Tom Hartvigsen - Research Group

Tom Hartvigsen

Responsible AI in Varying Environments 🪩

Postdocs

PhD Students

Bryan Christ (co-advisor w/ Paul Perrin; SDS)
Mingtian Tan (co-advisor w/ Dave Evans; CS)
Karolina Naranjo-Velasco (co-advisor w/ Yangfeng Ji; SDS)
Zhanwen Chen (SDS)
Zack Gottesman (SDS)
Medhasweta Sen (SDS)
Xu Ouyang (CS)
Himanshu Beniwal (visiting)

Undergraduate Students

Hugo Barnes
Chelsea Qian

Joining

Applications for Fall 2025 Data Science PhD positions are CLOSED---please do not contact me for admissions unless you have already applied. If you are interested in joining my group as a PhD student in Fall 2026 in Data Science, please apply directly to the UVA Data Science PhD program (will re-open Fall 2025). If you want to get in touch, send me an email with "[PHD APPLICANT]" in the subject line. Please also include your CV, briefly describe your research vision, and mention which of our recent papers aligns best with your interests and why. I cannot promise responses to emails that don't meet these criteria. If you believe I've missed your email (and it meets the criteria) please feel free to follow up!

If you are a current Undergraduate, Masters, or PhD student at UVA looking to do a project with me, please send me an email with "[CURRENT STUDENT]" in the subject line, describe your interests (as specifically as possible), and mention which which of our recent papers aligns best with your interests and why.

I am NOT recruiting Masters students through the Data Science program at this point. If you are already a Masters student at UVA, please feel free to get in touch as described above. However, I am not recruiting new masters students through our masters program.

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Mentoring Philosophy

While we conduct exciting research in a fast-paced field, a healthy work-life balance and general wellbeing are key to sustained research success.

I aim to broaden participation in machine learning research in all aspects. Intersecting more perspectives fosters creativity, so folks from all walks of life are welcome in my group and I do my best to accommodate everyone's situation.

Conducting successful research should be fun and involve diving deep into details. To facilitate this, students and I work together to define concrete problems we are both excited about.

I encourage and foster independence at all stages of students' degrees.

A big component of doing a PhD is self-discovery, so I encourage students to try new things and read broadly. One way I facilitate this is through weekly paper sharing during our group meetings.

Supervision logistics: I meet each student 1:1 for 1 hour per week. This meeting is student-led and often focuses on research updates and feedback. I try to be available as much as possible for paper-writing and other support.

*I don't condone the overuse of "AI," but "RAVE" sounds cooler than "RMLVE," "RNLPVE," or "RMLNLPVE".

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