Greg Ward is an independent consultant working in Albany, California. He graduated with an A.B. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley, and earned his Master’s in Computer Science from San Francisco State University. Ward has published numerous papers in computer graphics and illumination engineering. He is also the inventor of an imaging `gonioreflectometer´ for the measurement of reflectance of architectural materials, and the developer of the Materials and Geometry Format for lighting information exchange. Greg wrote the core and bulk of `Radiance´ – his life’s work – and for which he received The Daylight Award in 2018.