Rebeca Hwang focuses on network-building to connect entrepreneurs and innovators around the world through YouNoodle's online platforms and products. Formally trained as a chemical, civil and environmental engineer at MIT and Cambridge, Hwang has been awarded for her work in the sciences and is the holder of multiple patents.
She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford, focusing on the role of social network structures on the performance of water cooperatives.
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Entrepreneur Rebeca Hwang talks about her experiences at MIT, where she built products in the lab and then deployed them in the field to solve real world problems. Hwang also discusses why technologists don't know everything, and why spending time in the field is necessary to appreciate all the institutional factors in play.