Hello, I’m Skyler!

I am a Sociologist at Meta’s Foundational AI Research (FAIR) and an incoming Assistant Professor at McGill University. I received my PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley in 2023.

Broadly, I investigate whether socio-technical & AI systems designed to improve our day-to-day lives meet their moral and social commitments. My empirical work examines how digital platforms (e.g., network hospitality, online dating, AI companions, etc.) shape modern intimacies and relationships. My applied AI research focuses on alleviating language accessibility issues by developing socially and ethically grounded multimodal translation systems for those who communicate with underserved languages.

My research and ideas have been featured on TIME, CNN, NPR (Morning Edition, All Things Considered), WIRED, Reuters, The Verge, Vox, San Francisco Chronicle, Quartz, GQ, Mashable, HuffPost, and USA Today.

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What’s new?

Mar 2024: Contribute to the OLDI’s (Open Language Data Repository) shared task at WMT24!
Feb 2024
: I’ll be joining McGill University’s Department of Sociology as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2024.
Feb 2024: New paper live on arXiv—“Towards Privacy-Aware Sign Language Translation at Scale.
Dec 2023: PhD in hand! Thank you, Berkeley Sociology.
Nov 2023: We launched a family of models for expressive and near real-time translation.
Oct 2023: SeamlessM4T was named one of the top inventions of 2023 by TIME Magazine.