Darian M. Onchis is full professor at the West University of Timisoara, Romania since 2023.
He holds a PhD title since 2006, awarded by the West University of Timisoara, Romania and University of Seville, Spain. In 2014, he successfully defended his habilitation thesis at the Aix-Marseille University in France and he became PhD advisor and independent researcher.
Prof. Onchis is the founder of TRAIN (Timisoara Research in Artificial Intelligence Network). He is the creator of XAION, an independent platform dedicated to explainable artificial intelligence competitions.
Darian is member of the ELLIS Society (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems) since 2020, EURASIP since 2012, and CATAM (University of Seville, Spain) since 2010. At UVT, he is also the coordinator of the SIMT (Signal, Image and Machine Learning Team) research group, and he organizes the Explainable-AI Reading group.
During the period 2015-2018, Darian Onchis coordinated a PhD student (Simone Zappala) that successfully defended his thesis at the University of Vienna. Currently, he is a PhD advisor at the West University of Timisoara, where he coordinates 5 PhD students.