Liz Izhikevich

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I am an Assistant Professor in ECE @ UCLA and a senior security researcher 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

Peer-Reviewed Publications

* indicates co-first authorship

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]

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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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.