Pascal Schumann ♞

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)

Supervised Students (1)

  • Johannes Isle

    Learning Causal Graphs via Discrete, Order Based Search: The FLOP Algorithm

    Bachelor's Thesis, 2026