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Ren Ng is a Malaysian-born American entrepreneur and computer scientist. He is best known as the founder and former CEO of Lytro, a company that developed the world's first consumer light field camera. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Ng was born in Malaysia and moved to the United States at the age of 16. He earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from Stanford University in 2002 and a PhD in computer science from Stanford in 2006. Ng founded Lytro in 2006 and served as its CEO until 2014. Under his leadership, Lytro developed the world's first consumer light field camera, which allowed users to refocus images after they had been taken. The company was acquired by Google in 2018. Ng is currently an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches courses on computer vision and computational photography. He is also the executive chairman of Lytro. Ng has received numerous awards and honors, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the MIT Technology Review TR35 Award, and the Wall Street Journal Innovator of the Year Award.

Popular As Yi-Ren Ng
Occupation Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley Founder, Executive Chairman and Former CEO, Lytro
Age 45 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 21 September 1979
Birthday 21 September
Birthplace Malaysia
Nationality Malaysia

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2015

In July 2015, Ng became an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences at College of Engineering of University of California, Berkeley.

2013

In 2013 Ng was awarded the Royal Photographic Society's Selwyn Award given to those under the age of 35 years who have conducted successful science-based research connected with imaging.

2012

Ng interned at Microsoft from June 2000 to September 2000 and June 2003 to September 2003 while studying at Stanford. After graduation in 2006, Ng founded Lytro and was CEO for more than six years. On June 29, 2012, Ng announced that he would step aside as CEO in order to spend more time on the vision for the company and less on its day-to-day operations. Ng also would become executive chairman and remain at Lytro full-time. Charles Chi, then executive chairman, served as interim CEO until Ng chose former Ning chief Jason Rosenthal as Lytro's new CEO in March 2013 after a lengthy external search.

2001

Ng was born in Malaysia, and immigrated to Australia at the age of 9. 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. His doctoral dissertation, titled Digital Light Field Photography, received the 2006 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.

1979

Yi-Ren Ng (born September 21, 1979) is an assistant 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. Lytro was developing consumer light-field cameras based on Ng's graduate research at Stanford University. Lytro ceased operations in late March 2018.