NEWS AND EVENTS

From mission-critical systems to the database infrastructure serving billions of people worldwide, INSAIT was honored to welcome Dr. David F. Bacon, one of the world’s leading computer scientists and software engineers. David is a key engineer behind Google Spanner, the globally distributed database underpinning services such as Gmail, YouTube, and Google Photos, used by billions […]

We are pleased to welcome Félix Dedek to INSAIT as a new PhD student in the research group of Dr. Jinjin Gu, where he will work on AI models for image and text generation. His research interests include diffusion and flow matching models, particularly combining recurrent state models with diffusion-based language models to enable more […]

AI can solve the hardest math problems and make humanoids do backflips. But can it control a robot to clean up a messy table? Robot manipulation remains a major challenge for Physical AI. Even the best AI models struggle with everyday tasks. Moving one item is easy. Moving ten, one by one, is a different […]

INSAIT researchers with 8 papers accepted at the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026), a leading conference in natural language processing (NLP), taking place this upcoming week in Hungary. This year marks the largest EMNLP in the conference’s history, with over 17,000 submissions and an acceptance rate of approximately 15%. […]

INSAIT’s Martin Vechev and Bernhard Haeupler discuss the role of world-class research in Bulgaria’s economic growth in a special NOVA TV report. Why is investing in fundamental research essential to building a world-class technology ecosystem in Bulgaria? Prof. Martin Vechev and Dr. Bernhard Haeupler from INSAIT were featured in a special report by NOVA TV […]

The latest funding extends the  longstanding partnership between INSAIT and Google, focused on advancing AI research. INSAIT and Google already have joint research projects in egocentric computer vision, while INSAIT doctoral students have completed research internships at Google DeepMind, contributing to work on advanced AI models, including models for understanding physical systems. INSAIT has also […]

Following the announcement of her prestigious European scholarship, INSAIT EXPLORER fellow Maria Drencheva spoke to Bulgarian National Television about her journey and the opportunities that have shaped it. Maria highlighted one of INSAIT’s key advantages: the opportunity to work on AI research projects from the very first year of the university studies. Through EXPLORER, students […]

This week, INSAIT welcomed the NATO DIANA (Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic) delegation as part of its programme in Sofia, alongside the Board’s meeting on 19–21 October. The delegation included Mira Yosifova, Bulgaria’s Deputy Minister of Innovation and Digital Transformation INSAIT Executive Director Eng. Borislav Petrov introduced the delegation to the institute’s research […]

Another international recognition for INSAIT EXPLORER scholar Maria Drencheva! Maria, a scholar in INSAIT’s EXPLORER 4-year undergraduate program, has been selected as one of just 20 recipients across Europe of the prestigious Women in Computer Science Scholarship by Bending Spoons! Over 3,000 applicants competed for the scholarships this year. Bending Spoons is a technology powerhouse […]

We are pleased to welcome Cory Myers to INSAIT as our newest Ph.D. researcher, joining Prof. David Basin’s new information security research group! Cory brings a distinctive background in public-interest technology, security, privacy, and applied cryptography. He has been a core developer of SecureDrop, an open-source whistleblowing platform used by newsrooms and civil-society organisations worldwide, […]

OpenAI is partnering with Prof. Martin Vechev, Professor at ETH Zürich and Scientific Director of INSAIT, as part of a limited group of world-class researchers working to better understand and improve its new watermarking technology for detecting AI-generated text, the company announced. The technology embeds an invisible statistical signal into AI-generated text, a technique known […]

Fifteen of Bulgaria’s most outstanding young talents in mathematics, informatics, artificial intelligence, and the natural sciences are choosing to continue their education in Bulgaria with the support of EXPLORER, INSAIT’s four-year scholarship program at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. Among them are medalists from international olympiads in informatics, physics, astronomy and astrophysics, and linguistics, as […]