Laurenz Sommerlad
Laurenz Sommerlad
Robotics, AI & Entrepreneurship | TUM Student | Sports
About Me
I love building things and connecting with people. I learned programming at 12, founded a student-led startup at 15, and joined a technical high school majoring in CS & Math.
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📚 I'm in my second year of Computer Science & Econ (Information Systems) at
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🚀 I'm the Head of Venture Department at TUM.ai organizing the AI E-Lab, a 14-week equity-free AI startup incubator. Our alumni are raising millions in pre-seed funding and have been accepted into Y Combinator, EWOR, CDTM and other prestigious programs from our partners and the Munich Entrepreneurship Ecosystem -
🔭 I'm conducting research at LMU Hospital to predict rare child diseases using federated learning-based Graph ML techniques on patient phenotypes, genes, and proteins -
🤖 I'm developing perception and path planning software for an Autonomous Mars Rover for the European Rover Challenge 2024 with WARR Space Robotics, while also leading fundraising efforts for the hardware -
🌱 I have over 2+ years of work experience as a Software Engineer in Full-Stack web-based applications (working student)
Outside of my professional endeavors, I enjoy doing a lot of different sports like weight training, martial arts (Wing Chun), marathons, technical and cave diving, wakeboarding, snowboarding, and preparing for my first Ironman. I am also in love with traveling, exploring foreign cultures and learning languages including French, Spanish, Japanese & Arabic which continues to enrich my life.
Driven by a desire to make the world a better place, I am committed to solving the most challenging problems with technology. Feel free to reach out — I am always up for a coffee and a good conversation!
GitHub and GitLab Stats
GitHub/ GitLab Projects and Repositories
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TUM.ai Makeathon 2024 AI in Medicine Challenge
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🥈 Won 2nd place by applying graph machine learning to a remote dataset with FeatureCloud to detect and classify rare child diseases
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TUM.ai Makeathon 2023 Applied AI Challenge
- Web-based chatbot that combines the strengths of ChatGPT, Cohere Summarizer, and a detailed questionnaire to ideate on AI use cases and business models
- Devpost Submission
- Gatsby Frontend with Tailwind CSS
- FastAPI Backend
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MyPotato student-led startup
- Repository of https://my-potato.de website. Fresh and local food delivery by student-led startup in Niederwalgern, Germany
- More coming soon...
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