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I am an assistant professor in ECE @ UCLA and a research scientist at Censys. Recently, I was named to the Forbes Science 30 under 30 list. My sister, Katherine Izhikevich, also does research in Computer Science.
Email: lizhikev@ucla.edu
I lead UCLA’s Security and Networking (ScaN) Lab! Our research brings a data-driven approach to understanding the Internet’s performance and security. We build systems that learn patterns from and collect data about network, operator, and attacker behaviors. We quantitatively analyze the data our systems collect to surface critical operational challenges and threats. More details on my research vision can be found here.
In Spring’25, I am teaching ECE239AS: Computer Network Measurement and Security.
H. Clark, J. Cody, E. Cubit, Z. Durumeric, M. Ellison, L. Izhikevich, A. Mirian. Censys: A Map of Internet Hosts and Services. In ACM SIGCOMM, September 2025.
L. Izhikevich, R. Enghardt, T. Huang, R. Teixeira. A Global Perspective on the Past, Present, and Future of Video Streaming over Starlink. In ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP Performance, June 2025.
K. Izhikevich, G. Voelker, S. Savage, L. Izhikevich. Using Honeybuckets to Characterize Cloud Storage Scanning in the Wild. In Proceedings of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, July 2024.
L. Izhikevich, M. Tran, K. Izhikevich, G. Akiwate, Z. Durumeric. Democratizing LEO Satellite Network Measurement. In ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP Performance, June 2024.
L. Izhikevich, M. Tran, M. Kallitsis, A. Fass, Z. Durumeric. Cloud Watching: Understanding Attacks Against Cloud-Hosted Services. In ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2023.
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K. Izhikevich, B. Du, A. Ukani, S. Rao, L. Izhikevich. Trust, But Verify, Operator-Reported Geolocation