UF Data Studio

Data science research with people in the loop

Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida

The Lab by the Numbers

34

research publications

15

published in 2026

13

research venues

33

researchers mentored

Our Work Appears At

ACL

EMNLP

NAACL

NeurIPS

KDD

ICDM

WWW

Interspeech

ASRU

COLING

LREC

FLAIRS

IVA

★ Best Paper

Can Large Audio Language Models Understand Child Stuttering Speech?

Chibuzor Okocha, Maya Bakri, Christan Grant

IEEE ASRU Workshop on AI for Children's Speech and Language, 2025

RISE: Visual Fairness Diagnosis

Sorted residuals become interpretable fairness patterns

Animated agents moving through an Among Us style map

Agents Among Us

LLM agents collaborate and compete in a simulated world — IVA 2026

Dashboard visualizing fairness metrics during model training

InsightBoard: Fair AI Plugin

Fairness metrics live inside the training loop — FLAIRS 2026

Lab members doing the Gator Chomp at ICDM in Washington, D.C.

Gator Chomp at ICDM 2025

★ Overall Winner

Retrieval-Augmented Long-Context Translation for Cultural Image Captioning

The Gators team, AmericasNLP Shared Task

Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas at ACL, 2026

SyncAssist

Remote desktop for blind users, built with Freedom Scientific

Animated labeling of glyphs in a Mixtec codex scene

Mixtec Codices

Parsing precolonial Mixtec writing into English — ACL ALVR 2026

RISE-NLP

Residual distributions reveal where text classifiers are unfair

Diagram of an audio language model processing accented speech

African-Accented Speech

Audio language models for African-accented and multilingual speech — Interspeech 2026

The Cast

Portrait of Christan Grant — Christan Grant

Associate Professor

Portrait of Ray (Zeyao) Chen — Ray (Zeyao) Chen

CISE Ph.D. Student

Portrait of Detravious Jamari Brinkley — Detravious Jamari Brinkley

CISE Ph.D. Student

Portrait of Christopher William Driggers-Ellis — Christopher William Driggers-Ellis

CISE Ph.D. Student

Portrait of Chibuzor Okocha Joseph — Chibuzor Okocha Joseph

Ph.D. Student

Portrait of Kevin Kurian — Kevin Kurian

CISE Ph.D. Student

Portrait of Godfred Agyapong — Godfred Agyapong

Linguistics Ph.D. Student

EMNLP 2024

Lab members at the ACL 2026 conference in San Diego

ACL 2026, San Diego

RISE-NLP Demo

Interactive fairness auditing for text classification

Poster presentation at the NeurIPS 2025 conference

NeurIPS 2025 Poster Session

Past Researchers

Masters Researchers

Sanya Chaturvedi 2025–2026

Girish Salunke 2024–2026

Aishwarya Tonpe 2024–2025

Rohit Bogulla 2024–2026

Harsh Kanna 2024–2026

Ravi Singh 2025–2026

Nachiketh Tibrewal 2025–2026

Sanket Deshmukh 2023–2024

Adriano Nogueira 2023–2024

Akash Balaji 2024–2025

Aryaan Shaikh 2024–2025

Deeptika Kannan 2024–2025

Priyanshu Mathur 2024–2025

Waseem Ahmed 2024–2025

Hayagreev Varadarajan 2025–2026

Shashank Jagannatham 2025–2026

Sivaramakrishnan Swamyna 2025–2026

Daniyal Abbasi 2025–2026

Undergraduate Researchers

Zachary Sayers 2023–2024

Amy Wu 2023–2024

Elizabeth Thorner 2023–2024

Justin Witter 2023–2024

Morgan Cobb 2023–2024

Gabriel Ayoubi 2024–2025

Aryan Patel 2024–2025

Ryan Esperto 2024–2026

Abigail Hepburn 2026–2026

Justin Sobayo 2026–2026

Johannesse Jackson 2026–2026

Asher C. Wheatle 2026–2025

Maya Bakri 2024–2025

High School Researchers

Amolika Suhir 2025–2026