Kenta Ishiguro

I am a project assistant professor at Keio University, Japan, working with Kenji Kono. I was an associate faculty member at Hosei University working with Toshio Hirotsu. I completed my Ph.D at Keio university under the supervision of Kenji Kono.

Interests

Operating systems, Hypervisor, Software security

Publications

• Revisiting VM-Agnostic KVM vCPU Scheduler for Mitigating Excessive vCPU Spinning
  Kenta Ishiguro, Naoki Yasuno, Pierre-Louis Aublin, and Kenji Kono
  In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 34, no. 10, pp. 2615-2628, Oct. 2023
  [IEEE Xplore], [bibtex]
  
  
• zpoline: a system call hook mechanism based on binary rewriting
  Kenichi Yasukata, Hajime Tazaki, Pierre-Louis Aublin, and Kenta Ishiguro
  In Proceedings of 2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '23), Jul. 2023
  Best Paper!
  [USENIX page], [bibtex]
  
  
• Nioh-PT: Virtual I/O Filtering for Agile Protection against Vulnerability Windows
  Mana Senuki, Kenta Ishiguro, and Kenji Kono
  In Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '23), Mar. 2023
  [ACM DL], [bibtex]
  
  
• Mitigating Excessive vCPU Spinning in VM-Agnostic KVM
  Kenta Ishiguro, Naoki Yasuno, Pierre-Louis Aublin, and Kenji Kono
  In Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE '21), Apr. 2021
  [PDF], [bibtex] [patch],
  
  
• Instruction Filters for Mitigating Attacks on Instruction Emulation in Hypervisors
  Kenta Ishiguro and Kenji Kono
  In IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems Vol.E103-D No.7, Jul. 2020
  [Page]
  
  
• Hardening Hypervisors against Vulnerabilities in Instruction Emulators
  Kenta Ishiguro and Kenji Kono
  In Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Systems Security (EuroSec '18), Apr. 2018
  [PDF], [bibtex] [patch],

Poster

• Customizable Enclaves for Service Providers on Untrusted Clouds
  Terufumi Hata, Kenta Ishiguro, and Kenji Kono
  SOSP 2023
  
  
• Toward Accurate Group Scheduling in Multi-core Environments
  Kenta Ishiguro, Kenichi Yasukata, Toshio Hirotsu
  USENIX OSDI 2023

Talk

• Mitigating Excessive Pause-Loop-Exiting in VM-Agnostic KVM
  Kenta Ishiguro
  KVM Forum 2021
  [KVM Forum]
  
  
• Eurosys Doctoral Workshop 2021

Service

• EuroSys Artifact Evaluation Committee member 2022
• SOSP Artifact Evaluation Committee member 2021
• EuroSys shadow PC 2021

Contact

Email:

• kentaishiguro@slowstart.org
• kentaishiguro@sslab.ics.keio.ac.jp