Kuniyasu Suzaki, Ph.D Senior Researcher RISEC (Research Institute for Secure Systems), AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) Office: 1-1-1 Umezono Central-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8568, Japan Phone: +81-29861-2944 FAX: +81-29861-5285 E-Mail: k dot suzaki at aist dot go dot jp

Biography: Kuniyasu Suzaki was born i n Tokyo, Japan and currently a senior researcher at RCIS (Research Center of Information Security), of AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology). He got BE and ME from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Tokyo. He joined ETL(Electrotechinical Laboratory) which has been reorganized into AIST. During ETL, he work for MITI (Ministry International Trade and Industry, which has been reorganized into METI, Japan) as a government staff. He stayed at Australian National University as Visiting Fellow (1997-1998) and at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as Visiting Scientist (2001).

Current Research

• Secure Storage
  • Funded by "Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Programme" MIC (FY 2011-2013)
• Security using Virtual Machine
  • Funded by "Safety assessment of communication protocol and its implementation" NICT (FY 2010-12)
  • Funded by "Next Generation Security Info-Security R&D" METI (FY2008-10)
• Trusted Computing
  • Funded by "Special Coordination Funds for Promoting Science and Technology" MEXT (FY2006-2008)
  • Funded by "Next Generation Security Info-Security R&D" METI and IBM Japan (FY2008)
• OS Migration
  • Funded by "Exploratory Software Project" IPA (FY2004, FY2005)
• 1CD/DVD Linux
  • Maintain KNOPPIX Japanese edition 2002-
  • Funded by Alpha Systems Inc. (FY2004-2012)

Recent Academic Paper

• Kuniyasu Suzaki, Kengo Iijima,Akira Tanaka, Yutaka Oiwa, and Etsuya Shibayama, Rollback Mechanism for Secure Communication Test with Nested Virtual Machines, Runtime Environments, Systems, Layering and Virtualized Environments(RESoLVE 2013) (ASPLOS 2013's Workshop), 16/March/2013 (Houston, TX)
• Kuniyasu Suzaki, Kengo Iijima, Toshiki Yagi, and Cyrille Artho, Implementation of a Memory Disclosure Attack on Memory Deduplication of Virtual Machines, IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, Volume E96-A No.1 (Publication Date:2013/01/01, Impact Factor 0.226) Paper PDF
• Kuniyasu Suzaki, Kengo Iijima, Toshiki Yagi, and Cyrille Artho, "Effects of Memory Randomization, Sanitization and Page Cache on Memory Deduplication", 5th European Workshop on System Security (EuroSec2012). (EuroSys2012's Workshop), Bern, Swiss, April/2012, Paper PDF / Slide PDF
• Kuniyasu Suzaki, Kengo Iijima, Toshiki Yagi, and Cyrille Artho, "Memory Deduplication as a Threat to the Guest OS", 4th European Workshop on System Security (EuroSec2011). (EuroSys 2011's Workshop), Salzburg, Austria, April/2011, Paper PDF / Slide PDF
• Kuniyasu Suzaki, Kengo Iijima, Toshiki Yagi, Cyrille Artho, and Yoshihito Watanabe, "Effect of Disk Prefetching of Guest OS on Storage Deduplication", Runtime Environments/Systems, Layering, and Virtualized Environments (RESoLVE 2011) (ASPLOS2011's Workshop), Newport Beach, California, March/2011, Paper PDF/ Slide PDF
• Kuniyasu Suzaki, Kengo Iijima, Toshiki Yagi, Nguyen Anh Quynh, and Cyrille Artho, "Moving from logical sharing of guest OS to physical sharing of deduplication on virtual machine", 5th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec 2010), (USENIX SECURITY 2010's Workshop), Washington DC, August/2010, Paper PDF / Slide PDF
• Kuniyasu Suzaki, Kengo Iijima, Toshiki Yagi, and Anh Quynh, "Trusted Boot and Platform Trust Services on 1CD Linux", 3rd Asia-Pacific Trusted Infrastructure Technologies Conference (APTC 2008), Wuhan and Yichang China, October/2008, Paper PDF / Slide PDF
• Kuniyasu Suzaki, Toshiki Yagi, Kengo Iijima, and Nguyen Anh Quynh, "OS Circular: Internet Client for Reference", 21st Large Installation System Administration Conference (USENIX LISA 2007), Dallas Texas, November/2007, Paper-PDF
• Nguyen Anh Quynh and Kuniyasu Suzaki, "Xenprobes, a Lightweight User-Space Probing Framework for Xen Virtual Machine",USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2007, Santa Clara, June/2007, Paper PDF
• Jun Kanai, Mitaro Namiki, Kuniyasu Suzaki, and Toshiki Yagi, "Mobile Thin-Client System with Fault Tolerance and Scalability by HTTP-FUSE-KNOPPIX-BOX", International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, (PDPTA 2007), Las Vegas, June/2007, Paper-PDF
• Kuniyasu Suzaki, Kengo Iijima, Toshiki Yagi, Hideyuki Tan, and Kazuhiro Goto, "SFS-KNOPPIX", Fourth IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA 2005), Boston, Paper-PDF / Slide-PDF

