Ben Mildenhall

Ben Mildenhall is a computer vision and graphics researcher and co-founder of World Labs, a spatial intelligence company. He is best known as the co-inventor of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), a method for representing 3D scenes as neural networks for view synthesis, which he developed during his PhD at UC Berkeley under Ren Ng. He also co-created DreamFusion for text-to-3D generation while a research scientist at Google from 2021 to 2023. He and his co-author Pratul Srinivasan received the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for their contributions to radiance field representations and 3D generative AI.