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A Historic Achievement for Bulgaria: INSAIT Wins the Country’s First ERC Grant in Engineering and Natural Sciences

This remarkable achievement propels Bulgaria into the ‘Champions League of Science.’ Sofia, June 2026Bulgaria’s first-ever ERC grant in Natural Sciences and Engineeringhas been awarded to Dr. Bernhard Haeupler, a researcher…

INSAIT researchers recognized as CVPR 2026 Outstanding Reviewers

First Bulgarian university student to co-author a CVPR paper

Borislav Petrov рepresents INSAIT at IMF–World Bank мeeting in Varna

Prestigious recognition for INSAIT at ICML 2026

INSAIT hosts Bulgaria's Junior Balkan Mathematical Olympiad team

INSAIT and Bulgarian government discuss strategic partnership in AI and innovation

INSAIT's Maria Drencheva discusses AI safety and security at Digitalk 2026

INSAIT showcases 17 accepted papers at CVPR 2026

INSAIT unveils next-generation Ukrainian AI chat and open LLMs

SPEAR-1 is coming to CVPR 2026!

Announcing FireScope AI: The First Public Wildfire Risk Map for Europe

INSAIT Among Europe’s Top Institutions at CVPR 2026

What is behind BgGPT 3.0 and what does it signal for the future of local and soverign AI?

Happy Day of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius, of the Bulgarian alphabet, education and culture and of the Slavonic literature!

INSAIT researchers were among the speakers at Google Cloud Day

The Ombudsman of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Executive Director of INSAIT discussed the possible regulations and the growing integration of AI into all areas of public areas

Recognition in AI: five INSAIT researchers have been awarded the ICML Gold Reviewer Award 2026!

INSAIT takes the stage at Google Cloud Day!

With over 2,800 applicants for summer internship at INSAIT, only 15 top students get the opportunity to study and work in Sofia

Deputy Prime Minister Pulev and Minister Vassilev at INSAIT: The institute is a strategic project for Bulgaria

INSAIT is representing Bulgaria at a leading forum in algorithms and theory – ICALP 2026

INSAIT Introduces EgoNight: A Benchmark for Egocentric AI Vision in Low-Light Conditions

INSAIT and Netflix Develop AI Model That Realistically Removes Objects from Video

INSAIT Receives Record Interest for Its SURF Summer Research Program

INSAIT unveils a new generation of AI: precision models for business and an upgraded BgGPT chat for all citizens

INSAIT Represents Bulgaria at EACL 2026 with Three Cutting-Edge NLP Papers

The Bulgarian National Revenue Agency Adopts AI by INSAIT

INSAIT with 8 Accepted Papers at ICLR 2026, Ranking #1 in Eastern Europe

INSAIT paper in Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering highlights AI–energy challenge

February 24, 2026

INSAIT positions Bulgaria amongst the world leaders in algorithms at the leading research conference

February 18, 2026

INSAIT Launches CVPR 2026 Workshop on Agentic AI for Visual Media

February 11, 2026

INSAIT and Leading Global Institutions Organize a Workshop at CVPR 2026

February 4, 2026

INSAIT Opens Applications for SURF 2026 Summer Research Internship Program

February 2, 2026

Google awards $500,000 to INSAIT!

January 12, 2026

INSAIT Introduces DiffSim Trinity: A New Paradigm for Autonomous Driving Based on Differentiable Simulation

December 22, 2025

Bulgaria’s INSAIT ranks 13th in Europe, overtaking universities in Oxford, London, Amsterdam and Berlin

December 16, 2025

INSAIT Releases the World’s Largest Open-Source 3D Dataset and Benchmark for Language-Aware AI Systems

December 3, 2025

With Over 1,000,000 BGN in Donations, INSAIT Launches EXPLORER 2026 – a unique AI and Deep Tech bachelor program

November 21, 2025

INSAIT Researchers Advance Video AI with StateSpaceDiffuser

November 14, 2025

ERC President Prof. Maria Leptin on a Key Visit to INSAIT to Discuss Frontier Science and Innovation

November 10, 2025

INSAIT and the National Audit Office Launch an AI-Powered Public Procurement Audit Platform

November 4, 2025

INSAIT With Three Accepted Papers at IROS 2025, One of the World’s Leading Robotics Conferences

October 28, 2025

Google Deepens Support for INSAIT with New $1M Contribution

October 23, 2025

INSAIT unveils SPEAR-1 – Europe’s first open robotic foundation model trained on 3D data

October 22, 2025

INSAIT Showcases Bulgaria’s AI Excellence at ICCV 2025

October 21, 2025

New Benchmark “Physics-IQ” Challenges AI Video Models’ Understanding of the Physical World

MISSION

“INSAIT’s mission is to transform the world through excellence in science, research, and education. At INSAIT, we believe an immersive and inspiring environment, which encourages human creativity, curiosity-driven exploration, and freedom of thought, is paramount to shaping the true thought leaders of tomorrow who invent stunning technologies that change the world and capture the human imagination.”

Prof. Martin Vechev
Founder and Scientific Director of INSAIT

People

World-leading professors and researchers form the supervisory and advisory boards of INSAIT.

Prof. Virginia Vassilevska Williams Theory and Algorithms, Sloan Fellow

Prof. Greg Morrisett Programming Languages, ACM Fellow, Dean and Vice Provost of Cornell Tech

Prof. James Larus Computer Systems, ACM Fellow

Prof. Tom Henzinger Verification and Theory, ACM Fellow, President of IST Austria

Prof. Eran Yahav Programming Languages and Machine Learning, Allon Fellow

Prof. Martin Vechev Programming Languages and Artificial Intelligence, ACM SIGPLAN Robin Milner Award

Prof. Srdjan Capkun Computer Security, ACM Fellow

Prof. Andreas Krause Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, ETH AI Center Director

Dr. Slav Petrov Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, Senior Research Director

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