Katherine Izhikevich

About Me

I am a Master’s Student in Computer Science at UC San Diego. I am co-advised by Geoff Voelker and Stefan Savage at Sysnet. I received my B.S. in Mathematics-Computer Science from UCSD in 2022. In my free time I enjoy listening to music, dancing, reading, writing, and hiking. My favorite hiking buddy is, coincidentally, a big collaborator of mine. You can find her website here: Liz Izhikevich.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

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 2022 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research V.1 (ICER 2022), 2022

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.

See Google Scholar for more info.

Lab Affiliations

UCSD Sysnet: [December 2021 - Present]
- Collaborating with Postdoc Grant Ho to detect reconnaissance activities on Active Directory accounts. (September 2022 - Present)
- Collaborating with Liz Izhikevich on empirically studying the security risks of serverless storage in the cloud. (December 2021 - December 2022)
Computing Education: [June 2021 - March 2022]
- Collaborating with Prof. Christine Alvarado and Kyeling Ong on studying how under-represented minorities, women, and transfer students experience the CSE Early Research Scholars Program at UCSD. See ICER ‘22 publication above.
Bioinformatics: [August 2021 - February 2022]
- Collaborating with Prof. Niema Moshiri, Dr. Joel Wertheim, and PhD student Jonathan Pekar on the phylogenetics of early SARS-CoV-2 by simulating epidemics to determine how transmission dynamics affect the phylogenetic structure of SARS-CoV-2 and viral outbreaks more generally. See Science publication above.
Stanford Empirical Security Research Group: [August 2020 - May 2021]
- See IMC ‘21 publication above.

Teaching

Graduate Instructional Assistant (at UC San Diego):
- 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

Travel grant recipient to IMC 2022 in Nice, France
Travel grant recipient to SIGCOMM 2022 in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Recipient of the Gary C Reynolds Scholarship @UC San Diego for exceptional promise in making future contributions in the field of Math-Computer Science (2021-22)
Warren College Honors Society (Undergrad)
Provost Honors (Undergrad)
Torrey Pines High School Math Department Recognition Award for Achievement, Dedication, and Excellence
Torrey Pines High School English Department Recognition Award for Achievement, Dedication, and Excellence
Torrey Pines High School Falcon Alumni Scholar

Extracurriculars / Mentoring

Founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics, UCSD undergraduate branch.
Member of Women in Computing.
Mentor for EmpowHer, an all-female high school Hackathon.