Selected projects reflecting the technical depth Dr. Martin brings to expert witness work, research, and teaching. These span firmware security, embedded systems, systems engineering, and hardware investigation.
Dr. Martin maintains a dedicated hardware analysis laboratory equipped for the component-level investigation, firmware extraction, and forensic analysis that his expert witness and research work requires. The lab includes oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, stereo microscopes, hot-air and infrared rework stations, soldering stations, programmable power supplies, and a range of device-specific diagnostic tools.
This equipment supports board-level fault isolation, firmware dumping and analysis, signal capture and protocol decoding, and component-level repair — capabilities that are directly applied in litigation involving hardware failures, embedded system disputes, and firmware forensics. Outside of professional work, he has performed component-level repair, firmware modification, and low-level hardware analysis across dozens of platforms — including BIOS and ECU firmware flashing, GPU cross-flashing, PLL overclocking, CPU pin modification, and custom firmware installation on locked-down consumer devices.
Single-socket EPYC workstation running frontier-class 600B+ parameter language models locally, with 1TB RAM, 128GB VRAM across four AMD Radeon Pro V620 GPUs, and 200TB of integrated storage.
Custom Linux distribution designed as an integrated workbench environment for technical computing, systems analysis, and engineering workflows.
Ongoing design and operation of virtualization environments across VMware ESXi and Proxmox, supporting development, security research, expert witness work, and AI inference workloads.
Designed and built multiple high-capacity ZFS-based storage servers from enterprise and consumer hardware for data archival, backup, and network-attached storage.
Built a Hadoop distributed computing cluster on PowerPC architecture for large-scale data processing and analysis.
A hardware security add-on for IoT-class processors that builds control-flow profiles and enforces secure execution on embedded devices.
Commercial security analysis platform that scans firmware, containers, and virtual machine images for known vulnerabilities and cryptographic implementation flaws, with automated CVE cross-referencing against NIST’s National Vulnerability Database.
Replacing proprietary BIOS/UEFI with open-source Coreboot firmware on various platforms, including custom firmware builds and direct SPI flash chip programming.
Board-level diagnostics, component-level repair, firmware extraction, and hardware investigation across laptop and embedded system platforms.
System for identifying potential instantiations of any algorithm within a binary executable program. Developed at Johns Hopkins University and presented to the National Security Agency.
IDA Pro plugin and emulator for observing how binary instruction snippets from malware samples modify their computing environment. Developed in collaboration with the NSA.
Built an automated malware sample analysis platform using VMware CLI automation to test antivirus products. Results were used in nationally published product evaluations.
Engaged to analyze and defeat the digital rights management protections on a mobile digital content distribution platform, cataloguing multiple independent methods of circumvention.
Real-time web-based dashboard for analyzing and securing smart grid network traffic. Subsequently patented and commercialized.
Design and deployment of high-performance network appliances including OpenBSD routers with custom DPI, PF and OPNSense firewalls, and purpose-built network security infrastructure.
Secure indoor location-sensing system using tamper-resistant Bluetooth Low Energy beacons to provide unspoofable location for healthcare authentication and access control.
Discovered multiple vulnerabilities in a commercially deployed infusion pump system, including a remote code execution vulnerability. Developed a working exploit achieving arbitrary code execution on the device.
Research system for enforcing minimum necessary access in healthcare IT through integration of audit logs and access control policies. Patented.