# Dr. Christan Grant

> Dr. Christan Grant is the Arnold and Lisa Goldberg Rising Star Associate Professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida, where he directs the UF Data Studio. His group builds AI theory and systems for data that current models cannot process, spanning fairness-aware learning under distribution shift, NLP for encoded visual writing systems and low-resource or atypical speech, and interactive systems where humans and AI reason together.

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## About

Dr. Grant directs the UF Data Studio under a single idea, *Making the Invisible Computable*. The lab names where AI systems fail when reality violates their training assumptions, then builds the system that handles the data anyway.

Dr. Grant was an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma before joining UF. He earned his doctorate in the University of Florida database research lab, where he held an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and an NSF LSAMP Bridge to Doctorate fellowship. His research draws support from the NSF, Colgate-Palmolive, Amazon, the FAA, the USDA, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, among others.

## Research

- Fairness-aware learning that stays equitable when data distributions shift over time.
- NLP for encoded visual writing systems, including the first computational pipeline for reading pre-colonial Mixtec codices.
- Machine translation for low-resource and Indigenous languages.
- Audio language models and recognition of atypical speech, such as child stuttering.
- Interactive systems and visual analytics where people and AI reason together.

Work from the group appears at KDD, ICDE, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, LREC-COLING, NeurIPS workshops, AmericasNLP, and the Computational Humanities Research conference.

## Selected honors

- Best Paper Award, 2025 IEEE ASRU Workshop on AI for Children's Speech and Language, for work on audio language models and child stuttering speech.
- First place overall, 2026 AmericasNLP Shared Task on Cultural Image Captioning for Indigenous Languages.
- Distinguished Program Committee Member, ICDE 2026.
- Area Chair, KDD 2026.
- Review Board, VLDB 2026.
- NSF Graduate Research Fellow and NSF LSAMP Bridge to Doctorate Fellow.

## Links

- [Homepage](https://ceg.me/): news, selected publications, and contact.
- [Biography](https://ceg.me/bio/): short and long bios, headshots, and CV.
- [Curriculum vitae](https://ceg.me/bio/CV.pdf): full CV in PDF.
- [Producer notes](https://ceg.me/producer-notes.md): intros and talking points for hosts and event organizers.
- [UF Data Studio](https://ufdatastudio.com): the research lab Dr. Grant directs.
- [Publications](https://ufdatastudio.com/publications): papers and preprints from the lab.
- [UF faculty profile](https://cise.ufl.edu/people/faculty/name/christan-grant/): official department page.
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qIQ3IwYAAAAJ): citation record.
- [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6684-3620): persistent researcher identifier.
- [Web of Science](https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/J-2461-2018): ResearcherID and author record.
- [DBLP](https://dblp.org/pid/195/5990.html): computer science bibliography and publication record.
- [GitHub](https://github.com/cegme): code and open-source projects.
- [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/ceg.me): social updates.

## Contact

Email: cgrant@cise.ufl.edu