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Research Overview

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.

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Recent Publications

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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Publications Under Submission

L. Izhikevich, R. Teixeira, Z. Durumeric. Kronos: Continuously and Comprehensively Tracking Internet Services.

K. Izhikevich, B. Du, A. Ukani, S. Rao, L. Izhikevich. Trust, But Verify, Operator-Reported Geolocation

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Adventures