Riley Wong

Hey there! I’m Riley (they/them).

I’m the Principal of Emergent Research, investigating cooperative infrastructures, community governance, and privacy-preserving data collectives; a Staff Research Scientist at Metagov; and maintainer of a coops, governance, and privacy Discord server—join us!

I also build synths and community through the Synth Library NYC and DIY Synth Collective; previously at Landscape.fm and Stem Modular. Please get in touch if you’re interested in commissioning a custom instrument or synth design.

Previously, I was a machine learning engineer at Google, 20%er on Magenta, QTPOC@Google board member, AI Principles Ethics Fellow, and Google.org Fellow with the Trevor Project; investigative data journalism fellow at ProPublica, investigating racial disparities in cancer clinical trials; and data scientist at Penn Medicine. 

I’m excited about music, speculative fiction, community building, and interdependence. <3