Hart is an assistant professor of practice with the College of Natural Sciences and a postdoctoral fellow affiliated with the Building-Wide Intelligence Project and the Learning Agents Research Group under the supervision of professor Peter Stone in the Department of Computer Science. Hart teaches the Autonomous Robots stream of the Freshman Research Initiative and supervises the UT Austin Villa @ Home RoboCup@Home team. Currently Hart is working on semantic mapping, autonomous human-robot interaction, and artificial intelligence representations and architectures for service robots. He received his M.S., M.Phil, and Ph.D. from Yale University, his M.Eng from Cornell University, and his B.S. from West Virginia University.

He writes: "In particular, I am interested in themes in which we model human intelligence, leverage knowledge of human behavior, or take inspiration from human behavior. Additionally, I am interested in themes which I believe are likely to shape the direction of robotics and move robots into homes, workspaces, and public places, such as service robots. The dual goals of my research are to better understand human intelligence and to push the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics towards widespread robotic deployments that impact our everyday lives."