Adam Fairfield Email & Phone Number

I'm a graphics engineer on Minecraft. I maintain our cross-platform rendering engine and material pipeline, which provides 5+ graphics APIs for Minecraft's variety of shipping platforms.I also author effects/shaders for the Bedrock version of Minecraft, which includes significant contributions to the (cancelled) "SuperDuper Graphics Pack" and "Minecraft with RTX".

Redmond, Wa

I worked as a test engineer on Windows and XBOX graphics. My primary areas of focus were gaming, DirectX 12 and PIX.

Redmond, Wa

I worked as a test engineer on the HLSL compiler. I wrote and maintained tools to test conformance of the compiler.

Visual Analytics And Data Exploratory Research Lab

I worked as an undergraduate research assistant to Dr. Ross Maciejewski. Research focuses on graphics techniques in fields such as: NPR (Non-Photo-realistic Rendering), Data Visualization, Visual Analytics, Volume Rendering. I headed research on 3 projects, 2 of which I was awarded grant funding, and contributed to 2 more.

University Technology Office

I developed online dashboards that allowed ASU faculty and staff to navigate financial and educational data. I wrote front-end visualizations, SQL and back-end server scripts.

Imaging & 3D Data Exploitation & Analysis Lab

I worked as an Undergraduate Research Assistant in the I3DEA Graphics Lab to develop a military UAV surveillance training simulator using C++, GLSL and the Delta3D game engine. I helped implement systems that allowed the UAV operator to fly and maneuver the camera, while the system analyzed the operator's surveillance performance.

Longmont, Co

I received a summer internship at Circle Graphics in Longmont, Colorado during 2007. Here I worked in the Art Preparation department using graphic editing tools such as: Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel Draw, In-Design, etc...