Tom Hillman

Tom Hillman is a physics PhD student at Harvard University in the Joonho Lee Group, where he works on implementations of quantum Monte Carlo methods including neural quantum states. He read mathematics at the University of Cambridge (Trinity College), graduating with a BA and MMath in 2023, and moved to Harvard for his PhD the same year. As a schoolboy at St Albans School he represented the United Kingdom at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2018 and 2019 (silver medals both years) and won a silver medal at the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics in 2018. He completed a 12-week Quantitative Trading Analyst internship at the proprietary trading firm DRW in summer 2022.

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• Current role: graduate student in the Joonho Lee Group (Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology / Physics), listed as 'Graduate Student (Physics, G3)'. The group page states he studied mathematics at Cambridge, graduating BA and MMath in 2023, and is interested in developing implementations of quantum Monte Carlo methods, with applications including neural quantum states. Primary-source confirmation of his current Harvard position and research focus.2025
• Identity is the UK Olympiad contestant, not a namesake: the LinkedIn profile (Thomas Hillman) is headed 'Two-time IMO silver medallist, IOAA gold medallist' and states Cambridge Trinity + Harvard Physics PhD, matching the IMO 2018/2019 UK team member and St Albans School pupil.2025
• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. His LinkedIn profile (self-reported, surfaced via the structured people index) lists a 12-week 'Quantitative Trading Analyst Intern' role at DRW in summer 2022, described as two Python research projects - investigating trading strategies and analysing large datasets with in-house technology. Identity is independently supported by IMO 2018/2019 UK team results and the Harvard Joonho Lee Group member page. Employer classification: DRW (drw.com) is a real proprietary/diversified trading firm, and a US SEC filing lists DRW Securities, LLC as a Market Maker / Proprietary Trading firm, so it genuinely operates in quantitative/proprietary trading - the classification does not rest on the name. Caveat: the role itself rests on his own self-reported profile, not independent primary-source confirmation, so it is index/self-reported evidence rather than a third-party record.2022
• Public Harvard contact: [contact omitted], published on his research group's member page (a current institutional address, not scraped or inferred).2025
• DRW employer classification: DRW (drw.com) describes itself as 'a diversified trading firm' deploying technology to make markets, and a US SEC filing lists DRW Securities, LLC as a Market Maker / Proprietary Trading firm - an actual quantitative/proprietary trading house, not merely a name containing 'quant'.2024
• Education timeline: St Albans School (2014-2019), University of Cambridge BA + MMath in Mathematics at Trinity College (2019-2023), then a Physics PhD at Harvard University (listed span 2023-2029). Stated on his own LinkedIn profile (self-reported).2023
• IMO 2019: represented the United Kingdom at the 60th IMO (Bath, UK), silver medal, 25 points, rank 132. Primary source: IMO official results for the UK team.Jul 2019
• IOAA 2018 (Beijing): Thomas Hillman of St Albans School won a silver medal at the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics, having been selected for the UK team via an astrophysics competition held in Oxford. Corroborates the Olympiad identity independent of LinkedIn.Dec 4, 2018
• IMO 2018: represented the United Kingdom, silver medal, 26 points, rank 122 (problems P1-P6: 7,4,0,7,5,3). Primary source: IMO official results for the UK team.Jul 2018
• His LinkedIn headline also claims an 'IOAA gold medallist' title; only the 2018 IOAA silver is independently confirmed in press, so the gold claim rests on his own self-reported profile alone.2025
• Contributed a problem to the British Mathematical Olympiad as a UK proposer (BMOS news lists 'problems ... proposed by the UK (Tom Hillman)'); his LinkedIn lists volunteering with the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust from Sep 2019.2020
• Named as a 2019 UK IMO team member (St Albans School) in the London Mathematical Society announcement.Jul 4, 2019