Since October 2015 Ludwig is a Ph.D. student advised by Prof. Sven Seuken in the Computation and Economics Research Group at the Department of Informatics of the University of Zurich. In 2015, he received a M.Sc. in Mathematics in Operations Research from TU Munich. He wrote his Master's thesis on "Cooperative Games with Payoff Restrictions" under the supervision of Prof. Felix Brandt. From October 2012 to September 2013 he further visited the NCKU in Tainan, Taiwan (R.O.C.), as an exchange student under the supervision of Prof. Ruey-Lin Sheu.

Mechanism Design; Market Design; Preference Elicitation, Cloud Computing

1. The Power of Machine Learning and Market Design for Cloud Computing Admission Control. Ludwig Dierks, Ian Kash and Sven Seuken. Working Paper. April 2018. [pdf]
2. Cloud Pricing: The Spot Market Strikes Back
   Ludwig Dierks and Sven Seuken. Working Paper, February 2018.[pdf]