Liz Izhikevich
Assistant Professor at UCLA
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLiz Izhikevich is an assistant professor at UCLA and a computer scientist with 11 years of experience spanning networking, security, and distributed systems. She completed a PhD at Stanford where she researched computer networking and security under Zakir Durumeric and Renata Teixeira, building on earlier work in serverless and data-intensive cloud video processing. Her research combines systems design with security measurement—past work includes investigating side channels in AWS Lambda and challenging statistical assumptions in neuroscience signal analysis. She has a strong teaching and mentorship background from UC San Diego, tutoring and instructing multiple core CS courses. Based in San Diego, she bridges rigorous academic research with practical cloud and ML-oriented systems engineering. Colleagues describe her as someone who blends experimental measurement with system-building to uncover subtle real-world vulnerabilities.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Russian, French
Github Skills (23)
scanner10
coredns10
port-scanning10
dns-lookup10
security10
ports10
ipv410
golang10
network10
scanning10
nmap9
dns9
go9
cli9
science8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
stanford-esrg/lzr
Feb 2020 - Aug 2022
LZR quickly detects and fingerprints unexpected services running on unexpected ports.
Contributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 235 commits in 2 years 6 months
golangsecurity-toolsipv4port-scannersecurity
LizIzhikevich/lizizhikevich.github.io
Jul 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:247 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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