“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value“ (Albert Einstein) Borislav Bankov is a Business Development Expert with a focus on the Intelligent Government application domain. Borislav coordinates GATE’s participation in NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA). Until 2021 Borislav worked at the Office of NATO’s Assistant Secretary-General […]

Dream it. Plan it. Do it.  Boris Kraychev is an experienced researcher at the Data Analytics Research group at GATE Institute. His research area is focused on natural language processing: opinion mining, document and news classification as well as on recent technologies for Deep Learning and NLP, such as recurrent neural networks, LSTMs, and GRUs. […]

The director of the Institute ” Big Data for Smart Society ” (GATE), Prof. Silvia Ilieva, received the Award for special contribution to the development of information and communication technologies at the 13th “BAIT Awards 2023″. The award was given to her for the creation of the GATE Institute, which is the first Center of […]

The panel will engage in a comprehensive exploration of the technological disruptions across all established domains of operations as well as the physical, virtual, and cognitive dimensions. The discussion will highlight the importance of identifying and assessing the role of disruptive innovation not just as a threat but also as a catalyst for improved defence […]

Graham Kemp, Professor of Data Science and AI at Chalmers University launched the joint workshop “Novel Political and Media Research: Experimenting with AI methods and Topics of High Societal Interest”. In the first session Irina Temnikova and Silvia Gargova presented Project TRACES results – detecting human disinformation and textual deep-fakes for a lower resourced language […]

As global data spaces enthusiasts the Director of GATE Institute, Prof. Sylvia Ilieva, Prof. Dessislava Petrova-Antonova, Irena Pavlova and Iva Krasteva, PhD  joined the discussion about the future of data spaces. The Data Spaces Symposium and Deep-Dive Day provided a unique platform to explore, assess, and map out the future of data spaces through: Exclusive networking and engagement opportunities; Thought-provoking […]

The forum was held in a hybrid format. Its purpose was to present the existing evidence on the health consequences of air pollution in Bulgaria and the region, as well as their relationship with current policies and actions. Prof. Desislava Petrova-Antonova, head of a research group at GATE, presented a report on “Data spaces and […]

Borislav Bankov presented the work and experience of the GATE Institute within DIANA, NATO’s network for stimulating defence innovation. In April this year, the Institute was approved as a NATO test centre in the field of big data, artificial intelligence and autonomous systems. Based on the experience of GATE, a vision for a Bulgarian accelerator […]

Earlier this month, GATE was recognized as a test centre in the field of big data and artificial intelligence by the DIANA network, together with the Institute of Defense “Prof. Tsvetan Lazarov”, whose director Colonel Assoc. Prof. Borislav Genov also took part in the meeting with the president. According to the President, the two test […]

Prof. Ilieva stressed that GATE conducts research throughout the whole life cycle of the data and applies it to its four strategic application areas – “Future Cities”, “Digital Health”, “Intelligent Government” and “Smart Industry”. Asked how the state policy, including in the field of data and open data, has affected the work of the Institute […]