Christan Grant, Ph.D.

University of Florida 🐊
Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering
⭐️ UF Data Studio⭐️
OU Data Lab⭐️
👉 Bio 👈

Contact Information

Malachowsky Hall 6115
1889 Museum Road
Gainesville, FL 32611
Tel: +1-352-392-0054
Fax: +1-352-392-1220
ORCiD: 0000-0002-6684-3620

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Teaching

Spring '25	Data Engineering
Spring '25	Intro to Data Science
Fall '24	Data Engineering
Spring '24	Data Engineering
Fall '22	Intro to Operating Systems
Fall '22	Distributed Operating Systems
Summ '22	Data Bite
Spring '22	Text Analytics
Fall '21	Intro to Operating Systems
Fall '21	Distributed Operating Systems
Summ '21	Data Bite
Spring '21	Text Analytics
Spring '21	Intro to Operating Systems
Fall '20	Distributed Operating Systems
Spring '20	Text Analytics
Spring '20	Intro to Operating Systems
Fall '19	Operating Systems Theory
Spring '19	Text Analytics
Spring '19	Intro to Operating Systems
Fall '18	Intro to Operating Systems
SpringB '18	Weapons of Math Destruction
Spring '18	Text Analytics
Fall '17	Operating Systems
Spring '17	Text Analytics
Fall '16	Operating Systems
Spring '16	Text Analytics \| Syllabus
Spring '14	Databases (@ University of Florida)

Dr. Christan Grant is the Arnold and Lisa Goldberg Rising Star Associate Professor at the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering. Dr. Grant leads the UF Data Studio. In this role, he investigates various aspects of the data pipeline, including data acquisition, labeling, interactive machine learning, and visualization.

For more details, visit the UF Data Studio and the OU Data Lab website.

Check out my latest CV for more info on me (Curriculum vitae)

3/25 :: We had a paper accepted to NAACL 2025 and ICDE 2025! 🎉 (See our publications page for more info).

12/24 :: I am thankful to Colgate-Palmolive on a new grant on time series machine learning.

11/24 :: I am coaching 7 undergraduate along with a team from Vispero Freedom Scientific to develop a new remote desktop tool for the blind. Check out a blog post of their updates.

7/24 :: Thanks Google AI for awarding the UF Data Studio a PaliGemma Academic Program GCP Credit Award!

6/24 :: I am at NAACL in Mexico City 🇲🇽 presenting our poster!

5/24 :: The UF Data Studio Paper Analyzing Finetuned Vision Models for Mixtec Codex Interpretation is accepted to the 4th Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas AmericasNLP. ☝️.

2/24 :: Congrats to Tony Bai on his paper M3: A Multi-Task Mixed-Objective Learning Framework for Open-Domain Multi-Hop Dense Sentence Retrieval being accepted to LREC-COLING 2024. 🙌 .

8/23 :: 👋 Come find me at KDD 2023 in Long Beach, CA.

8/23 :: I am 🫡 recruiting a PhD Student to join the Data Studio.Check out the advertisement.

5/23 :: Congratulations to Dr. DeHart and Dr. Xu on completing their doctorates!

1/23 :: I joined the Univeristy of Florida CISE department as an associate professor.

5/22 :: I was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in the School of Computer Science.

3/22 :: I will be serving on the CIKM 2022 Program committee.

2/22 :: Our paper on analyzing the aspirations of cities that want to be "smart" was published in IARIA Journals.

1/22 :: I will be serving on OU's Presidential Professorship Selection Committee.

12/21 :: The Distributed Operating System created Fantastic Final Projects -- they made a game called Asynchronous Chess.

12/21 :: Jasmine DeHart created a creative presentation of her paper at BigData 2021.

Visit the studio webpage for a list of current papers →

1/23 :: Workshop Chair :: IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).

12/22 :: I will be serving on the ACM FAccT 2023 Program committee.

8/22 :: I will serve as Senior Area Chair for EACL 2023.

8/22 :: I will serve as Academic chair for the Tapia Conference Program committee.

1/22 :: Program Committee :: Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT).

9/21 :: Program Committee :: IEEE 2021 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA).

9/21 :: Reviewer :: Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

9/21 :: Program Committee :: IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData).

7/21 :: Scholarship Chair :: Tapia Conference.