Summary
Albert Ventayol-Boada is a language engineer on assignment at Meta. He earned his Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara with a dissertation on applying computational methods for language description. His language work has been carried out in collaboration with the Mixtec diaspora community in California and the Yukaghir community in the Republic of Sakha (Russia). In his current role, Albert supports low-resource languages in AI-powered machine translation, automatic speech recognition and agentic reasoning.