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München, DE
Head of Venture Department / AI E-Lab
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 ☕
Projekt
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 are raising their multi-million pre-seed rounds, make hundreds of thousands in annual recurring revenue and employ dozens of people - After our incubator they get continuous support from Y Combinator, EWOR, Entrepreneur First, CDTM, TUM Venture Labs, UnternehmerTUM and many more VC partners TUM.ai is Europe's leading AI student initiative. We organize Hackathons, Working Student Positions, Research Projects, Lectures, Workshops, Conferences and a Startup Incubator around AI. My responsibilities: - Head of Venture Department (since March 24) - Co-Lead of Impact Projects for SS24 Batch (20-week non-profit open-source research projects with MIT, IBM Research, MI4People, Unite and Allianz) - Functional Task Force Lead Public Relations (Booths, Pitching, ecosystem and international Conferences since May 24) - Task Force Lead Marketing & Analytics @ Venture Department (May 23 - March 24) - 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 2024 - Moderator of Panel Discussions, Fireside Chats, Workshops and Interviews at TBC AIxWEB3, AI Summit, Makeathons/Hackathons, and the AI E-LAB
