NEWS AND EVENTS

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 […]