About
Hi. I do research on compute-efficient and cognitively inspired multimodal models. I've been fortunate to work with Tomer Ullman at Harvard, Boris Katz at MIT, and Daniel Harari at the Weizmann Institute. I dropped my PhD to start something new.
No one got anywhere alone. A special thanks is due to:
- The Fulbright Foundation for funding my PhD ♡
- My family for their unconditional support
- My mentors, and friends, in research and elsewhere
- Sport and cold showers. I'd be nowhere without them.
Research
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2025
Towards aligned body representations in vision models
Gizdov, Procopio, Li, Harari, Ullman
@xai4science@aaai
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2025
Time-Series at the Edge: Tiny Separable CNNs for Wearable Gait Detection and Optimal Sensor Placement
Procopio, Esposito, Raggiunto, Gizdov, Belli, Pierleoni
@ai4ts@aaai
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2025
Seeing more with less: human-like representations in vision models
Gizdov, Ullman, Harari
spotlight@cvpr
- 2024
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2018
Digital cranial suture analysis with application in age estimation
Gizdov, Nikolova, Toneva, Harizanov, Georgiev
@isef
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Aligning vision models with human physical reasoning
Gizdov, Procopio, Caputi, Ivanov, Li, Harari, Ullman
@neuripsin review
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How predictable is AI progress?
Mayo, Alabdulkareem, Shaw, Conwell, Gizdov, Katz, Barbu, Cheung
in progress
Things I did
- Method to predict how AI models will improve in 2027 and beyond Talk at MIT
- Spoke about the state of science in Eastern Europe TV interview at Bloomberg (in Bulgarian)
- Predicted the age of people using their skull Society for Science · ISEF 2019
- Founded BAINSA One of the largest student-ran AI organizations in Europe
- Coded and sold a DDoS website at 14 Fusster · web.archive.org snapshot
- Built an AI that decodes Morse code into language at 15 Wolfram Summer Research Program · 2016
… etc.
Sometimes I write
Books I've been influenced by
- Meditations
- The Myth of Sisyphus
- La Comédie humaine
- East of Eden
- White Nights
- Blindness
- The Metamorphosis
- Letters from a Stoic
- Zorba the Greek
- The Baron in the Trees
- Brave New World
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- I, Robot
- The Naked Sun
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
- The Better Angels of Our Nature
- The Changing World Order
- Life 3.0
- This Is Your Mind on Plants
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- 12 Rules for Life
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
- Atomic Habits
- Never Finished
… and many more.
Adventures
I like adventures and hard things.
Recently, I…
- Did an ultra triathlon (3 miles swimming, 75 miles biking, 13 miles running)
- Climbed a 9,931′ peak while fasting over 48 hours
- Hitchhiked through all of Europe
- Lived in 6 countries in the past 6 years (UK, Israel, China, Bulgaria, Italy, USA). Speak 4 languages
- Did 100 pushups in one go on the Great Wall of China
- Found a job as an AI researcher at 18 by cold-approaching the hiring manager on the street