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I am an Assistant Professor in ECE @ UCLA. I am also a researcher at Censys and collaborate closely with Netflix and SpaceX-Starlink. I am a graduate of UC San Diego (B.S. '17, M.S. '18) and Stanford (Ph.D. '24). 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 my systems collect to surface critical operational challenges and threats. More details on my research vision can be found here.
For those of you looking for example materials, you can find my statements from the ‘23-‘24 job market here: Research, Diversity, and Teaching.
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.
L. Izhikevich, G. Akiwate, B. Berger, S. Drakontaidis, A. Ascheman, P. Pearce, D. Adrian, Z. Durumeric. ZDNS: A Fast DNS Toolkit for Internet Measurement. In ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2022. *Community Contribution Award* [Blog Post]
L. Izhikevich, R. Teixeira, Z. Durumeric. Predicting IPv4 Services Across All Ports. In ACM SIGCOMM, 2022. [Blog Post]
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K. Izhikevich, B. Du, A. Ukani, S. Rao, L. Izhikevich. Trust, But Verify, Operator-Reported Geolocation