Summary
Will Styler is an Associate Teaching Professor and computational phonetician with 13 years of experience bridging phonetics, speech perception, and computational methods to advance open science and public-facing research. Based at UC San Diego, he directs the Computational Social Science program while teaching and developing large-scale speech production and perception experiments that combine eye tracking, airflow capture, and acoustic modeling. He has a PhD in Linguistics (Phonetics) from the University of Colorado Boulder and a track record supervising complex annotation projects for NIH-scale clinical NLP work. Deeply committed to open source and open access, he shapes tools and practices for reproducible speech research and public benefit. Colleagues describe him as a thoughtful interdisciplinary collaborator who blends rigorous experimental methods with pragmatic computational solutions.
12 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Linguistics (Phonetics), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Linguistics (Phonetics) at University of Colorado Boulder
Cherry Creek High School
English, Spanish, Russian, praat, python, r (statistical computing), latex, French