Our Applied Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (AI Lab) is bridging the gap between technologies and real-world challenges. Based in Plovdiv and operating across Bulgaria, we assist industry and the public sector in transforming data into informed decisions by utilizing state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) methods that are designed to be useful, robust, and responsible.
What we do
- Rapid prototyping and proof of value: we build and test AI concepts using your data to reduce investment risk.
- Model evaluation and hardening: ensuring reliability, fairness, drift, and KPIs that matter in production.
- Industrialisation and machine learning operations (MLOps): we take you from pilot to scalable systems with monitoring, retraining, and documentation.
- Data-centric AI: better labelling, augmentation, active learning, and dataset curation to improve accuracy.
- Privacy-aware / federated learning: collaborating securely without having to move sensitive data.
Technical depth
- Methods: recommender systems, detection/segmentation, time-series forecasting, reinforcement learning, generative AI, explainability (XAI), multi-sensor fusion, other cutting-edge AI and ML methods.
- Data sources: satellite and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery, radar data (including synthetic aperture radar SAR), ground sensor networks, internet of things (IoT) tools/devices — all of them fused with text, tables, audio, video, and time series for richer signals.
- Tooling: python (including PyTorch, TensorFlow and scikit-learn), geospatial pipelines (including Sentinel-1/2 and UAV/DJI), streaming stacks for IoT, and modern MLOps.
Where we help (examples)
- Forestry and environment: biomass/fuel-load mapping, fire-risk indicators, flood intelligence from SAR/optical/UAV, ground gauges and IoT weather nodes.
- Waste and circular economy: foreign-material detection, quality monitoring, edge devices for on-site screening.
- Industry and logistics: Visual question answering (VQA), anomaly detection, demand forecasting and IoT telemetry analytics.
- Public sector and safety: Decision-support dashboards, rapid mapping, privacy-preserving data collaboration across ground networks and radar feeds.
Engagement models
- Discovery workshop → align on problems, data, , key performance indicator (KPIs) and feasibility.
- Pilot project → working prototype evaluated against your metrics.
- Production rollout → integration, monitoring, documentation and training.
- Training and knowledge transfer → targeted courses and playbooks for your team.
Why choose our AI Lab
Industry focus and rigorous research methods: academic depth plus shipped systems.
Geospatial and sensing DNA: we fuse heterogenous data from radar/SAR and UAVs to thermal, ground sensors and IoT devices to inform decision-making.
Responsible by design: we build evaluation, governance, and data stewardship into every project.
Let’s collaborate!
Explore the potential of applied AI with us and stay ahead in an ever-evolving technological landscape. Together, we will transform your satellite, radar, ground networks, and IoT data into a strategic asset that drives sustainable growth and meaningful innovation.
