Meng Wong
Co-Founder at Legalese
Singapore
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Top SchoolMeng Wong is a serial entrepreneur and technologist with 13 years of formal experience and a decades-long track record dating back to going online at upenn.edu in 1992. As Co-Founder of Legalese he applies deep computer science—functional programming, deontic modal μ-calculus, NLG and Ethereum compilation—to translate 50 years of AI & Law research into practical, open-source legal technology. He previously co-founded pobox.com (one of the first commercial email/antispam services) and Karmasphere (big-data infrastructure, exited to FICO), and led global adoption of SPF/Sender ID standards. Meng helped build Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem via JFDI.Asia and co-founded Hackerspace.SG, blending hands-on engineering with community-driven incubation. He bridges top-tier legal and technical institutions as a CodeX and Berkman fellow and as a Principal Research Fellow in Computational Law, uniquely combining legal scholarship with production-grade systems. A practical futurist, he’s focused on making law computationally auditable and deployable on blockchain—software literally eating law.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
CodeX Fellow, Computational Law, CodeX Fellow, Computational Law at Stanford Law SchoolFellow, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Fellow, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University at Harvard Law SchoolMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at National University of SingaporeCountry Delegate, Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program, Country Delegate, Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program at MIT Sloan School of ManagementBachelor’s Degree, Computer and Information Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer and Information Science at University of PennsylvaniaVisiting Fellow, Computational Linguistics, Visiting Fellow, Computational Linguistics at Università Ca' Foscari VeneziaHigh School, High School at Raffles InstitutionAnglo-Chinese School
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Github Skills (188)
structures10
tuple10
digital-humanities10
lexical-analysis10
prezi10
statistical-learning10
bengali10
grammars10
philosophy10
crossword10
french10
identifier10
normalization10
decision-model-notation10
dfa10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
legalese/legalese-google-app
May 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:303 commits, 4 PRs, 200 pushes in 5 years
google-appsfillingjavascriptspreadsheet
smucclaw/complaw
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Main repository for the Research Programme in Computational Law
Contributions:367 commits, 18 PRs, 306 pushes in 2 years 8 months
ldalawprogrammestatistical-learningcomputational
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