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.

On June 29, 2012, Ng announced that he would step aside as CEO in order to spend more time on the vision for the company and less on its day-to-day operations.

Charles Chi, then executive chairman, served as interim CEO until Ng chose former Ning chief Jason Rosenthal as Lytro's new CEO in March 2013 after a lengthy external search.