Stanford University
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Researcher · Academic · Founder
Ren Ng
UC BerkeleyProfessor
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.
Career & education
Current roleUC Berkeley2015-presentProfessor
UC Berkeley2015-presentPreviously
Lytro2006-2018
FounderEducation
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations46,134As of Oct 15, '26
Selected contributions
NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis
NeRF learns a 3D scene from photos to render it from new viewpoints.
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