NEWS AND EVENTS

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 […]

We were pleased to welcome a Danish delegation of senior leaders and professionals from the business, technology, and public sectors (VL Group) to INSAIT. The delegation brought together nearly 20 senior leaders and professionals, including representatives of IKEA/Ingka Group, Imerco, Copenhagen Data, the City of Copenhagen, and Asia House. During the visit, INSAIT Executive Director […]

She could have stayed abroad and pursued a career in the tech industry. Instead, she chose to return to Bulgaria and pursue a Ph.D. at INSAIT. In the latest episode of The Next Generation Speaks, our Ph.D. student Anna-Maria Halacheva, and a Google DeepMind fellowship recipient, talks about her journey into AI research and what […]

We are delighted to announce that Yasen Kiprov is joining INSAIT! Before joining INSAIT, Yasen was Director of AI Development at SiteGround, one of Bulgaria’s most successful technology companies. He brings extensive experience in leading and developing projects in automation, machine translation, generative AI, and data analytics. Yasen is also an active member of Bulgaria’s […]

ECCV 2026 has wrapped up in Malmö and we’re leaving with a lot to celebrate. With 10 papers accepted to the ECCV main track, INSAIT ranked 5th among EU research institutions by number of accepted papers. With 10,473 submissions and 2,883 accepted (27.5%), this is a strong recognition of the quality and breadth of research […]

Bulgarian student Maria Drencheva was selected from a pool of 2,500 young talents for a prestigious Swiss research program. The Student Summer Research Fellowship (SSRF) is organized annually by ETH Zurich, with just 20 places available to students from around the world. Over the course of two months, Maria Drencheva worked on a key question […]

Bulgaria ranked among Europe’s leading countries in terms of research presence at ECCV 2026, one of the world’s most prestigious conferences in computer vision and artificial intelligence. With 10 papers in the main conference programme, INSAIT at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski,” ranked 5th among EU research institutions by number of accepted papers. By this […]

ECCV 2026, one of the world’s leading computer vision and AI research forums, is officially underway in Malmö! After 2 days of workshops, the main conference and exhibition have kicked off, bringing thousands of researchers, students, and industry leaders from around the world together to explore the latest advances in computer vision and AI. INSAIT […]

A major milestone for INSAIT on the global computer vision and AI stage: 10 papers have been accepted to ECCV 2026, one of the world’s leading conferences in computer vision and AI, taking place this week in Sweden! ECCV is a biennial flagship event for the computer vision and AI community, bringing together leading researchers […]

INSAIT is bringing GAIA to ECCV 2026 – the 2nd Workshop on Geospatial AI and Foundation Models, bringing together researchers across vision, geospatial AI, space tech, Earth observation, and climate science. The amount and diversity of geospatial data are growing at an unprecedented pace. At the same time, foundation models and generative AI are opening […]

 We are excited to welcome Vanja Kovinić to INSAIT as a new Ph.D. student! Vanja will pursue his Ph.D. in computer vision under the supervision of Dr. Danda Pani Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool. His research interests include 3D Computer Vision, Self-Supervised Learning, and World Models. Before joining INSAIT, Vanja worked as an AI […]