Laurenz Sommerlad

Writing a research paper at LMU Hospital on the prediction of rare child diseases using federated learning-based Graph ML techniques on knowledge graphs containing patient phenotypes, genes, and proteins. Klein Lab at the Comprehensive Childhood Research Center, led by Prof. Dr. Dr. Christoph Klein (Director of Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital & Leibniz Prize Recipient) Advisor: Prof. Dr. Bastian Rieck (Professor of Machine Learning at University of Fribourg and PI of the AIDOS Lab at Helmholtz Munich)

Leading a cross-functional team of 20+ students in the Venture Department, organizing a 14-week equity-free AI startup incubator, the AI E-Lab, including workshops, speaker series, networking events, mentors, pitch competitions and international ecosystem trips at TUM.ai e.V. - Alumni have raised multi-million pre-seed rounds from prominent VC funds like Sequoia Capital and joined renowned accelerators such as Y Combinator, EWOR, Entrepreneur First, CDTM, TUM Venture Labs and Xpreneurs by UnternehmerTUM

Building an Autonomous Mars Rover for the European Rover Challenge 2024 - Implementing perception and path planning capabilities using Python, C++, OpenCV, Pytorch, ROS2, Nav2, RViz, Gazebo, Docker and Git - Developing embedded software with Nvidia Jetson AGX Orin, RGBD cameras, Lidar, IMUs, wheel encoders, and more

WARR is Germany's leading space-tech R&D student organization, working on cutting-edge projects in rocketry, zero-gravity brain research on the ISS, satellites and international robotics competitions.

We established TUM.ai as a catalyst for driving the AI innovation landscape in Munich and empowered the emergence of successful AI startups with potential for massive global impact. - Startup Coach & Organizer of the AI Entrepreneurship-LAB (Startup Incubator) - Podcast Host & Producer "Startup Success Stories" - Organizer of the ETH Munich Hackathon AI Track and TUM Business Game Case Study - Moderator of Panel Discussions, Fireside Chats, Workshops and Interviews at TBC AIxWEB3, AI Summit and AI E-LAB

- Implemented a MVP for a healthcare client, surpassing project time estimations by 60% through the use of modern web frameworks - Enhanced the internal time recording system, achieving 100% improved loading times (Spring Boot, Rest, Angular, SQL) - Built Linux Dev Environments and CI/CD Pipelines with Jenkins, Bash Scripts, Docker, MySQL, and Gerrit - Conducted workshops for the Software Factory in Munich on new and efficient Web-Technologies to increase productivity

- Developed software in various international customer projects with a diverse set of programming languages and frameworks - Supported the project managers with requirement engineering and supervision of overseas dev teams - Represented the company at the “Mobile World Congress” in Barcelona and the “Digital Future Congress” in Frankfurt

- Ideation, Planning, Execution and Supervision of a student body of 20+ students - Meetings with external stakeholders and the executive board - Pitching events and competitions

- Analyzed the implementation of the Cloud-ERP-Software - Programmed a small banking system in Java - Attained foundations of Java, OOP, SQL, DBMS, HTML and CS

Top 2% at TUM School of CIT (best.in.tum: Gems of Computer Science, four-semester-long gifted mentoring program) - TUM.ai Student Initiative - WARR Space Robotics - 2x German National Scholarship The Department of Computer Science promotes the best two percent of its students by a special talent program. The promotion confronts the students with open and especially difficult issues in Informatics. We focus on the topics of Machine Learning and Robotics.

Grade Point Average: 1.0 Activities and societies: Stv. Schülersprecher, Philosophie AG, Stadtschülerrat Delegierter, Abi-Komitee, Veranstaltungstechnik und Konstruktion eines Wetterballons zur Erfassung von Witterungsdaten