# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ren-ng
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:10:31.904Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ren-ng"
name: "Ren Ng"
slug: "ren-ng"
description: "Yi-Ren Ng 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. Lytro was developing consumer light-field cameras based on Ng's graduate research at Stanford University. Lytro ceased operations in late March 2018."
tagline: "American businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ren_Ng_with_Lytro_light_field_camera.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1979-09-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.98
  momentum:             0.7894736842105262
  historical:           5.480202666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/renng/"
    handle:    "renng"
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B3"
    title: "レン・ン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%86_%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "رن نج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Ng"
    title: "Ren Ng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%B3%E7%BE%A9%E4%BB%81"
    title: "吳義仁"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A0%8C_%EC%9D%91"
    title: "렌 응"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Ng"
    title: "Ren Ng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7312311"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump