Ren Ng
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Dr. Ren Ng is the founder and the chief executive officer
of a Mountain View, California
-based start-up
, Lytro, Inc. (formerly Refocus Imaging). The company is developing light field
technology for digital cameras (i.e. commercialization of the plenoptic camera
) and has received $50 million in venture capital
funding..
Lytro unveiled its camera design on Oct. 19, 2011 .
Ng received his Ph.D.
in Computer Science from Stanford University
under Professors Patrick Hanrahan
, Marc Levoy
and Mark Horowitz
. His doctoral dissertation, titled 'Digital Light Field Photography', received the ACM
Award in 2007 (internationally) and the Arthur Samuel Award for Best PhD Dissertation (Stanford University, Computer Science Department).
Ng was born in Malaysia, and emigrated to Australia at the age of 9. He has been interviewed by Mithaq Kazimi
in the Perspactive blog about the technology and his personal interest behind it.
Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...
of a Mountain View, California
Mountain View, California
-Downtown:Mountain View has a pedestrian-friendly downtown centered on Castro Street. The downtown area consists of the seven blocks of Castro Street from the Downtown Mountain View Station transit center in the north to the intersection with El Camino Real in the south...
-based start-up
Startup company
A startup company or startup is a company with a limited operating history. These companies, generally newly created, are in a phase of development and research for markets...
, Lytro, Inc. (formerly Refocus Imaging). The company is developing light field
Light field
The light field is a function that describes the amount of light faring in every direction through every point in space. Michael Faraday was the first to propose that light should be interpreted as a field, much like the magnetic fields on which he had been working for several years...
technology for digital cameras (i.e. commercialization of the plenoptic camera
Plenoptic camera
A light-field camera, also called a plenoptic camera, is a camera that uses a microlens array to capture 4D light field information about a scene...
) and has received $50 million in venture capital
Venture capital
Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...
funding..
Lytro unveiled its camera design on Oct. 19, 2011 .
Ng received his Ph.D.
Ph.D.
A Ph.D. is a Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree.Ph.D. may also refer to:* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip*PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...
in Computer Science from Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
under Professors Patrick Hanrahan
Patrick Hanrahan
Patrick Hanrahan is an Australian writer who was born in Ballarat, Victoria. He lives in Rome, Italy in a country house with his wife, Mirella. He has two sons, Paul Hanrahan, a painter, and Robert Hanrahan, a musician....
, Marc Levoy
Marc Levoy
Marc Levoy is a computer graphics researcher and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is noted for pioneering work in volume rendering....
and Mark Horowitz
Mark Horowitz
Mark A. Horowitz is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University. He received his BS and MS in electrical engineering from MIT in 1978 and he completed his Ph.D in electrical engineering from Stanford University under the direction of Prof. Robert Dutton in...
. His doctoral dissertation, titled 'Digital Light Field Photography', received the ACM
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
Award in 2007 (internationally) and the Arthur Samuel Award for Best PhD Dissertation (Stanford University, Computer Science Department).
Ng was born in Malaysia, and emigrated to Australia at the age of 9. He has been interviewed by Mithaq Kazimi
Mithaq Kazimi
Mithaq Kazimi is a film director and producer, mostly known for his documentary film 16 Days in Afghanistan and founding member of Dawn Breakers International Film Festival...
in the Perspactive blog about the technology and his personal interest behind it.