Laurenz Sommerlad

About Me

I love building things and connecting with people. I learned programming at 12, founded a student-led startup at 15, and graduated from a technical high school with a perfect GPA of 1.0, majoring in CS and Math.

📚 I study Computer Science & Econ (Information Systems) at - The Technical University of Munich and ranked in the top 2% at the TUM Department of Computer Science, having been admitted into the four-semester-long talent program “best.in.tum: Gems of Computer Science.”
🚀 As the Head of the Venture Department at TUM.ai, I organize the AI Entrepreneurship 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 Innovation Ecosystem
🔭 At the Klein LAB of the Comprehensive Childhood Research Center at LMU Hospital, I am conducting research to predict rare child diseases using federated learning-based Graph Machine Learning techniques on patient phenotypes, genes, and proteins
🤖 With WARR Space Robotics, I am developing perception and path planning software for an Autonomous Mars Rover for the European Rover Challenge 2024 while also leading fundraising efforts for the hardware
🌱 I have over two 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. Additionally, I have a deep passion for traveling, exploring foreign cultures, and learning languages, including French, Spanish, Japanese & Arabic, all of which greatly 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 Stats

GitHub/ GitLab Projects and Repositories

TUM.ai Makeathon 2024 AI in Medicine Challenge
- 🥈 Won 2nd place by applying graph machine learning to a remote dataset with FeatureCloud to detect and classify rare child diseases
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
MyPotato student-led startup
- Gitlab Repository of MyPotato website. Fresh and local food delivery by student-led startup in Niederwalgern, Germany
TUM.ai E-Lab Website
- Github Repository of TUM.ai Homepage
More coming soon…