Titles, Research, and Publications

Warhammer: Age of Reckoning
Electronic Arts, Mythic Studios

Scheduled Release: Fall, 2008

Real-Time Global Illumination using Frame-Coherent Photon Maps
Nathan Hoobler, advised by Dr. David Luebke

Published: Spring 2005, University of Virginia Undergraduate Senior Thesis

Visualizing Competetive Behaviors in Multi-User Virtual Environments
Nathan Hoobler, Greg Humphreys, and Maneesh Agrawala

Published: Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2004
Presented: IEEE Visualization Conference 2004, Austin, TX

Work Experience

August, 2006 - May, 2008

Software Engineer II Electronic Arts (Mythic)

Warhammer Core Technology Team, responsible for developing tools and systems to ensure artistic objectives for the Warhammer experience are achieved while remaining within a performance budgets. Responsibilities include:

rendering optimization
character assembly and management
lighting/shading effects
action effects (including particle, decal, and other effect types)
tool chain support for these and other client features

July, 2005 - August, 2006

Technology Programmer Mythic Entertainment

(See Above)

September, 2002 - May, 2005

Research Assistant University of Virginia

Assistant in the UVA Graphics Research Lab, aiding in several projects both hardware- and software-oriented. This resulted in several independent studies, one of which resulted in a published paper, and another which became an in-depth senior research project. Research work ranged over several topics including:

Behavioral information visualization
rendering level of detail systems
porting image synthesis algorithms to programmable graphics hardware

Education

Fall, 2001 - Spring, 2005

University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
Bachelor's of Science with distinction, Computer Science

GPA: 3.77 (Major), 3.41 (Overall)
Rodman Scholar (Engineering Honor's Program)
Undergraduate Award for Education in Computer Science (2002-2003)
Relevant Coursework:
- Real-Time Rendering
- Image Synthesis
- Animation and Simulation
- Computer Graphics in Film Production
- Modern Research in Computer Graphics