NEWS AND EVENTS

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy, Investment, and Industry Mr. Alexander Pulev, Minister of Innovation and Digital Transformation Mr. Ivan Vassilev, and Deputy Minister of Economy, Investment, and Industry Ms. Mira Yosifova visited the INSAIT, an institute part of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and spoke with INSAIT’s founder and Scientific Director, Prof. Martin […]

The Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Technology (INSAIT) at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” will represent Bulgaria at the 53rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2026). The conference, organized by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), is scheduled to take place from July 7th to 10th, 2026, in […]

INSAIT, part of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” introduces EgoNight – the first large-scale study and benchmark dedicated to understanding how modern AI systems perceive and interpret visual information at night. The work has been accepted at ICLR 2026, one of the leading global conferences in artificial intelligence. As technologies such as smart glasses, autonomous […]

INSAIT at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, together with one of the world’s largest streaming platforms, Netflix, have developed a new AI model VOID – capable of removing objects from video while realistically reconstructing how the scene changes afterward. Unlike standard tools that simply “fill in” the removed areas, VOID understands how objects interact. For […]

INSAIT, part of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” has successfully closed applications for this year’s edition of its SURF summer research program, once again attracting remarkable global interest. More than 2,800 students from 128 nationalities across 6 continents applied to the program. The applicant pool includes outstanding students from some of the world’s leading universities, […]

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 […]