Rakesh Podder

Researcher in Cybersecurity, Firmware Security, AI, and Machine Learning. [Google Scholar]

Research Areas

BIOS and Firmware Security

BIOS and Firmware Security

Investigating secure boot mechanisms, trusted hardware, and more...

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S-RFUP: Secure Remote Firmware Update

S-RFUP: Secure Remote Firmware Update

We present a novel framework (S-RFUP) that integrates industry standard protocols (PLDM, MCTP)...

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AI Planning

AI Planning

We introduce the notion of Attack-Connectivity Graph (ACG) that allows us to perform simultaneous modeling of attack...

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Machine Learning

White-box Adversarial Attacks

We conduct a systematic evaluation of various white-box adversarial attacks, where...

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Formal Methods

Formal Methods

Enhancing the Protection in Transit (PIT) protocol—which locks devices during transit to prevent unauthorized firmware tampering—we formally verify...

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Resiliency Graphs

Resiliency Graphs

We present a novel modeling paradigm, Resiliency Graph (RG) that combines the power of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and AI Planning (PDDL)...

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