NEWS AND EVENTS

INSAIT announces a landmark achievement: for the first time in history, a Bulgarian institution has a paper accepted at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), a top research conference in robotics. The paper, titled “Generalist Robot Manipulation Beyond Action Labeled Data”, will be presented at CoRL 2025, taking place September 27–30 in Seoul, South Korea. […]

The first version of the model was downloaded more than 10,000 times in few months, while this new version adds many new important capabilities The Institute for Computer Science, AI, and Technology (INSAIT), part of Sofia University, Bulgaria, announces the release of MamayLM v1.0 – the first free, open and efficient Ukrainian Large Language Model […]

Prof. Thomas Zurbuchen, former NASA Science Director and now professor at ETH Zurich, is coming to Bulgaria at the invitation of INSAIT. INSAIT, part of Sofia University, is organizing the first international forum on Geospatial AI and Applications with Foundation Models – GAIA 2025, which will take place on September 24–25, 2025 in Sofia. Prof. […]

Prof. Bernhard Haeupler, faculty member at INSAIT and ETH Zurich, delivered a keynote talk at the European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), one of the world’s premier conferences on algorithms. ESA 2025 is taking place this week in Warsaw, Poland, as part of ALGO 2025, the largest annual event in Europe dedicated to algorithms research (https://algo-conference.org/2025/esa/). […]

The Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (INSAIT) is the only Bulgarian organization featured in the strategic document “From promise to progress: First year in office”. The document is part of the 2025 State of the Union address by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, presented […]

On September 10, 2025, at the Granite Hall of the Council of Ministers, the new scholarship recipients of the four-year EXPLORER (EXcellence Program in technoLOgy and REseaRch) Program of the Institute for Computer Science, AI and Technology (INSAIT) at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and its Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics were officially presented. Six […]

INSAIT, part of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” has received a new $150,000 gift from Google to advance research in multimodal generative AI. With this latest support, Google’s total contributions to INSAIT now exceed $6 million, underscoring its continued recognition of INSAIT as a world-class AI organization. The funding will support doctoral researchers in multimodal […]

INSAIT is co-organizing the Physics-IQ Challenge at ICCV 2025, part of this year’s Perception Test Challenge, which will take place on October 19, 2025, in Hawaii, USA. The Physics-IQ Challenge introduces a new benchmark aimed at evaluating whether generative models can produce physically plausible videos in complex real-world scenarios. INSAIT researchers Prof. Luc Van Gool […]

INSAIT will co-organize the OpenSUN3D Workshop at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2025, in collaboration with researchers from Stanford University, ETH Zürich, Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and the Technical University of Munich. The workshop will focus on advancing open-vocabulary and open-world understanding of 3D scenes, a critical direction for the future of artificial intelligence […]

The Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT) at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” is a co-organizer of a specialized workshop at NeurIPS 2025 – one of the world’s most prestigious conferences in the field of artificial intelligence. The event will take place from December 8 to 14, 2025, in San Diego, USA. […]

INSAIT researchers in collaboration with international partners, have introduced GaussianVLM—the first Vision-Language Model capable of understanding fully immersive 3D scenes reconstructed from ordinary smartphone videos, without the need for specialized hardware. GaussianVLM leverages Gaussian splats, a compact and photorealistic 3D representation, enabling the model to interpret complex spatial environments and answer open-ended, natural-language questions about […]

The Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT) is proud to announce its participation at the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025), taking place in Vancouver, Canada. This year, INSAIT researchers have had two papers accepted to the main conference and three papers accepted to associated ICML workshops, marking a significant […]