Presenter

Ben Mildenhall is a cofounder of World Labs, where he works on problems at the intersection of graphics, 3D computer vision, and generative AI. From 2021 to 2023, he was a research scientist at Google Research. He completed his PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley in 2020, advised by Ren Ng and supported by a Hertz Fellowship. His work on neural radiance fields and contributions to the fields of 3D scene reconstruction and generation have been recognized by the 2025 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, 2025 SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award, 2021 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention, and 2020 David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize, as well as paper awards at ECCV 2020, ICCV 2021, CVPR 2022, and ICLR 2023.