Andrew WillmottQuickWorkI am currently working on Autonomous Vehicles at the startup Wayve, who are tackling the "moon shot" of applying end-to-end Deep Learning to the problem. Lots of very cool stuff to work on -- we are hiring! From 2014 through 2018 I worked at Sports Interactive (Sega) on Football Manager, a game with a culture entirely its own. Working on a yearly title that ships across five platforms (while dealing with a 20-year-old codebase) was an interesting experience.     From 2001 through 2013 I worked for the 'Sim' game studio, Maxis, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts, located in the San Francisco Bay Area. (Initially at Walnut Creek, then Redwood Shores, and then Emeryville, and then remotely from London for a few years.) The major Maxis games I worked on were:
On the graphics side I've dealt with visual effects, lighting, shadows, material systems, LOD, mesh animation, terrain, and procedural generation systems. On the systems side, a little bit of everything. Technology I've worked on has shipped as part of several other games, e.g., My Sims, Sims 3, Darkspore. Some of the systems behind the games I've worked on are covered on my talks page. Also see my LinkedIn page.
Graphics R & DBefore joining Maxis I was doing research work in the area of global illumination, in particular hierarchical methods for ray-tracing and radiosity. At CMU I worked on a comparison of radiosity algorithms, various ray-tracing projects, wavelets for triangular elements, and hierarchical radiosity using multiresolution models, which led to the development of the face clustering algorithm. My PhD advisor was Paul Heckbert. Since then a lot of my work has involved R & D in the area of real-time rendering. Some recent publications and other output:
See my papers, talks, and tech notes pages for a complete overview. I'm currently on the editorial board for JCGT, an open-access journal with a practical focus that I can highly recommend. PersonalMini bio: born and mostly grew up in Auckland, New Zealand, but I've lived a variety of places, including Jakarta, Indonesia, and Pittsburgh and the Bay Area in the U.S.A. These days I'm a citizen of the UK, living in London and Wales. Education: Auckland Grammar School. BSc. in Physics, MSc. in Computer Science, University of Auckland. PhD., Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, advised by Paul Heckbert. |
