthy), and Verify

IEEE International Test Conference (ITC) · 2018

Tamzidul Hoque, Jonathan Cruz, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Swarup Bhunia

2017 Preprint

Learning to Estimate Pose by Watching Videos

arXiv preprint · 2017

Prabuddha Chakraborty, Vinay P. Namboodiri

Technology transfer

Inventions

Patents and patent applications arising from this research, grouped by the institution holding them.

University of Maine

6 provisional applications Current lab portfolio

Bit-Flip Induced Semantic Drift in Multimodal Transformer Models

U.S. Provisional No. 63/930,131

Zafaryab Haider, Md Hafizur Rahman, Shane Moeykens, Prabuddha Chakraborty

Bit flip analysis via differentiable estimation.

Methods and Systems for the Automated Generation of Neural Network Architectures

WO 2025/166046 A1

Md Hafizur Rahman, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Zafaryab Haider

A framework that automatically generates architectures against user preferences such as FPS, accuracy, and energy.

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Methods and Systems for the Design and Use of Intelligent Layer Shared Neural Networks and Model Architecture Search Algorithms

WO 2025/049978 A1

Prabuddha Chakraborty, Md Hafizur Rahman, Sumaiya Shomaji, Md Mashfiq Rizvee

Searches networks for multi-task applications using a layer-sharing approach; the predictive method reduces overall search time.

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Leakage-Aware Secure Transformations (LAST) and POLARIS for Power Side-Channel Mitigation

U.S. Provisional No. 63/827,407

Prabuddha Chakraborty, Tanzim Mahfuz, Tasneem Farhana Suha, Swarup Bhunia, Sudipta Paria

An AI-driven framework that generates and optimally inserts masked logic solutions to significantly reduce power side-channel leakage in digital hardware.

Framework for Mitigating Malicious RLHF Feedback in LLM Training Using Consensus Based Reward

U.S. Provisional No. 63/768,361

Zafaryab Haider, Md Hafizur Rahman, Shane Moeykens, Prabuddha Chakraborty

Makes AI training safer when you cannot fully control or verify every human giving feedback.

Live Tracking of Cyber Components and AI Guided Automated Vulnerability Detection & Fixing

WO 2025/097073 A1

Nickolas Millett, Katherine Arsenault, Prabuddha Chakraborty

Tracks cyber components in real time to build a digital twin, which then drives automated AI vulnerability assessment; the resulting fixes can be applied to the production environment.

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University of Florida

8 granted · 6 applications Held by UF from earlier research

Predictive joint compression and encryption for images and videos

U.S. Patent 12,058,238

Swarup Bhunia, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Jonathan W. Cruz, Tamzidul Hoque, T. T. Nguyen

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Multi-level battery systems for battery-operated entities, methods for rapid charge transfer therebetween, and methods for optimizing entity routing and network charge distribution

U.S. Patent 12,049,151

Shuo Wang, Swarup Bhunia, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Robert Parker, Rohan Reddy Kalavakonda

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Smart infrastructures and first-responder network for security and safety hazards

U.S. Patent 12,024,201

Prabuddha Chakraborty, Reiner Dizon-Paradis, Christopher Vega, Joel B. Harley, Sandip Ray, Swarup Bhunia, et al.

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Drone-based administration of remotely located instruments and gadgets

U.S. Patent 11,978,023

Swarup Bhunia, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Reiner Dizon-Paradis, Patrick Difuntorum, Christopher Vega, et al.

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System and method for a battery on wheels (BoW) for charging mobile battery-operated units

U.S. Patent 11,890,957

Prabuddha Chakraborty, Swarup Bhunia, Christopher M. Vega

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System and method for charging a network of mobile battery-operated units on-the-go

U.S. Patent 11,376,979

Prabuddha Chakraborty, Swarup Bhunia

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Learning guided obfuscation framework for hardware IP protection

U.S. Patent 11,341,283

Abdulrahman Alaql, Saranyu Chattopadhyay, Swarup Bhunia, Prabuddha Chakraborty

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Systems and methods for machine intelligence based malicious design alteration insertion

U.S. Patent 11,321,510

Swarup Bhunia, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Abhishek A. Nair, Tamzidul Hoque, Jonathan W. Cruz, Naren Vikram Raj Masna, et al.

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Learning memory systems and methods

US 2025/0173264 A1

Swarup Bhunia, Prabuddha Chakraborty

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Spatio-temporal intelligent digital memory systems and methods

US 2024/0104362 A1

Swarup Bhunia, Prabuddha Chakraborty

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Framework for sustainable recharging of battery electric vehicles with near-perpetual mobility

US 2023/0331113 A1

Swarup Bhunia, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Reiner Dizon-Paradis

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Learning-rooted IoT platform

US 2023/0029652 A1

Swarup Bhunia, Reiner Dizon-Paradis, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Rohan Reddy Kalavakonda, Patrick Difuntorum

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Brain inspired learning memory systems and methods

US 2021/0389881 A1

Swarup Bhunia, Prabuddha Chakraborty

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Multi-purpose context-aware bump (CAB) supporting dynamic adaptation of form factors and functionality

US 2020/0380868 A1

Swarup Bhunia, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Lili Du, Sandip Ray

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