About Me
Pronunciation: [ˈmilɑn loʷpuˈɦaʔa ˈzʋakəmbɛrχ]
I am an assistant professor at the FMT group, working on the CAESAR project under Mariëlle Stoelinga. My research focuses on mathematical properties of privacy, security and safety metrics and their applications. In particular I have studied differential privacy and its applications in data aggregation, machine learning, and distributed computing. My current research is on metrics for attack trees.
In the past I have also done research on comparative Indo-European linguistics, especially Albanian, and arithmetic algebraic geometry. My PhD thesis was on moduli spaces of abelian varieties.
Organisations
Research
Publications
- Stefano M. Nicoletti, MLZ, E. Moritz Hahn & Mariëlle Stoelinga, 2023. PFL: A Probabilistic Logic for Fault Trees. FM 2023.
- MLZ, Boris Škorić & Ninghui Li, 2022. Fisher Information as a Utility Metric for Frequency Estimation under Local Differential Privacy. WPES 2022.
- MLZ, Carlos E. Budde & Mariëlle Stoelinga, 2022. Efficient and Generic Algorithms for Quantitative Attack Tree Analysis (preprint). In: Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
- Qiongxiu Li, MLZ, Richard Heusdens & Mads Græsbøll Christensen, 2022. Two for the price of one: communication efficient and privacy-preserving distributed average consensus using quantization. EUSIPCO 2022.
- Jasper Goseling & MLZ, 2022. Robust Optimization for Local Differential Privacy. ISIT 2022.
- MLZ, Mina Sheikhalishahi, Jeroen Kivits, Jordi Klarenbeek, Gert-Jan van der Velde & Niccola Zannone, 2021. Comparing Classifiers' Preformance under Differential Privacy. SECRYPT 2021.
- MLZ & Jasper Goseling, 2021. Robust Local Differential Privacy. ISIT 2021.
- MLZ, Haochen Tong & Boris Škorić, 2020. Data Sanitisation for the Privacy Funnel with Local Differential Privacy Guarantees (preprint). International Journal on Advances in Security 13(3&4), page 162-174.
- MLZ, Zitao Li, Boris Škorić & Ninghui Li, 2020. Improving Frequency Estimation under Local Differential Privacy (preprint). WPES 2020.
- Zitao Li, Tianhao Wang, MLZ, Boris Škorić & Ninghui Li, 2020. Estimating Numerical Distributions under Local Differential Privacy (preprint). ACM SIGMOD 2020.
- Tianhao Wang, MLZ, Zitao Li, Boris Škorić & Ninghui Li, 2020. Locally Differentially Private Frequency Estimation with Consitency (preprint). NDSS 2020.
- MLZ, 2020. History of the Albanian present suffix -i/-ën from Proto-Indo-European to the modern dialects. In: Indogermanische Forschungen 125(1), page 51-78.
- MLZ, 2020. The Privacy funnel from the viewpoint of Local Differential Privacy (preprint). ICDS 2020.
- MLZ, 2019. The Anatolian "ergative" (preprint). In: Alwin Kloekhorst & Tijmen Pronk (eds.), The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European: The Indo-Anatolian and Indo-Uralic Hypotheses, volume 21 of Leiden Studies in Indo-European, page 131-150. Brill, Leiden.
- MLZ, 2018. The zeta Functions of Moduli Stacks of G-zips and Moduli Stacks of Truncated Barsotti-Tate Groups. In: Documenta Mathematica 23, page 1799-1828.
- MLZ, 2015. Albanian presents in -oj, -uaj and -(y)ej. In: Bardhyl Demiraj (ed.), Sprache und Kultur der Albaner. Zeitliche und räumliche Dimensionen. Akten der 5. Deutsch-Albanischen kulturwissenschaftlichen Tagung (6.-9. Juni 2014, Buçimas/Albanien), volume 37 of Albanische Forschungen, page 175-195. Harrasowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden.
Preprints
- MLZ & Mariëlle Stoelinga, 2021. Attack time analysis in dynamic attack trees via integer linear programming.
- MLZ & Jasper Goseling, 2021. The Privacy-Utility Tradeoff of Local Differential Privacy.
- MLZ, Boris Škorić & Ninghui Li, 2019. Information-theoretic metrics for Local Differential Privacy protocols.
- MLZ, 2017. Integral models of reductive groups and integral Mumford-Tate groups
Theses
PhD Thesis (2018): Moduli of abelian varieties via linear algebraic groups
MA Thesis (2014): Form, function and history of the present suffix -i/-ën in Albanian and its dialects
MSc Thesis (2014): Pink's conjecture on semiabelian varieties
BA Thesis (2012): Nasaalpresentia in het Albanees
BSc Thesis (2011): Field topologies on algebraic extensions of finite fields
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Education
Teaching
I currently teach the following courses:
- Software testing & risk assessment (STAR) (MSc Computer Science)
- Grondslagen (Inf4All)
This list may be more up to date than the automatically generated one below
Supervision
I have supervised the following students:
Master
- Haochen Tong (2021, with Boris Škorić)
Bachelor
- Kalin Doychev (2023)
- Rosan Maas (2023)
- Aly Afia (2022, with Carlos Budde)
- Huynh Quang Long (2022)
Courses Academic Year 2022/2023
In the press
- http://www.radioswammerdam.nl/category/2020-2021/ (16 maart) A radio interview, together with Arjen Versloot, on historical linguistics (in Dutch), on Radio Swammerdam
- http://www.nieuwarchief.nl/serie5/pdf/naw5-2018-19-4-295.pdf An article about the Linguistic Olympiad (in Dutch) in Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde
Contact Details
Visiting Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Zilverling
(building no. 11), room 3110
Hallenweg 19
7522NH Enschede
The Netherlands
University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Zilverling
(building no. 11), room 3078
Hallenweg 19
7522NH Enschede
The Netherlands
Mailing Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Zilverling
3078
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands