Gabriel Borg

Interested in AI, technology and innovation. Research Support Officer at the University of Malta, photographer and scout.

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Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Malta Naxxar, Malta

Research Projects

Since March 2025 I have worked as a Research Support Officer on two projects at the University of Malta, researching current AI methods, writing deliverables and publishing the results.

Project ACCLAIMED

AI Content Cloning for Language-Agnostic Media for Education Democratisation

A content generation tool that lets educators create slides, videos and assessments for educational settings.

  • Generative AI
  • Audio-visual cloning
  • Education

Project WAVE

Water rescue and Artificial Intelligence within a Virtual reality Environment

A VR simulation of Maltese beaches developed in Unreal Engine and paired with Generative and Explainable AI, providing realistic water rescue scenarios that can be used for training.

  • Virtual reality
  • Unreal Engine
  • Large language models

Published Work.

Four peer-reviewed conference papers, 2023 to 2025, newest first.

  1. ICERI 2025 Seville, Spain

    Advancing experiential learning through generative AI-powered virtual reality

    G. Borg, K. Azzopardi, K. Cini, L. Cardona, R. Caruana, V. Camilleri, D. Seychell, M. Montebello

    DOI
  2. ICERI 2025 Seville, Spain

    Blending human expertise with generative AI

    K. Azzopardi, G. Borg, L. Cassar, V. Camilleri, D. Seychell, M. Montebello

    DOI
  3. ECEL 2025 European Conference on e-Learning

    Leveraging generative AI and audio-visual cloning to democratise digital learning

    M. Montebello, K. Azzopardi, G. Borg, K. Cini, D. Seychell, V. Camilleri

    DOI
  4. SITA 2023 Casablanca, Morocco

    Simultaneous localisation and mapping of a mobile robot in a static environment

    G. Borg, M. Montebello · Based on my B.Sc. IT (Hons) dissertation

    DOI Thesis

My Experience.

Mar 2025 to present

Research Support Officer II

Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Malta

Part of the development team behind ACCLAIMED and WAVE: Developing the WAVE virtual reality environment in Unreal Engine, staying abreast of new AI technology, delivering reports on schedule, and preparing the conference papers listed above.

May 2023 to Jan 2025

Data Analyst

RSM Malta

Extracted and cleaned data from databases, APIs and spreadsheets; applied statistical techniques to find trends; built charts and dashboards; and wrote reports with recommendations for stakeholders, using Excel, SQL and Python.

2020 to 2022

Student Internships

University of Malta, Malta Digital Innovation Authority, RSM Malta

Three summer placements across video editing and game design (2020), data analysis (2021), and web scraping with database entry (2022).

Two Degrees, One Subject.

Artificial Intelligence at the University of Malta, from the bachelor’s through to the master’s.

2023 – 2025

MSc Artificial Intelligence

Distinction · Summa Cum Laude

Thesis: Employing Sentiment Analysis to Classify Text. Machine learning, neural networks and NLP for text classification.

2020 – 2023

BSc IT (Hons), Artificial Intelligence

First Class Honours

Thesis: Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping of a Mobile Robot in a Static Environment.

Languages & Tools

  • Python
  • Java
  • C / C++ / C#
  • R
  • SQL
  • HTML / CSS / JavaScript / PHP
  • Unity
  • Unreal Engine
  • Excel

Spoken

  • Maltese native
  • English C2
  • Italian A1

Away from the Desk, Outdoors.

Alongside research and photography, I am a member of the Rover Crew at the Naxxar Scout Group.

  • Naxxar Scout Group
  • Rover Crew

Professional Photography.

GB Photography is my photography business in the Maltese Islands, covering events, portraits, travel, landscape, product and sports. It started as a hobby and became a way of telling stories.

Visit gborgphotography.com

Let’s Talk.

Open to research collaborations and roles in applied AI, immersive learning and data.

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