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 Summer 2018, Ludwig was an intern at Microsoft in the Office of the Chief Economist. 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. During his M.Sc. he visited the NCKU in Tainan, Taiwan (R.O.C.), for one year as an exchange student under the supervision of Prof. Ruey-Lin Sheu.

Mechanism Design; Market Design; Preference Elicitation, Cloud Computing

1. Bayesian Admission Policies for Cloud Computing Clusters. Ludwig Dierks, Ian Kash and Sven Seuken. NetEcon'19. June 2019. [pdf]
2. Cloud Pricing: The Spot Market Strikes Back
   Ludwig Dierks and Sven Seuken. EC'19, June, 2019. Full working version (July 2019): [pdf]