Liz Izhikevich

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I am a PhD Candidate/ NSF Fellow/Stanford Graduate Fellow at the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. I am also a research fellow at Netflix, working in collaboration with SpaceX-Starlink. I am a graduate of UC San Diego (B.S. '17, M.S. '18). My sister, Katherine Izhikevich, also does research in Computer Science.

Email: lizhikev@stanford.edu


Research Overview

My research brings a data-driven approach to understanding the Internet’s performance and security. I build systems that learn patterns from and collect data about network, operator, and attacker behaviors. I use quantitative analysis, including rigorous statistics, on the data my systems collect to surface critical operational challenges and threats.


Peer-Reviewed Publications

+ indicates mentee, * indicates co-first authorship

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]

M. Ziv+, L. Izhikevich, K. Ruth, K. Izhikevich+, Z. Durumeric. ASdb: A System for Classifying Owners of Autonomous Systems. In ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2021.

J. Cable+*, D. Gregory+*, L. Izhikevich*, Z. Durumeric. Stratosphere: Finding Vulnerable Cloud Storage Buckets. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), 2021.

L. Izhikevich, R. Teixeira, Z. Durumeric. LZR: Identifying Unexpected Internet Services. In 30th USENIX Security Symposium, 2021. [Blog Post]

G. Wan, L. Izhikevich, D. Adrian, K. Yoshioka, R. Holz, C. Rossow, Z. Durumeric. On the Origin of Scanning: The Impact of Location on Internet-Wide Scans. In ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2020.

L. Ao, L. Izhikevich, G. Voelker, G. Porter. Sprocket: A Serverless Video Processing Framework for the Cloud. In Proceedings of the ninth ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (Socc’18), Carlsbad, Calif, October 2018.

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Under Submission

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


Other Publications

Izhikevich, E. Building and Breaking Burst-Parallel Systems. Masters Thesis. UC San Diego, 2018.

Moshiri, N., Izhikevich L. Design and Analysis of Data Structures. 2018. Print.

Moshiri N., Izhikevich L. Data Structures. Stepik, 2016. Online.

L. Izhikevich, R. Gao, E. Peterson, B. Voytek. Measuring the average power of neural oscillations. bioRxiv 441626; Online.

L. Izhikevich, E. Peterson, B. Voytek. Neural oscillatory power is not Gaussian distributed across time. Program No. 271.03. 2016 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience, 2016. Online.


Open Source

LZR efficiently detects and fingerprints unexpected services running on unexpected ports. Check out how Censys uses LZR.

GPS predicts IPv4 services across all 65K ports. Check out how Hunt Intelligence uses GPS.

Stratosphere uses password generation algorithms to discover publicly accessible cloud storage buckets.

ASdb is a periodically updating dataset of autonomous systems and their business categories.

ZDNS is a high-speed DNS measurement toolkit that handles billions of lookups from a single server. Check out how Peakhour uses ZDNS.

LEO HitchHiking measures LEO satellite network characteristics at scale.


Professional Service

Technical Program Committees

Department and University Service


Teaching

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