Dr. Veselin Raychev

About me

Originally, I am from Sofia, Bulgaria. My research interests include Program Analysis, Algorithms and Machine Learning. I obtained my M.Sc. and B.Sc. from Sofia University, respectively in 2009 and 2006, and my PhD degree from ETH Zurich in 2016. I co-founded DeepCode, which was acquired by Snyk, now a multi-billion dollar company. I was the Director of AI at Snyk before leaving Snyk and joining INSAIT in December 2023.

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Awards

ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention, 2016
ACM SIGPLAN Research Highlights on JSNice paper, October 2016
John Atanasoff Award, awarded by the President of Bulgaria, 2016
IBM Ph.D. Fellowship 2015-2016
2nd Heidelberg Laureate Forum, 2014
OOPSLA Outstanding artifact award for our paper: Effective Race Detection for Event-Driven Programs.
SIGPLAN travel grant for OOPSLA 2013.
Google OC award for the work on Google Translate.
19th place in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest – World Finals, San Antonio, TX, 2006.
29th place in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest – World Finals, Shanghai China, 2005.
Bronze medal in the International Olympiad in Informatics, Yong-in, Korea, 2002.
Silver medal in the Balkan Olympiad in Informatics, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 2002.
1st place in the Bulgarian National Olympiad in Informatics, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2002.