Ongoing / Recent

  • Rosen, Wolfe and Hwang – Co-founded a boutique law practice which specializes in serving the unique needs of weird creative projects and small to mid-size technology businesses.
  • Defense Charts – A Twitter account dedicated to the presentational aesthetics of the defense-industrial complex. Posting daily.

Completed / Archive

  • Berkeley Law School – Secretly went to law school and obtained a J.D. Became a member of the bar in California. 2010 – 2013.
  • COGSEC – Chaired a conference focused on the real-world practice of countering online influence operations. COGSEC featured practical workshops on hunting and neutralizing disinformation campaigns, keynotes describing real investigations going on within the field, and live competitions exposing vulnerabilities that persist in our information landscape.
  • Hype Up Weekend – A weekend long project devoted to launching fake startups and attempting to obtain press coverage. Collaboration with Greg Marra.
  • Most Likely to Succeed – A monthly e-mail newsletter devoted to archiving and re-releasing the music that people made when they were in high school and middle school.
  • National Conspiracy Writing Month (NaCoWriMo) – Inspired by National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), National Conspiracy Writing Month (NaCoWriMo) asks participants to complete a daunting but straightforward challenge: to develop a deep, viable, and complete conspiracy theory during the thirty days of November.
  • Robot, Robot & Hwang LLP – A series of conferences and meetups devoted to experiments at the intersection of legal and computer code.
  • ROFLCon – A series of conferences focused on memes and internet culture. Held at MIT biennially from 2008 – 2012. Co-founded with Christina Xu and Diana Kimball.
  • TableFlip – A daylong conference focused on the art of tabletop game design. Collaboration with Patrick Ewing.
  • Technical Workshops – Organized “Machine Learning: The Debates” at ICML 2018, a day-long series of unscripted discussions that matched up researchers to present their best arguments and points of view on major issues within the field and around the future of the technology. Also organized “Machine Deception” at NIPS 2017, a technical workshop focusing on the capacity for machines to act as a medium through which human and other machine agents may be manipulated to believe, act upon or otherwise accept false information.