Professor Simeon Evstatiev, Head of the Department of Arabic and Semitic Studies at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, and Associate Professor Galina Evstatieva, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology, took part in the Third International Conference on Arabic Studies in Europe (Sharjah, 8–9 November 2025).

INSAIT, part of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” announced StateSpaceDiffuser, a new diffusion-based world model that achieves substantial improvements in spatial and temporal consistency, has been accepted for presentation at NeurIPS 2025 - one of the world’s leading conferences in artificial intelligence, taking place this December in San Diego, USA.

The Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT) hosted a key official visit by Prof. Maria Leptin, President of the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC is Europe’s premier organization for funding frontier, high-risk, high-reward research, with more than €16 billion allocated for the 2021–2027 period to support breakthrough scientific advances across disciplines.

Today in Sofia, INSAIT – the Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” – and the Bulgarian National Audit Office launched Odis, an intelligent AI assistant designed to support public procurement auditors. The pilot project was unveiled during the “Artificial Intelligence and IT Audit in Safeguarding of the Public Resources” conference, organized by the National Audit Office.