--- title: "Christan Grant · University of Florida — author profile and papers" description: "Christan Grant, University of Florida: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 12 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christan-grant/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christan-grant/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Christan Grant # Christan Grant Christan Grant has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Chibuzor Okocha](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chibuzor-okocha/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5070860161) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6684-3620) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5070860161) · [84 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5070860161) · [349 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5070860161&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christan-grant/#papers) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #13484](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/135/#star-13484) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Christan+Grant) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Christan+Grant) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Christan+Grant) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Christan+Grant) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Florida** Gainesville · United States 2010–2026 · 43 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-florida/) · [🎓**University of Oklahoma** Norman · United States 2016–2022 · 24 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-oklahoma/) · [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) · [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Signal Processing · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Speech & spoken language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christan-grant/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christan-grant/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Afrispeech Semantics: Evaluating Audio–Semantic Reasoning in Spoken Language Models Across Domains and Accents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/okocha-2026-afrispeech-semantics-evaluating-audio-semantic/)** *(2026)* Audio language models (ALMs) are usually benchmarked on transcription, captioning, retrieval or QA. These tests reveal little about whether a model draws conclusions strictly from what it hears. The authors build a multi-task benchmark on African-accented English speech. It probes five audio-grounded reasoning… 2. **[Domain-Aware Speaker Diarization On African-Accented English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/okocha-2025-domain-aware-speaker-diarization-african/)** *(2025)* The paper asks whether speaker diarization ("who spoke when") performs worse on African-accented English in a clinical setting than in everyday talk, and why. ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chibuzor Okocha](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chibuzor-okocha/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) Updated 1 November 2026