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

03.04.2025
I presented my work on budget aggregation as an invited speaker at the 3rd Amsterdam / Saint-Etienne Workshop on Social Choice.

18.12.2024
I presented my paper Truthful Budget Aggregation: Beyond Moving-Phantom Mechanisms in the COMSOC Video Seminar (link to video).

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

Mixed Voting Rules for Participatory Budgeting
Anton Baychkov, Markus Brill, Markus Utke.
Preprint, August 2025.
PDF

City Sampling for Citizens’ Assemblies
Paul Gölz, Jan Maly, Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin, Markus Utke, Philipp C. Verpoort.
Preprint, August 2025.
arXiv

Discrete Budget Aggregation: Truthfulness and Proportionality
Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin, Warut Suksompong, Markus Utke.
International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), August 2025.
PDF · arXiv · Poster

Pabuviz.org: A Visualisation Platform to Explore Participatory Budgeting Elections
Markus Utke, Simon Rey, Ulle Endriss.
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), May 2025.
Demo · PDF · Conference

Truthful Budget Aggregation: Beyond Moving-Phantom Mechanisms
Mark de Berg, Rupert Freeman, Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin, Markus Utke.
Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE), December 2024.
PDF · arXiv · Video Presentation

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.