Laurenz Sommerlad

Head of Venture at TUM.ai | ML Researcher at LMU Hospital | Robotics & ML Engineer at WARR | TUM B.Sc. | German National Scholarship | Polyglot Passionate about AI, Robotics, and Entrepreneurship with a proven track record in software engineering and leadership. I love building things and connecting with people. In fact, I built my first software projects at 12, founded a student-led startup at 15, and joined a technical high school majoring in CS & Math after returning from my US exchange semester in California. - Ranked in the Top 2% at TUM and achieved an Abitur score of 1.0 - Conducting research at LMU Hospital to predict rare child diseases using federated learning-based Graph ML techniques on patient phenotypes, genes, and proteins - Leading a cross-functional team of 20+ students in the Venture Department to organize 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 numerous partners - 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 - Over 2+ years of work experience as a Software Engineer in Full-Stack web-based applications (working student) My hobbies include weight training, martial arts (wing chun), marathons, technical diving/ cave diving, wakeboarding, snowboarding, and preparing for my first Ironman. I am also passionate about traveling, cultures and learning languages including French, Spanish, Japanese & Arabic. Determined to make the world a better place by solving the most challenging problems with technology. Feel free to reach out! I am always down for a coffee ☕