Ben Mildenhall works on problems at the intersection of graphics and computer vision, specializing in view synthesis and inverse rendering. 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, and received the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention and David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize for his thesis work on neural radiance fields. He has received paper awards at ECCV 2020, ICCV 2021, CVPR 2022, and ICLR 2023.