Max Hartman

Max Hartman is a Machine Learning Engineer with notable experience at reputable organizations including Honeywell, Genuine Parts Company, and ElectroKare, where work focused on industrial automation and AI applications. Max undertook graduate research at the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois, emphasizing the interpretability of machine learning models and federated learning. Previous roles include serving as an Undergraduate Research Assistant under Professor Lav Varshney, contributing to LLM meta learning and representation learning. Additionally, Max worked as a Software Development Engineer at Amazon and will join Meta as a Software Engineer in summer 2026. Max holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering with a minor in Physics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is pursuing a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the same institution. Teaching experience includes positions as a Head Teaching Assistant and Undergraduate Teaching Assistant in various engineering courses.