Internship Programme at GATE Institutе

Research internships in Big Data, AI and Digital Technologies.
Join a leading research institute and work on real interdisciplinary projects.

Duration
12 weeks
Start
July
Format
Hybrid
Type
Paid internship

Why intern at GATE

Work on real research projects

Interdisciplinary teams

Mentorship by experienced researchers

National and international collaborations

Flexible working hours

Flexible working hours

Access to practical trainings

Access to high-tech infrastructure

3-month paid internship

Pathways to continued work at GATE

Internship tracks & Research areas

What we look for

How to apply

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Assen Popov
Intern, AdvancedAI Research Group, 2024–2025
Internship work

Worked on integrating large language models with physical task execution in robotics. His focus was on embodied AI and Vision–Language–Action models, including dataset processing, experimental design, and model evaluation. This work contributed to a paper accepted at ACM SAC 2026 and to the release of the GATE-VLAP dataset.

Worked on integrating large language models with physical task execution in robotics. His focus was on embodied AI and Vision–Language–Action models, including dataset processing, experimental design, and model evaluation. This work contributed to a paper accepted at ACM SAC 2026 and to the release of the GATE-VLAP dataset.

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Tsvetelina Stefanova
Intern, Disinformation Detection (2022–2023)
Internship work

Processed and annotated textual datasets for training machine learning models detecting disinformation and automated text. Contributed to a social media analysis tool and annotated datasets. Co-author of a scientific paper presented at the 10th Language & Technologies Conference (Poznań, 2023).

Processed and annotated textual datasets for training machine learning models detecting disinformation and automated text. Contributed to a social media analysis tool and annotated datasets. Co-author of a scientific paper presented at the 10th Language & Technologies Conference (Poznań, 2023).

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Veneta Kireva
Intern, Disinformation Research (2022–2023)
Internship work

Worked on social media disinformation analysis, including large-scale data preprocessing and development of analytical tools. Contributed to Bulgarian-language datasets and a scientific publication

Worked on social media disinformation analysis, including large-scale data preprocessing and development of analytical tools. Contributed to Bulgarian-language datasets and a scientific publication

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Alexander Stoychev
Intern, NATO DIANA Test Centre project (2023)
Internship work

Contributed to analytical and administrative tasks related to establishing a Big Data and AI test centre within NATO DIANA.

Contributed to analytical and administrative tasks related to establishing a Big Data and AI test centre within NATO DIANA.

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Mihaela Zherkova
Intern, BROD Project (2023)
Internship work

Worked on information synthesis, structuring and media coverage analysis related to the project.

Worked on information synthesis, structuring and media coverage analysis related to the project.

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Ina Assenova
Intern, Future Cities (2023)
Internship work

Collected, filtered, visualised and analysed data on urban heat islands. Contributed to a scientific publication.

Collected, filtered, visualised and analysed data on urban heat islands. Contributed to a scientific publication.

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Nevena Grigorova
Intern, Traces 2 project (2023)
Internship work

Collected and annotated data for disinformation and text deepfakes, tested and improved models, developed Python scripts.

Collected and annotated data for disinformation and text deepfakes, tested and improved models, developed Python scripts.

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Stefan Minkov
Intern, Disinformation Research Group
Internship work

Developed a model for propaganda detection under limited-resource conditions and created new datasets.

Developed a model for propaganda detection under limited-resource conditions and created new datasets.

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Alexander Komanov
Intern, Traces project
Internship work

Improved AI models, tested web tools, analysed model errors and collected new data.

Improved AI models, tested web tools, analysed model errors and collected new data.

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Antonio Donkov
Intern, Digital Twin of the City project
Internship work

Optimised walkability index calculations and developed a graphical environment for scenario testing.

Optimised walkability index calculations and developed a graphical environment for scenario testing.

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Vassil Dakov
Intern, Digital Twin of the City project
Internship work

Developed an automated system for detecting tree canopies using computer vision, machine learning and remote sensing.

Developed an automated system for detecting tree canopies using computer vision, machine learning and remote sensing.

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