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Ren Ng

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Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley

Ng pioneered practical light-field photography, which records enough information to refocus an image after it is taken. He commercialized his Stanford dissertation through Lytro, then returned to academia; at Berkeley he studies computational imaging, computer vision and neural scene representations including NeRF.

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Current role
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Previously
2006-presentFounder and CEO,
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Last editorial review: August 9, 2026