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    Ren Ng

    Ren Ng

    Ren Ng with Lytro light field camera in 2012.

    Born

    Yi-Ren Ng


    (1979-09-21) September 21, 1979 (age 45)

    Malaysia

    Occupation(s)Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
    Founder, Executive Chairman and Former CEO, Lytro

    Yi-Ren Ng (born September 21, 1979[citation needed]) is a Malaysian American scientist who is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the founder, executive chairman and CEO of Lytro, a Mountain View, California-based startup company.[1][2] Lytro was developing consumer light-field cameras based on Ng's graduate research at Stanford University.[3] Lytro ceased operations in late March 2018.[4][5]

    Early life and education

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    Ng was born in Malaysia, and immigrated to Australia at the age of 9.[6] He earned a B.S. degree in mathematical and computational science in 2001, an M.S. in computer science in 2002, and a Ph.D. in computer science in 2006, all from Stanford University.[7] His doctoral dissertation, titled Digital Light Field Photography,[8] received the 2006 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.[

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    Teaching Schedule

    Spring 2025

    Biography

    Ren Ng is a professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in imaging, graphics, computer vision, human vision and artificial intelligence. Prior to Berkeley, Ren was founder and CEO of Lytro, Inc., which commercialized his Ph.D. research and brought consumer light field cameras to market. Ren completed his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University, and received the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award and Stanford's Arthur Samuel Award. Ren has received the 2020 ECCV Best Paper Honorable Mention, Jim and Donna Gray Faculty Award for Undergraduate Teaching, Hellman Faculty Fellowship, Sloan Research Fellowship, the HIPA Photographic Research Award, PMDA Technical Achievement Award, R.I.T.'s Imaging Hall of Fame, the Selwyn Award from the Royal Photographic Society, MIT Tech Review's TR35 and Entrepreneur of the Year, Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business, and Silicon Valley Journal's 40 under 40.

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    Education

    • 2006, Ph.D., Computer Science, Stanford University
    • 2006, M.S., Computer Science, Stanford University
    • 2001, B.S., Mathematical and Computational Science, Stanford University

    Selected Publications
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    Ren Ng

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