Gabriel de Jesus

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Contact Information

Email: gabrieldejesusphd[at]gmail.com

Location: Timor-Leste

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/gabrieljesus

GitHub: github.com/gabriel-de-jesus

Education

PhD in Informatics Engineering

Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP), Portugal

September 2025

Thesis: Text Information Retrieval in Tetun

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Master in Computer Science

Faculty of Science, University of Porto (FEUP), Portugal

July 2013

Dissertation: Relatorios e Analise de Tendencias de Rede Social Desportiva Playnify

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Professional Experience

Affiliated Researcher

INESC TEC, Portugal

September 2025-Present

Research in information retrieval and NLP for Tetun.

Founder

Timor News, Timor-Leste

May 2019-Present

Overseeing the development and management of news platforms and digital content.

Human Resource Information System Manager

Chemonics International (HRH2030 Program, USAID-funded project), Timor-Leste

July 2019-February 2021

Development and management of training management information system for health.

Non-Executive Board Member

National Communications Authority (ANC), Timor-Leste

December 2018-August 2021

Governance and regulatory oversight in telecommunications.

Administration and IT Director

Major Project Secretariat, Timor-Leste

January 2014-September 2017

Planning, development, and management of administration, information technology (IT), and operations.

Senior Database Administrator

Timor Telecom, Timor-Leste

September 2009-August 2011

Administered and maintained enterprise applications and databases, optimizing performance, ensuring high availability, and safeguarding data integrity.

Research Interests

  • Information Retrieval (IR)
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • Agentic AI

Selected Publications

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  • Labadain Chat: A Conversational Agent for the Tetun Language (SIGIR 2026)
  • Zero-Shot and Hybrid Strategies for Tetun Ad-Hoc Text Retrieval (ICTIR 2025)
  • Insights into LLM-Based Conversational Search (ICTIR 2025)
  • Exploring Large Language Models for Relevance Judgments in Tetun (LLM4Eval 2024)
  • Data Collection Pipeline for Low-Resource Languages (LREC-COLING 2024)
  • Labadain-30k+: A monolingual Tetun dataset (SIGUL at LREC-COLING 2024)

Selected Talks

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  • AI for Tetun: Building Timor-Leste's Inclusive Digital Future (TLNOG2 2025)
  • Labadain Chat: AI for Tetun Speakers (FTH Round Table 2026)
  • Labadain: The Foundation of Tetun Language Technology (UNTL Seminar 2025)

Teaching & Supervision

Dedicated teaching experience in computer science with a focus on computer programming, databases, and data mining.

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Teaching

3 courses at IPDC and 2 courses at UNTL

Student Supervision

2 research projects at FEUP and INESC TEC