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]

  1. ^ Manu Kumar (June 22, 2011). "The Making of Lytro". Retrieved June 23, 2011.
  2. ^ Ina Fried (June 21, 2011). "Meet the Stealthy Start-Up That Aims to Sharpen Focus of Entire Camera Industry". Retrieved June 23, 2011.
  3. ^ Rachel Metz (November 21, 2005). "Say Sayonara to Blurry Pics". Wired. Wired News. Retrieved June 23, 2011.
  4. ^ Robertson, Adi (March 27, 2018). "VR camera maker Lytro is shutting down, and former employees are going to Google". The Verge. Vox Media. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  5. ^ Price, Molly (March 27, 2018). "Google acquires some Lytro folks as the company shutters". CNET. Retrieved 3 July 2018.