NEWS AND EVENTS

21 top students from all around the globe are now in Sofia for this year’s INSAIT Summer Research Fellowship Program 2024! Amongst them are international olympiad medalists, startup founders, gen AI hackathon winners and others. The research topics they work on at INSAIT span large language models, 3D understanding, safety of generative AI, security of […]

INSAIT has a new paper accepted, now at a premier robotics research conference (IROS). The event takes place October 14-18th in Abu Dhabi. The paper, named “Ternary-type Opacity and Hybrid Odometry for RGB-only NeRF-SLAM” explores improving RGB-only NeRF-SLAM by using ternary-type opacity instead of binary opacity for 3D scenes with opaque surfaces, providing better optimization […]

Researchers at INSAIT have 17 papers accepted for publication at ECCV’24 (European Conference on Computer Vision), a top research conference in AI and computer vision. In a short time, INSAIT has now established a strong presence in all top computer vision conferences: CVPR, ECCV, and ICCV. The papers span areas such as Text-to-Image Diffusion Models, […]

Eight graduates from the Bulgaria’s leading mathematics schools have been selected to be part of the first EXPLORER (EXcellence Program in technoLOgy and REseaRch) program, which provides them with a 2000 BGN monthly stipend for a period of 4 years. The initiative is of the Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT) and […]

The new multi-million investment in INSAIT from Google includes cloud computing resources for training generative models and 1M USD worth of PhD fellowships This week Google expanded their support for INSAIT, the Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology in Sofia, Bulgaria. This new investment of over $2 million reaffirms Google’s commitment to INSAIT’s […]

INSAIT (Institute of Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology) is happy to announce a new collaboration with Toyota. The collaboration with Toyota will focus on the general area of AI and robotics, where on the INSAIT side the leading principal investigator will be Prof. Luc Van Gool. Prof. Van Gool, now faculty at INSAIT, is […]

INSAIT is happy to announce that it has accepted 23 talented students for its second Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship (SURF). These students were selected from applicants spanning 56 countries. The summer interns will start our research internship program this June and will be mentored by INSAIT faculty, including Prof. Luc Van Gool, Prof. Martin Vechev, […]

RWC’25 will take place between March 25 – 27, 2025 in Sofia, Bulgaria. INSAIT will host the Real World Crypto (RWC) Symposium in 2025. After Toronto, Tokyo, Amsterdam, New York and Palo Alto, Sofia will welcome more than 1,000 representatives from industry and academia to discuss some of the most relevant topics in the field […]

Researchers at INSAIT have 16 papers accepted at the CVPR conference. CVPR is the most cited AI and computer vision conference in the world, according to h5-index. With this, Bulgaria ranks in the top 10 countries in CVPR acceptance with INSAIT having more CVPR papers than the rest of Eastern Europe combined.  CVPR also ranks […]

Top tech companies, asset managers and VCs are providing four-year fellowships of BGN 72,000 for INSAIT’s new AI excellence program enabling the country’s most talented high-schoolers in mathematics and computer science to stay in Bulgaria and achieve world-class education in science and technology. Sofia, 19.02.2024 The Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology – […]

Sofia, 15.01.2024 – BgGPT to launch free use on March 3 for the entire Bulgarian society. Institutions, both scientific and educational, and others can now register to get early access! Today INSAIT officially launched BgGPT, the first open large language model for Bulgarian, created for the Bulgarian state, users, public and private organizations. The event […]

Amazon Web Services has donated 1M USD to the Institute for Computer Science, AI and Technology (INSAIT), established in Sofia in April 2022. INSAIT is the first world-class research institute in Eastern Europe, structured similarly to top research institutions worldwide. In a short span, INSAIT has managed to attract outstanding international faculty in computer vision […]