CV

Education

Ph.D in Computer Science, University of Florida, 2028 (expected)
B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics, University of Florida, 2023
A.A. in General Studies, Florida Gateway College, 2019

Summer 2024 - Present: Research Assistant @ UF Data Studio
- University of Florida CISE Dept.
- Duties include: Bechmarking VLM Models, Prompt Engineering, Multimodal Machine Translation, Dataset Curation, Writing Academic Papers, Visual Parsing, Parsing with ANTLR, DSL Design
- Supervisor: Dr. Christan Earl Grant
Summer 2023 - Summer 2024: Research Assistant @ ELX Lab
- University of Florida CISE Dept.
- Duties included: Web Design, Data Visualization Design, UX Design, Conducting User Studies, Linux Web Sever Management, Interfacing with IRB, Flask Server Management.
- Supervisor: Dr. Sharon Lynn Chu
Spring 2021 - Summer 2024: Teaching Assistant
- University of Florida
- Duties included: Designing Exam Questions, Debugging Student Code, Teaching Discussion Groups, Advising Students in Software Engineering Projects, Investigating Plagiarism, Grading Exams,
- Supervisors: Dr. Cheryl Resch, Dr. Pete Dobbins, Dr. Beverly Sanders, Dr. Jason Harrington

G. Salunke, C. Driggers-Ellis, and C. Grant, “Classifying name-date and year figures in Mixtec codices,” in Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, 2025.
C. Driggers-Ellis, G. Ayoubi, and C. Grant, “OPTiCAL: An Abstract Positional Reasoning Benchmark for Vision Language Models”, in 2025 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, 2025. (to appear)
A. Dhawan, C. Driggers-Ellis, C. Grant, D. Z. Wang, “Improving Indigenous Language Machine Translation with Synthetic Data and Language-Specific Preprocessing”, in Proceedings of the LoResMT Workshop 2026. (to appear)

Machine Learning
- LLMs
- VLMs
- Reasoning Benchmarks
Computer Vision
- Image Segmentation
- Obect Detection
- Parsing Pictographic Manuscipts
- Computer Vision Metrics
Programming Language Design
- ANTLR4
- Context Free Grammar Design