Office Hours/Contact
Weekly calendar
Here is a calendar of all the office hours that the course staff offer. If you would like to speak to an instructor and you cannot make it to their office hours, send an email to set up a meeting. If you have a general question and cannot make it to anyone’s office hours, post to Piazza (see below).
For the most part, office hours are in ISEC, and staff members will have the same office hours every week. On Monday and Thursday evenings, we will have multiple rooms in the ISEC building. Before going to someone’s hours, check where they will be on the calendar below. Should there be a change to someone’s hours, there will be a post on Piazza and the calendar will be updated.
Piazza
Piazza is an on-line forum for class discussions as well as announcements. Anybody can post a question and anybody else can reply, and you are expected to read announcements from the course staff. You will recieve an email when crucial announcements are made, otherwise Piazza will default to your email settings (which you can configure by clicking the wheel in the upper right corner).
To sign up for Piazza, click the link above.
Before posting, check whether or not your question has already been asked. If it already has been asked and has not yet been answered, provided the question is not more than a day old, it likely will be answered soon. Do not double post.
Posting any parts of a solution to any parts of a homework is considered cheating. You don’t want to do this. Limit your answers to other students to providing clarity when needed and hints when appropriate. This is good practice should you ever want to be a tutor :)
Note: anonymity on Piazza is implemented to make you anonymous to students but not to staff members.
Staff
- your instructors
- your course coordinators
Rebecca MacKenzie
email your teaching assistants
Aislin Black
email
Ryan Bradford
email
Luciana Corteggiano
email
Jason Crouse
email
Amogh Dayal
email
Jennifer Der
email
John Gallagher
email
Daniel Goldstein
email
Jake Hansen
email
Sidney La Fontaine
email
Raquel Levy
email
Jack Mastrangelo
email
Iman Moreira
email
Nicholas Thompson
emailTAs teach labs, supervise the grading of homework sets, hold office hours, and grade exams. In general, they are apprentice teachers and are here to learn how to run a course.
your tutors
Chase Bishop
email
Jordan Buchman
email
Nithin Chintala
email
Nadiia Damrina
email
Tatiana Ediger
email
Brock Fenbert
email
Shuhang Feng
email
Yu-Ting Ger
email
Cassandra Harbour
email
Ryan Hart
email
Swati Joshi
email
Dennis Kats
email
Levi Leach
email
Zachary Lee
email
Edward Li
email
Xuyang Li
email
Iris Liu
email
Cindy Luo
email
Jolene Okamoto
email
Alanna Pasco
email
Deepak Ramesh Sethuraman
email
Konstantin Rezchikov
email
Ryan Schaefer
email
Willa Shiomos
email
Shanmukha Srinivasan
email
David Stephenson
email
Isaac Walker
email
Benjamin Walls
email
Akira Watanabe
email
Logen Witz
email
Brian Yang
email
Karli Young
email
Zachary Youssef
email
Cathleen Zhang
email
David Zhang
email
Sabrina Zhang
email
Shu Zhang
emailTutors hold office hours, help out in labs, and grade homeworks and provide feedback about the class’s progress. In general, they are undergraduate and graduate students who know that to learn something really well, you need to teach it.
your graders
Matthew Guthrie
email
Owen Loveluck
email
Varun Tankala
email
Ifteda Ahmed-Syed
emailGraders are staff members who exclusively grade homeworks. You won’t find them in office hours but can always reach out via email to ask questions about their feedback.
Other Languages
If you feel that you would benefit from help in another language, we have some staff who are willing and able to help. Below is a list of the languages we are able to accomodate and who you should go to for help in that language.
Bangla (Ifteda Ahmed-Syed)
Cantonese (Cindy Luo)
French (Raquel Levy)
Gujarati (Amogh Dayal)
Hebrew (Daniel Goldstein)
Hindi (Amogh Dayal, Ifteda Ahmed-Syed)
Mandarin (Zachary Lee, Edward Li, Iris Liu, Sabrina Zhang, Shu Zhang)
Portuguese (Raquel Levy)
Spanish (Luci Corteggiano, Zachary Lee)
Urdu (Ifteda Ahmed-Syed)
When you need help with the lecture material, the lab material, or the
homeworks, don’t despair—
A meeting with a tutor, TA, or instructor is the best to get explanations because you can ask questions in real time and get answers to them.
If you have a question that you prefer to ask in a non-public setting, feel free to send email to anybody on the course staff.
Note that we may post anonymous excerpts from your mail message on Piazza if we consider it of general interest. If you want the message to remain completely private, be sure to request it when you send an email.