NEWS AND EVENTS

The technology is of strategic importance for Bulgaria’s sovereignty in artificial intelligence, and BgGPT now supports voice and image recognition and can be downloaded as a mobile app. The third version of BgGPT, Bulgaria’s AI-powered chat, now recognizes images and voice, processes documents, and integrates internet search. This was announced during a public presentation of […]

The Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology INSAIT at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” will represent Bulgaria at the leading natural language processing conference EACL 2026, taking place this week in Rabat, Morocco. INSAIT is the only Bulgarian institution with accepted papers at this year’s conference, where the main track acceptance rate is […]

Employees of the Agency will use the latest technologies in a secure environment The National Revenue Agency (NRA) is adopting INSAIT’s AI system across all its organizational structures. The project is carried out jointly with the Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT) at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and is part of […]

INSAIT at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski has 8 papers accepted at the International Conference on Learning Representations 2026, one of the leading global conferences in artificial intelligence. With this result, Bulgaria once again ranks among the European countries with the highest number of accepted publications and places first in Eastern Europe. This year’s conference […]

А new research paper of INSAIT has been accepted in Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering, part of Nature – one of the world’s most prestigious scientific publishers. The publication explores a critical frontier at the intersection of artificial intelligence and energy systems. As AI continues to scale into gigawatt-level, always-on workloads, today’s power grids are increasingly […]

INSAIT has five research papers accepted to the 2026 edition of the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), widely regarded as the leading global conference in theoretical computer science and ranked #1 in the area by Google Scholar. With five accepted papers, INSAIT, part of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” stands ahead of institutions […]

INSAIT, part of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, is launching the 1st Workshop on Agentic AI for Visual Media (AAVM) at CVPR 2026. The initiative positions Bulgarian-based research at the forefront of developments in Agentic AI for visual media. The workshop is led by INSAIT faculty members Jinjin Gu and Lei Sun, and is organized […]

CVPR is the world’s leading conference in AI and computer vision. INSAIT PhD student Anna-Maria Halacheva and researchers from the institute are among the co-organizers of the 6th Workshop on Open-World 3D Scene Understanding and Representations, which has been accepted to the program of CVPR – one of the most prestigious global conferences in artificial […]

The Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT), has officially opened applications for the 2026 edition of its Summer Research Fellowship (SURF) program, inviting outstanding undergraduate students from around the world to take part in cutting-edge AI and computing research in Sofia, Bulgaria. Now in its fourth edition, SURF has rapidly gained international […]

The global technology giant has been actively supporting the institute since its launch in 2022. INSAIT, an institute at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski,” has won a 500,000 USD award from Google. The funding will support the continuation and further development of the institute’s research in AI, robotics and adjacent areas. This support will help […]

INSAIT, part of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, introduces DiffSim Trinity (diffsimtrinity.insait.ai), a new paradigm for autonomous driving built on differentiable simulation. The work builds on Waymax, the differentiable simulator developed by Waymo, a global leader in autonomous driving that originated from Google. DiffSim Trinity unifies the full sensor → action → outcome pipeline, enabling […]

CSRanking ranks INSAIT ahead of institutions such as Oxford University, University College London, Technical University of Berlin The Institute of Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT) at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” ranks 13th in Europe. This is shown by the data of CSRankings – a global ranking for universities and institutes in the […]