Dr. Raychev received his PhD from ETH Zurich (2016), and his B.Sc. (2006) and M.Sc. (2009) from Sofia University. Earlier he graduated from the Sofia Math High School (SMG) where as part of Bulgaria’s national team, he won a medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). Further, before starting his PhD, he was a tech lead at Google Zurich where he worked on Google directions and Google translate. His PhD thesis was instrumental in starting the area of AI for Code and for this work, he received the ACM Doctoral Dissertation, Honorable mention award (top 3 dissertations in the world across all areas of computer science), a remarkable achievement. Following his PhD, he co-founded and became CTO of DeepCode which was acquired by Snyk, a multi-billion dollar company, in 2020. Currently, at Snyk, he is a director of AI.