Ren Ng

Ren Ng is a scientist and engineer known for inventing Lytro, a groundbreaking camera technology that captures the entire light field of a scene. This allows users to refocus photos after they’re taken, similar to how you can adjust focus in a digital image. Ng’s innovation combines optics and digital processing to create more interactive and flexible photography, changing how images are captured and experienced. His work has advanced the fields of computational photography and optics, earning recognition for improving the way we capture and explore visual moments.