Explainable Artificial Intelligence Analysis

Prof D. Onchis is developing trustworthy AI research and Leading Timisoara Research in Artificial Intelligence Network

UVT Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics

Recent Publications

Journal papers and conference proceedings plus Arxiv preprints

ESM-VAE: Bias Reduction in EEG Models via Synthetic Data Generation with Variational Autoencoders

Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, 197-211, 2025

E Covaci, F Costi, DM Onchis
Deep Learning Explainable AI Medicine

ExDDV: A New Dataset for Explainable Deepfake Detection in Video

arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.14421, 2025

V Hondru, E Hogea, D Onchis, RT Ionescu
Deep Learning Explainable AI Computer Vision

Refining Filter Global Feature Weighting for Fully-Unsupervised Clustering

arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.11706, 2025

F Galis, D Onchis
Deep Learning Explainable AI Unsupervised Learning

XplainLungSHAP: Enhancing Lung Cancer Surgery Decision Making with Feature Selection and Explainable AI Insights

Surgeries 6 (1), 8, 2025

F Costi, E Covaci, D Onchis
Deep Learning Explainable AI Medicine

ViTmiX: Vision Transformer Explainability Augmented by Mixed Visualization Methods

arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.14231, 2024

E Hogea, DM Onchis, A Coporan, AM Florea, C Istin
Deep Learning Explainable AI Computer Vision

LogicLSTM: Logically-driven long short-term memory model for fault diagnosis in gearboxes

Journal of Manufacturing Systems 77, 892-902, 2024

E Hogea, DM Onchiş, R Yan, Z Zhou
Deep Learning Explainable AI Damage Detection

On Applying GraphLime for Trustworthy Diabet Prediction

2024 26th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computation, 2024

F Costi, D Onchis, C Istin, AM Florea, E Hogea
Deep Learning Explainable AI Medicine

Optimal Knowledge Distillation through Non-Heuristic Control of Dark Knowledge†

Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction 6 (3), 2024

D Onchis, C Istin, I Samuila
Deep Learning Explainable AI Model compression

Research News & Updates

Latest developments from my lab and the AI research community

Featured Research

Darian Scientific Research

High Impact Research Paper

Our paper "LogicLSTM: Logically-driven Long Short-term Memory Model for Fault Diagnosis in Gearboxes" has been accepted for publication in the Elsevier's top-tier Journal of Manufacturing Systems, with Impact Factor 12.3. Congratulations to all my co-authors, Eduard Hogea, Ruqiang Yan and Zheng Zhou ! Our article introduces LogicLSTM, a novel hybrid neuro-symbolic model obtained by logically guiding a pretrained Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network with the support of a customized Logic Tensor Network (LTN). The model is further optimized by Explainable AI techniques, for a refined fault classification of time-series data coming from industrial gearboxes.

ANIS Prize

Professor Onchis from the West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics received the ANIS prize for the Course "Algorithms for analyzing biological sequences and signals"

New PhD Students Join the Lab

Introducing three of my brilliant PhD students, Emanuel Covaci, Fabian Galis and Eduard Hogea (in alphabetical order, from right to left). I wish them a great journey through the world of Artificial Intelligence !

Industry Collaboration Announcement

We're excited to announce a new research partnership with EVIDEN to develop AI solutions for cyber-security.

Teaching

Courses and seminars delivered at the West University of Timisoara and University of Pau (France)

Advanced Machine Learning

Master's level course on modern ML techniques, including deep learning and XAI.

Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning

Undergraduate course introducing intelligent systems and main machine learning models.

Bioinformatics

Foundations in bioinforimatics algorithms, applications, and computational implementation.

Curriculum Vitae

Academic background, appointments, and professional highlights

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.

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