Yuichiro KANZAKI, Dr. Eng.

Affiliation

Faculty of Electronics and Information Systems Engineering,
National Institute of Technology, Kumamoto College

Associate Professor

Research Interest

Evaluation of software protection mechanisms

Education

• Doctor of Engineering, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, March 2006.
• Master of Engineering, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, March 2003.
• Bachelor of Engineering, Kobe University, March 2001.

Academic Positions Held

• Apr. 2010 - present : Associate Professor, National Institute of Technology, Kumamoto College
  • Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2016 : Honorary Academic at the Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland
• Apr. 2007 - Mar. 2010 : Assistant Professor, Kumamoto National College of Technology
• Apr. 2007 - Sep. 2007, Apr. 2008 - Sep. 2008 : Part-Time Lecturer, Prefectural University of Kumamoto
• Apr. 2006 - Mar. 2007 : Assistant, Kumamoto National College of Technology
• Apr. 2005 - Sep. 2005 : Part-Time Lecturer, Osaka Prefectural College of Technology

List of Major Publications

• Tetsuya Kitaoka, Yuichiro Kanzaki, Takashi Ishio, Kazumasa Shimari, Kenichi Matsumoto, “Reliability Evaluation Framework for Obfuscating Transformations in Program Code,” Computer Software, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 37-46, October 2023. [Paper]
• Tetsuya Kitaoka, Yuichiro Kanzaki, Takashi Ishio, Kazumasa Shimari, Kenichi Matsumoto, “ObfusEval: Evaluating Reliability of Obfuscating Transformations, ” Annual Computer Security Applications Conference 2022 (ACSAC2022), Poster Presentation, December 2022. [Poster]
• Toshiki Seto, Akito Monden, Zeynep Yücel, Yuichiro Kanzaki, "On Preventing Symbolic Execution Attacks by Low Cost Obfuscation," Proc. 20th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD 2019), July 2019.
• Yuichiro Kanzaki, Clark Thomborson, Akito Monden, and Christian Collberg, “Pinpointing and Hiding Surprising Fragments in an Obfuscated Program,” In Proc. of the 5th Program Protection and Reverse Engineering Workshop (PPREW-5), pp.8:1-8:9, December 2015. [PDF]
• Yuichiro Kanzaki, Akito Monden, and Christian Collberg, “Code Artificiality: A Metric for the Code Stealth Based on an N-gram Model,” Proc. of 1st International Workshop on Software Protection (SPRO2015), pp. 31-37, May 2015. [PDF]
• Hiroki Yamauchi, Yuichiro Kanzaki, Akito Monden, Masahide Nakamura, and Ken-ichi Matsumoto, “Software Obfuscation from Crackers' Viewpoint,” In Proc. IASTED International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Technology (IASTED ACST 2006), pp.286-291, January 2006. (Puerto Vallarta, Mexico)
• Yuichiro Kanzaki, Hiroshi Igaki, Masahide Nakamura, Akito Monden, and Ken-ichi Matsumoto, “Quantitative Analysis of Information Leakage in Security-Sensitive Software Processes,” IPSJ Journal, Special Issue on Research on Computer Security Characterized in the Context of Social Responsibilities, volume 46, number 8, pages 2129-2141, August 2005.
• Yuichiro Kanzaki, Hiroshi Igaki, Masahide Nakamura, Akito Monden, and Ken-ichi Matsumoto, “Characterizing Dynamics of Information Leakage in Security-Sensitive Software Process,” Third Australasian Information Security Workshop (AISW2005), Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, vol. 44, pp. 145-151, Australian Computer Society, Jan. 2005.
• Yuichiro Kanzaki, Akito Monden, Masahide Nakamura, and Ken-ichi Matsumoto, “Exploiting self-modification mechanism for program protection,” 27th Computer Software and Applications Conference (compsac2003), pp.170-179, Dallas, USA, Nov. 2003.
• Masahide Nakamura, Akito Monden, Tomoaki Itoh, Ken-ichi Matsumoto, Yuichiro Kanzaki, and Hirotsugu Satoh, “Queue-based cost evaluation of mental simulation process in program comprehension,” 9th IEEE International Software Metrics Symposium (METRICS2003), pp.351-360, Sydney, Australia, September 3-5, 2003.

Doctoral Dissertation

Yuichiro Kanzaki, “Protecting Secret Information in Software Processes and Products,” Doctoral Dissertation, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 2006. [PDF]