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.

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. 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. 

12. 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. 

13. N. N. Nabilah, S. Tareq Ahmed, A. E. Olaluwe, A. Raghavendra 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.