Luis Paulus

PhD Student
Exploratory Data Analysis
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
CISPA D2, Room 0.03
Im Oberem Werk 1
66386 St. Ingbert, Germany
luis.paulus@cispa.de

Luis Paulus is a PhD student working on neuro-symbolic knowledge discovery and machine learning.

Luis obtained both his Master's and Bachelor's in Computer Science from Saarland University. He wrote his Master's thesis on how to efficiently discover high-quality rule sets from massive binary datasets using continuous optimization, and his Bachelor's thesis on reinforcement curriculum learning. He was a tutor for Programming 1 and the Math Preparatory Course, part of the CS Bachelor Honor's Program, did an Erasmus semester in Bergen, Norway, and likes rowing.

Publications

2026

Paulus, LNJ, Fischer, J & Vreeken, J Differentiably Discovering Good Sets of Rules. In: Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), ACM, 2026. (18.5% acceptance rate)

2024

Paulus, L Neural Rule Mining. M.Sc. Thesis, Saarland University, 2024.