Tim Hwang is a strategist and analyst with The Barbarian Group.

In a past life, he was a researcher with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where he explored issues around social space design, online collaboration, and commons-based peer production. He also is the managing director of the Web Ecology Project, a New York and Boston based research group examining the systemwide flows of culture and community online.

He is the creator of ROFLCon, a series of conferences celebrating and examining internet culture, viral phenomena, and celebrity. Currently, he serves as the Chair on Higher Awesome Studies at the Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, a philanthropic organization founded to provide grants to projects that forward the interest of awesomeness in the universe. He currently Twitters @timhwang and blogs at BrosephStalin.