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Sebastian Sartor
Sebastian Sartor
sartor@cdtm.com
Center Assistant 2024-2025 Sebastian was part of the CDTM Management Team from June 2024 to May 2025 and has been in charge of the Trend Seminar and the Entrepreneurship Taskforce. Previously, he studied Management & Technology at TUM, spend a semester abroad at UC Berkeley and supported innovation and entrepreneurship education at UnternehmerTUM. During his Masters, he also published two peer-reviewed papers and two preprints. He completed his Bachelor studies in Mechnical Engineering and Business Administration at the University of Bayreuth, where he also co-founded and led a team building an autonomous system for an electric race car competing at Formula Student competitions. If you catch him outside of work, he's an adventurous traveler, a casual volleyball player, runner, cyclist and skier.
Research

Information systems and AI / robotics; CDTM doctoral student (TUM), since September 2025 PhD student at MIT (advised by Neil Thompson) on neural scaling laws.

  1. Building Industrial Data Platforms: A Case Study on Introducing Data Mesh2024, conference, ECIS, with Philipp Kernstock, Konstantin Biermann, Anna Wimbauer et al.
  2. Neural Scaling Laws in Robotics2024, preprint, arXiv, with Neil Thompson
  3. The Future of Software Engineering and IT Operations2025, trend report, SSRN, with Vera Eger, Agustin Coppari Hollmann, Aliosha Milsztein et al.
In the research overview