Recent Commercial/Community Conference

• Kuniyasu Suzaki, "Security on Cloud Storage and IaaS", NSC-JST Workshop on "Information and Communication Technology",27-28/Nov/2012, Tokyo, Slide-PDF
• Kuniyasu Suzaki, Kengo Iijima, Toshiki Yagi, and Cyrille Artho, "Analyze Disk Access Pattern of File Systems for Content Addressable Storage", Linux Symposium 2011, Ottawa Canada, June/2011, Paper-PDF / Slide-PDF
• Kuniyasu Suzaki, Kengo Iijima, Toshiki Yagi, Nguyen Anh Quynh, Cyrille Artho, and Yoshihito Watanabe, "Rethink Package Components on De-Duplication: From Logical Sharing to Physical Sharing", LinuxCon Japan 2011, Tokyo Japan, September/2010, Slide PDF
• Nguyen Anh Quynh and Kuniyasu Suzaki, "Virt-ICE: next generation debugger for malware analysis", BlackHat USA 2010, Las Vegas, August/2010, Paper PDF / Slide PDF / Video(YouTube)
• Kuniyasu Suzaki, Kengo Iijima, Toshiki Yagi, Nguyen Anh Quynh, and Yoshihito Watanabe, "Effect of readahead and file system block reallocation for LBCAS (LoopBack Content Addressable Storage)", Linux Symposium 2009, Montreal Canada, July/2009, Slide-PDF / Paper-PDF
• Kuniyasu Suzaki, "OS Circular: Internet bootable OS Archive", LinuxConfAustralia2009, Hobart Tasmania Australia, January/2009, Slide-PDF
• Kuniyasu Suzaki, Toshiki Yagi, Kengo Iijima, and Nguyen Anh Quynh, "OS Circular on QEMU/KQEMU/KVM/Xen-HVM", LinuxConf Europe 2007, Cambridge UP, Sep/2007 Paper PDF / Slide PDF
• Kuniyasu Suzaki, Toshiki Yagi, Kengo Iijima, Megumi Nakamura, and Seiji Munetoh, "Trusted Boot of HTTP-FUSE KNOPPIX", Linux Konogress 2006, Nurnberg German, 2007 Paper PDF /Side PDF
• Kuniyasu Suzaki, Toshiki Yagi, Kengo Iijima, Kenji Kitagawa, and Shuichi Tashiro, "HTTP-FUSE Xenoppix", Linux Symposium 2006, Ottawa Canada, August/2006, Paper PDF / Slide PDF

Professional Activities

• Program Committe of European Workshop on System Security (EuroSec) 2013, Workshop held with EuroSys 2013.
• Program Committe of OS (Operating Systems) special track on ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC2013)
• Program Committe of OS (Operating Systems) special track on ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC2012)
• Program Committe of OS (Operating Systems) special track on ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC2011)
• Editor WG of IPSJ Magazine (FY 2006-2011)
• Board Member of Cloud Security Alliance Japan Chapter (2010- )

Award

• CJK (China/Japan/Korea) OSS Award 2011 (Click to enlarge)
• IPA (Information technology Promotion Agency, Japan) OSS Contribution award, 2010 (Japanese HP)

Etc

• Visiting Fellow at Australia National University (Host: Professor Robin Stanton) (1997-1998)
• Visiting Scientist at Illinois University Urbana Champaign (Host: Professor Klara Nahrstedt) (2001)