Franz Görlich - Hackathons
hackathons, competitions
2025

Sanofi Device Innovation Challenge

Team of 5

Developed SanoFit, an innovative on-body drug delivery system featuring an indwelling needle to minimise repeated punctures, a vibration motor for pain relief, and a no-slip band for stability. Integrated redundant safety mechanisms, real-time user feedback, and smart connectivity to deliver drug volumes up to 25 mL.

Final pitch

2024

SwissHacks 2024

Runner-up

Team of 5

Used a fine-tuned audio transformer model and OpenAI's Whisper to detect deepfakes and impersonators in client audio recordings of private bank Julius Bär. Packaged and deployed a user-friendly application using Firebase and Docker.

Datathon 2024

Runner-up

Team of 4

Solar PV forecasting and trading challenge by Axpo. Developed two separate models for the intraday and spot market powered by XGBoost.

START Hack

Team of 4

Developed an educational farming game for Syngenta. Used satelite data and public APIs to simulate influence of farming decisions on soil quality and plant growth

2023

Optiver volatility forecasting competition

Top 10 P&L

Team of 4

Real time $TSLA stock volatility forecasting competition using Optibook. Constrained to linear model including given observables (OIL, MACRO_VOL, FORD_VOL, YIELDS, MUSKPOP..)

Swiss MathWorks AI Hackathon

Runner-up

Individual Participation

Image classification of rock, paper, scissors images, evaluated through model accuracy. Final accuracy: 92%; Fine-tuned resnet18

Datathon 2023

Top 4 Model accuracy

Team of 4

Solved a confidential challenge provided by D ONE.

MATLAB Cody Contest

Runner-up

Individual Participation

Solved second-most MATLAB cody challenges in 1 hour.

2022

Payments, Fraud, and Transparency Hackathon

Winner

Team of 4

Google Developers Student Club (GDSC) Hackathon in collaboration with Picnic. We built a custom model that allows employees to reliably detect fraud in customer payments.

Decentralized Production Concepts Challenge

Winner

Team of 2

Built a solution to produce Evonik's chemical products in a decentralized way.

Hack4Good

Team of 4

Helped Helvetas in a 8-week pro-bono Data Science Hackathon to monitor the impact of trail bridges that connect communities in Nepal. Final report can be accessed here.