Feb 20, 2025
When Liz Izhikevich set out to study internet security, she didn’t expect her research to have far-reaching implications for networks orbiting the Earth. But now, as an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UCLA and a research scientist at Censys, she is redefining how researchers detect security threats on the internet—both on the ground and in space. Her work has even helped improve video streaming for over a million satellite broadband users, a discovery that helped earn her a place on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Science list for 2025.