Christan Grant, Ph.D.
University of Florida 🐊
Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering
⭐️ UF Data Studio⭐️
OU Data Lab
👉 Bio 👈
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
Teaching
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Weapons of Math Destruction
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Text Analytics
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Operating Systems
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Text Analytics
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Operating Systems
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Text Analytics | Syllabus
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Databases (@
University of Florida)
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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 website.
Check out my latest CV for more info on me (Curriculum vitae)
Publications
- Let The Jury Decide: Fair Demonstration Selection for In-Context Learning through Incremental Greedy Evaluation. Sadaf MD Halim, Chen Zhao, Xintao Wu, Latifur Khan, Christan Grant, Fariha Ishrat Rahman, Feng Chen. The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Vienna, Austria. 2025.
- Fairness-Aware Active Online Learning with Changing Environments. Sadaf MD Halim, Chen Zhao, Xintao Wu, Latifur Khan, Christan Earl Grant, Feng Chen. In the Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE). Hong Kong SAR, China. 2025.
- RAMQA: A Unified Framework for Retrieval-Augmented Multi-Modal Question Answering. Yang Bai, Christan Earl Grant, Daisy Zhe Wang. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). Albuquerque, New Mexico. 2025.
- Algorithmic Fairness Generalization under Covariate and Dependence Shifts Simultaneously. Chen Zhao, Kai Jiang, Xintao Wu, Haoliang Wang, Latifur Khan, Christan Earl Grant, Feng Chen. In the Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). Barcelona, Spain. 2024.
- Analyzing Finetuned Vision Models for Mixtec Codex Interpretation. Alexander R. Webber, Zachary Sayers, Amy Wu, Elizabeth Thorner, Justin Witter, Gabriel Ayoubi, Christan Grant. The 4th Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP). Mexico City, Mexico. 2024.
- M3: A Multi-Task Mixed-Objective Learning Framework for Open-Domain Multi-Hop Dense Sentence Retrieval. Yang Bai, Anthony Colas, Christan Grant, Daisy Zhe Wang. The Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING). Torino, Italy. 2024.
- Guided Undergraduate Training for Shark Segmentation (GUTSS). Amy Wu, Morgan Cobb, Victor Perez, Christan Grant, Jeremy Waisome. A Poster in the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGSCE). Portland, Oregon. 2024.
News
3/25 :: We have a paper accepted to ACL 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 University 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.
Some Recent Service
1/26 :: Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)
1/26 :: Review Board, Proceedings from the Very Large Data Bases (VLDB)
3/25 :: Reviewer, National Science Foundation (NSF)
3/25 :: Reviewer, ACL Rolling Review March (ACL ARR)
1/25 :: Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
2/25 :: Reviewer, ACL Rolling Review February (ACL ARR)
1/25 :: Reviewer, Second Conference on Language Modeling (COLM)
1/25 :: Senior Program Committee, Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD)
1/25 :: Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)