Jawad Al Rahwanji

Doctoral researcher @ CISPA | RTG Nx Models

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I am a machine learning researcher at the Helmholtz Center CISPA, a member of the Neuroexplicit Models Research Training Group, and an informatics D.Phil. candidate at Saarland University, advised by Jilles Vreeken. My research focuses on interpretable machine learning and data mining methods, with a primary application in biomedicine.

I obtained my M.Sc. in Data Science and AI from Saarland University. I wrote my Master's thesis on differentiable subgroup discovery in time-to-event (survival) data with the Exploratory Data Analysis group. Before that, I earned my B.Eng. in Information Technology from Damascus University, where for my graduation project I developed a computer-vision-powered system that detects safety and security events.

Sep, 2026 Gave a talk at DSG26 at FU Berlin.
Jul, 2026 Attending ECML PKDD 2026.
Jun, 2026 Participated in the Interpretable, Trustworthy & Accountable AI Symposium at MPI-INF.
May, 2026 Our poster was accepted at the ICML 2026 Workshop on Structured Data for Health (SD4H).
Mar, 2026 Participated in the RTG Nx Models Spring Workshop at Saarland University.
Feb, 2026 Our preprint titled Discovering Subgroups with Exceptional Survival Characteristics is online.
Feb, 2026 Presenting a poster at the ELSA Workshop on TrustworthyAI4Health at EMBL Heidelberg.
Jan, 2026 Visited our Liberate AI partners at DZNE Bonn.
Nov, 2025 Participated in the RTG Nx Models Symposium at Schloss Dagstuhl.
Sep, 2025 Started my doctor of philosophy degree in informatics at Saarland University.
Sep, 2025 Started my role as a doctoral researcher at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security.
Aug, 2025 Attending ECML PKDD 2025.
Jun, 2025 Was accepted into the Research Training Group on Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action.

Selected publications

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    Discovering Subgroups with Exceptional ...
    Mhd Jawad Al Rahwanji...
    arXiv · Feb 2026
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    A comprehensive study on ...
    Amal Yousfan...
    Molecular Pharmaceutics · Dec 2023