Katherine Izhikevich

About Me

I am a 3rd year Computer Science PhD Department Fellow at UC San Diego, broadly studying the security and performance of networks, co-advised by Geoff Voelker and Stefan Savage at Sysnet. I received my M.S. in Computer Science from UCSD in 2024 and B.S. in Mathematics-Computer Science from UCSD in 2022. My sister, Liz Izhikevich, is an Assistant Professor at UCLA ECE.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Katherine Izhikevich, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage, Liz Izhikevich. Using Honeybuckets to Characterize Cloud Storage Scanning in the Wild. In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Vienna, Austria, July 2024.

Liz Izhikevich, Manda Tran, Katherine Izhikevich, Gautam Akiwate, Zakir Durumeric. Democratizing LEO Satellite Network Measurement. In Proceedings of the 50th ACM SIGMETRICS, Venice, Italy, June 2024.

Ben Du, Katherine Izhikevich, Sumanth Rao, Gautam Akiwate, Cecilia Testart, Alex Snoeren, KC Claffy. IRRegularities in the Internet Routing Registry. In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Montréal, Canada 2023.

Pekar JE, Magee A, Parker E, Moshiri N, Izhikevich K, Havens JL, Gangavarapu K, Malpica Serrano LM, Crits-Christoph A, Matteson NL, Zeller M, Levy JI, Wang JC, Hughes S, Lee J, Park H, Park MS, Ching Zi Yan K, Tzer Pin Lin R, Mat Isa MN, Muhammad Noor Y, Vasylyeva TI, Garry RF, Holmes EC, Rambaut A, Suchard MA, Andersen KG, Worobey M, Wertheim JO (2022). “The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2.” Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.abp8337

Katherine Izhikevich, Kyeling Ong, and Christine Alvarado. 2022. Exploring Group Dynamics in a Group-Structured Computing Undergraduate Research Experience. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Computing Education Research, Lugano, Switzerland, 2022.

Maya Ziv, Liz Izhikevich, Kimberly Ruth, Katherine Izhikevich, Zakir Durumeric. ASdb: A System for Classifying Owners of Autonomous Systems. In Proceedings of the 21st ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Virtual, 2021.

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Service

IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2025 Program Committee

Teaching

Graduate Instructional Assistant (at UC San Diego):
- CSE291: Security, Privacy, and US Law (Spring 2023)
- CSE291/DSC291: Information Manipulation: Trustworthiness of Information in Cyberspace (Winter 2023)
- CSE100: Advanced Data Structures in C++ (Fall 2022: 400 students)
Undergraduate Instructional Assistant (at UC San Diego):
- CSE100: Advanced Data Structures in C++ (Winter 2022: 470 students)
- CSE100: Advanced Data Structures in C++ (Fall 2021: 230 students)

Awards, Grants, and Scholarships

San Diego ARCS Scholar via the Ellen Browning Scripps Foundation (2024)
UCSD CSE MS to PhD Department Fellowship (2024)
UCSD CSE Masters Award for Excellence in Research (2024)
Stephen L. Squires Scholar from ACSA and CRA (2023)
Graduated with Honors from UC San Diego (2022)
Gary C Reynolds Scholar @UC San Diego for exceptional promise in making future contributions in the field of Math-Computer Science (2021)
Warren College Honors Society (Undergrad)
Provost Honors (Undergrad)

Extracurriculars / Mentoring

Co-mentor for the UCSD Early Research Scholars Program (2023-24)
Graduate Mentor for UCSD Graduate Women in Computing (2023-24)
Graduate Mentor for UCSD International Students & Programs Office (2023-24)
Founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics, UCSD undergraduate branch (2021-22)
Member of Undergraduate Women in Computing (2020-22)
Mentor for EmpowHer, an all-female high school Hackathon (2020-21)