
Patrick Helm, M.Sc.
Contact
Room: 1565
patrick.helm(at)tum.de
Tel: +49 (0)89 289 28202
Office Hours
by appointment
Research interests
Methodologies:
- Stochastic Optimization
- Markov Decision Processes
- Reinforcement Learning
Applications:
- Inventory Management
Teaching
- Stochastic Modeling and Optimization (Winter)
- Inventory Management (Summer)
Academic Career and Positions held to date
- Since 01/2024: Research assistant at the Chair of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (Prof. Dr. Minner) at the Technical University of Munich, funded by the DFG Research Training Group “Advanced Optimization in a Networked Economy”.
Conference Presentations
- 2024: 22nd International Symposium on Inventories (ISIR 2024), Budapest, Hungary
Academic Services
- Since 2025: Reviewer for International Journal of Production Economics
Education
- 2020 – 2023: M.Sc. in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the Technical University of Darmstadt.
- 2020 – 2023: M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering, specializing in Mechanical Engineering, at the Technical University of Darmstadt.
- 2021: Semester abroad at the Technical University of Bucharest, Romania.
- 2017 – 2020: B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering, specializing in Mechanical Engineering, at the Technical University of Darmstadt.
Supervision (ongoing & completed)
Bachelor Theses:
- Partial Observability in Inventory Systems: An Overview
Master Theses:
- A Deep Reinforcement Learning Method for the Stochastic Economic Lot Scheduling Problem
- End-to-End Spare Parts Demand Forecasting in Service Supply Chains
For open topics, please see here.