The scholarship aims to establish a long-term relationship between INSAIT and PMI and allows the winning student to focus entirely on their education without having to work during this period.
Prof. Martin Vechev from INSAIT provided a scholarship of 27,000 leva for the Master’s program “Logic and Algorithms” of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Sofia University
Eng. Borislav Petrov (Executive Director of INSAIT),
Trayan Gospodinov (scholar), Prof. Martin Vechev, Prof. Aleksadra Soskova (FMI)
The scholarship is a personal donation from Prof. Martin Vechev in the amount of 1,500 leva per month for a period of 18 months for a student from the master’s program ‘Logic and Algorithms’ at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (FMI) of Sofia University “St. Klimen Ohridski”. The scholarship recipient is Trayan Gospodinov, a first-year student in the master’s program, selected by a committee including Prof. Martin Vechev, Prof. Stoyan Mihov, Prof. Tinko Tinchev, Assoc. Prof. Stefan Gerdzhikov and Prof. Alexandra Soskova.
One of the serious problems of Bulgarian higher education in the field of informatics is that students usually work during their studies. This has an adverse effect in specialties that require in-depth concentration and solid accumulation of basic knowledge. This vicious model prevents the Bulgarian IT industry from getting out of the rut of outsourcing and moving towards building top specialists who are able to create high-tech products with high added value. World-class research, as well as the creation of high-tech companies based on this research, which is the ambition of INSAIT, are only possible with the presence of students with fundamental and in-depth knowledge.
The scholarship donated by Prof. Martin Vechev aims to be an example of a systematic change towards quality higher technical education:
“The Master’s program Logic and Algorithms at the Faculty of Information Technology, led by Prof. Alexandra Soskova, provides fundamentally important material that is the basis of a number of research and applications in the world of informatics and artificial intelligence. Building top specialists who possess this type of in-depth knowledge and skills is of fundamental importance – not only for institutes like INSAIT, but also as a basis for the creation of deep technology companies and research. I believe that without such specialists, a country cannot be competitive in the global high-tech market. The fact is that these types of programs are not among the most glamorous, but they are certainly among the most important and should be supported.”