Background
Ng was born in Malaysia, and emigrated to Australia at the age of 9.
Ng was born in Malaysia, and emigrated to Australia at the age of 9.
He earned a Bachelor of Surgery degree in mathematical and computational science in 2001, an Master of Surgery in computer science in 2002, and a Doctor of Philosophy in computer science in 2006, all from Stanford University.
Lytro is developing consumer light-field cameras based on Ng"s graduate research at Stanford University. 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 Chief Executive Officer for more than six years.
On June 29, 2012, Ng announced that he would step aside as Chief Executive Officer 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 Chief Executive Officer until Ng chose former Ning chief Jason Rosenthal as Lytro"s new Chief Executive Officer in March 2013 after a lengthy external search.
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. 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.