🎹she/herEmily Ries
Junior Researcher
Deutsches Forschungszentrum
für Künstliche Intelligenz
Saarland University
Universität des Saarlandes
Campus D3 2, Room +2.10
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
About Me
I am a junior researcher in the department of Neuro-Mechanistic Modeling (NMM) at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Since June 2026, I have been part of the Neuro-Explicit Sequential Decision-Making (NEXD) research group. While my Bachelor’s and Master’s studies primarily focused on supervised learning, my current work centers on (deep) reinforcement learning.
Projects
- preAIrranging – Preparing an AI-Based Rearranging Hub (abat+, DFKI, Saarland University): we use neuro-symbolic approaches to solve the combinatorial optimization problems faced in modern production processes in industrial manufacturing.
Interests
Besides research, I enjoy sports, reading, and playing music.
- Reinforcement Learning
- Supervised Learning
- Combinatorial Optimization
- Ethical AI
Education
M.Sc. (Computer Science), 2026
Supervised by Prof. Dr. Sven Apel at Saarland University
Predicting Contributions in Open-Source Software Projects
B.Sc. (Cybersecurity), 2023
Supervised by Prof. Dr. Rebekka Burkholz at Saarland University
The Effect of Pruning on Tabular Data