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Shinagawa Lab
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The lab studies system software that forms the foundation of computers, such as operating systems and virtualization technology.
AboutAbout the lab
Improving security and performance from the foundation of computers.
The Shinagawa Lab studies system software, centered on operating systems (OS) and virtualization software.
System software holds special privileges that allow it to control the entire computer, and it greatly affects the performance and security of the whole system.
Through new system abstractions, the lab aims to improve the security and performance of today's computers.
Because Building 7 of the Faculty of Science is under renovation, the lab has temporarily moved to Building 8 of the Faculty of Engineering (faculty offices) and Building 12 of the Faculty of Engineering (student rooms), as of September 2026.
Key terms
- System software
- Software, such as an OS, that controls the entire computer and provides the foundation on which applications run
- Hypervisor
- Software that runs multiple virtual computers (virtual machines) on a single physical computer
- Fuzzing
- A technique that feeds a program large numbers of automatically generated inputs to trigger malfunctions and uncover vulnerabilities
NewsLab news
A doctoral student presented research results at the international conference EuroSys 2026
A paper was accepted to IEEE S&P 2026, an international conference on security
A doctoral student presented research results at the international conference ACSAC 2025
A paper was accepted to ICSE 2026, an international conference on software engineering
A doctoral student received a Distinguished Paper Award at ACM CCS 2025
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies cutting-edge system software, including operating systems, virtualization technology, and trusted execution environments (TEEs). It works both on improving security through system software and on improving performance and functionality.
*Illustrative imageSecure Isolated Execution Environments
The lab studies isolated execution environments that minimize the damage caused by compromised software. Its work includes hardening sandboxes, BitVisor (a hypervisor developed in Japan), and mechanisms built on confidential virtual machines.
*Illustrative imageLow-Level Fuzzing
The lab studies methods for applying fuzzing to low-level system software that underpins containers, nested virtualization, and more. It also works on new visualization techniques that help analyze the root causes of the crashes that are found.
*Illustrative imageBroad Security Countermeasures
The lab studies use-after-free defenses that take advantage of new CPU features, a system that helps developers migrate to a memory-safe language through automatic C-to-Rust translation, and malware analysis using machine learning.
*Illustrative imageOS Technologies for Better Performance and Functionality
The lab works on a mechanism that uses FPGAs to virtualize memory operations inside the kernel, and on designing an architecture that makes device drivers easier to reuse in order to support the development of new OSes.
MembersFaculty
The Shinagawa Lab consists of faculty members, technical assistants, doctoral and master's students, and exchange students.As of 2026
- ProfessorTakahiro ShinagawaPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Alx source snippet” Tino / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Secure Isolated Execution Environments: “Wikimedia Foundation Servers-8055 13” Victorgrigas / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Low-Level Fuzzing: “Linux kernel panic on an information screen” Rani777 / CC0 (cropped)
- Broad Security Countermeasures: “RustCodeOnScreen” Slashme / CC0 (cropped)
- OS Technologies for Better Performance and Functionality: “Green circuit board II ( )” Peter Shanks from Hobart, Australia / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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