Eliseo Reategui is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, and a permanent faculty member of the Graduate Program in Computers in Education (PGIE-UFRGS). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of London, England, and is a CNPq Fellow in Technological Development and Innovative Extension, Level 2.

Professor Reategui has worked for many years in the development and application of digital technologies in education, with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence in Education. His research has addressed educational data mining, text mining, writing analytics, computational linguistics, and the development of intelligent tools to support reading, writing, feedback, and teacher decision-making. His research team has developed Sobek, a text mining tool used in several educational applications, including second language learning, text summarization, discussion forum analysis, and project-based learning.

His current research investigates the use of generative artificial intelligence, text mining, and computational linguistics to support writing assessment and personalized feedback in educational contexts. This work includes the development of tools to help students improve their writing, support teachers in the evaluation process, identify learning difficulties, promote self-regulation, and design more inclusive pedagogical practices. More recently, his research has also explored the use of edge computing and small language models in education, with attention to privacy, local deployment, technological autonomy, and the responsible use of AI in schools and universities.

Professor Reategui has held international visiting positions at the School of Education of the University of California, Irvine, as a CAPES/Fulbright Visiting Scholar in 2013, and at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, Canada, from 2023 to 2024. He is also a Visiting Professor at Northwest A&F University, China, from 2026 to 2029, collaborating on international research in Artificial Intelligence in Education.

He serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies and of Revista Novas Tecnologias na Educação (RENOTE). He has published extensively in journals and conferences in the field of Computers in Education and Artificial Intelligence in Education.

Before joining UFRGS, Professor Reategui worked at Kalisto Entertainment, in Bordeaux, France, applying artificial intelligence concepts to computer games. In the late 1990s, he also worked as a computer science consultant for Cognition, in Paris, France, contributing to knowledge management projects for large corporations such as Peugeot, Airbus, and Thomson.

Contact information

Phone: 51 3308-3739

email: eliseo.reategui@ufrgs.br