About me

I am currently a PhD candidate at Eindhoven University of Technology under the supervision of Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin and Mark de Berg. I am interested in computational social choice topics such as truthfulness and fairness in different participatory budgeting settings.
After finishing my Master’s in computer science at TU Berlin in 2022 I did a three months research internship at Universidad de Chile under supervision of José Correa and worked for six months at the University of Amsterdam under Ulle Endriss.

News

06.07.2024
I won the “Best young scholar paper” award for my Paper Anonymous and Copy-Robust Delegations for Liquid Democracy at the 17th Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare in Paris.

09.04.2024
I presented pabuviz.org at the 1st Conference of the European Network for Digital Democracy in Rotterdam.

Publications

Truthful Budget Aggregation: Beyond Moving-Phantom Mechanisms
Mark de Berg, Rupert Freeman, Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin, Markus Utke.
May 2024.
arXiv

Anonymous and Copy-Robust Delegations for Liquid Democracy
Markus Utke, Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (NeurIPS 2023), December 2023.
PDF · Conference · arXiv · Poster

NDNetGaming - development of a no-reference deep CNN for gaming video quality prediction
Markus Utke, Saman Zadtootaghaj, Steven Schmidt, Sebastian Bosse, Sebastian Möller.
Multimedia Tools and Applications, July 2020.
PDF · Journal

Other projects

Pabuviz
pabuviz.org is an interactive computation and visualization tool for participatory budgeting. It provides intuitive and visually appealing comparison tools based on real-life data. I developed it together with Simon Rey while working at the University of Amsterdam in 2023.