he/himPascal Schumann
PhD Student
DFKI – Neuro-Mechanistic Modeling
CaMoRe – Causal Models and Representations
Saarland Informatics Campus
Campus D3.1 (DFKI)
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
About Me
I am a PhD student specializing in sequential decision-making and reinforcement learning (RL), with a primary focus on explainability. My research aims to overcome the “black box” nature of deep learning agents, developing methods to make RL models more interpretable and trustworthy. I also explore how (interpretable) RL can be applied in practice, such as using offline RL for domains like healthcare.
In my spare time, I am a passionate chess player and enjoy rock climbing.
Interests
- Sequential Decision-Making
- Reinforcement Learning
- Explainability
- Causal Inference
Education
PhD in Computer Science, ongoing
Co-supervised by Dr. Jonas Wahl and Prof. Verena Wolf at Saarland University
M.Sc. Mathematics and Computer Science, 2026
Saarland University
Learning Continuous Dosage Strategies for Sepsis via Offline Reinforcement Learning
B.Sc. Mathematics and Computer Science, 2022
Saarland University
Systoles of Translation Surfaces
Teaching (2)
Statistics Lab
Assistant, in Summer 2026
Lecture at Saarland UniversitySpatiotemporal Models and Inference
Assistant, in Summer 2025
Saarland University
Supervised Students (1)
Johannes Isle
Learning Causal Graphs via Discrete, Order Based Search: The FLOP Algorithm
Bachelor's Thesis, 2026