Jawad Al Rahwanji

PhD Student
Exploratory Data Analysis
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
CISPA D2, Room 0.02
Im Oberem Werk 1
66386 St. Ingbert, Germany
jawad.alrahwanji@cispa.de
personal webpage

Jawad Al Rahwanji is a PhD student in the EDA group. He works on explainable neuro-symbolic methods and is particularly interested in applications in the biomedical domain. He is a member of the Research Training Group on Neuro-Explicit Models.

Jawad obtained his Master's of Science in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence from Saarland University in 2025. He wrote his Master's thesis with us on differentiable subgroup discovery in time-to-event (survival) data. Previously, he obtained his Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology Engineering in 2021 from Damascus University, specializing in artificial intelligence.

Publications

2026

Al Rahwanji, MJ, Xu, S, Walter, NP & Vreeken, J Learning and Naming Subgroups with Exceptional Survival Characteristics. Technical Report 2602.22179, arXiv, 2026.project website

2025

Al Rahwanji, MJ How to Hunt for Horcruxes: Discovering Survival Subgroups. M.Sc. Thesis, Saarland University, 2025.