Office Hours/Contact
Weekly calendar
Here is a calendar of all office hours that the course staff offer. If you would like to speak to a staff member 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).
Staff members will have the same office hours every week. Should there be a change to someone’s hours, there will be a post on Piazza, and the calendar will be updated.
All office hours will be held online this semester, via Microsoft Teams. We are going to be trying a new office-hours queuing website, built this summer by Khoury College students, available at https://khouryofficehours.com/. A short tutorial on how to use the site can be found here. If you cannot get the site to work for you, sign into Teams and @-mention the tutor or TA in the General channel of your lab Team. They should be notified, and will hopefully get to you quickly.
Piazza
Piazza is an on-line forum for class discussions as well as announcements. Anybody can post a question, and anybody can reply. You are expected to read Piazza announcements from the course staff. Announcements are generally made only through Piazza, although crucial ones will be accompanied by an email. By default, your personal Piazza email settings apply (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 has already
been asked but not yet been answered, then—
Posting (any parts of) a solution to (any parts of) a homework is tantamount to cheating. 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 means you are anonymous to other students but not to staff members.
Staff
- your instructors
- your course coordinators
Nicole Brewer
email your teaching assistants
Daniel Goldstein
email
Sidney La Fontaine
email
Carter Codell
email
Nick Thompson
email
Jake Hansen
email
Aislin Black
email
Jennifer Der
email
Olek Gierczak
email
Nate Yazdani
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
Eleanor Adams
email
Anurag Arasan
email
Thanoshi Balasuriya
email
Nithin Chintala
email
Brock Fenbert
email
Nicole Gerzon
email
Zachary Goldberg
email
Cassandra Harbour
email
Athena Huang
email
Ryan Jung
email
Dennis Kats
email
Levi Leach
email
Edward Li
email
Cindy Luo
email
Daniel Melcer
email
Nicholas Miklaucic
email
Anthony Mu
email
Jia Mu
email
Mark Murphy
email
Harrison Naftelberg
email
Yogesh Nizzer
email
Jolene Okamoto
email
Willie Serkin
email
Aryan Shah
email
Willa Shiomos
email
Atharva Shukla
email
Sukhman Singh
email
Benjamin Walls
email
Stanley Wu
email
Brian Yang
email
Karli Young
email
Zachary Youssef
email
Yasmin Zhamborova
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
Matt Blanco
email
Justin Chen
email
Tina Chen
email
Justin Kwon
email
Braedon Pani
email
Ayush Shenvi Pissurlenkar
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 (Natural) 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.
Justin Chen: Mandarin
Athena Huang: Mandarin
Atharva Shukla: Hindi
Dennis Kats: Russian
Somya Prabhakar: Hindi and Spanish (conversant)
Cindy Luo: Cantonese
Ayush Shenvi Pissurlenkar: Hindi
Edward Li: Mandarin
Nicole Gerzon: Russian
Shu Zhang: Mandarin
Aryan Shah: Hindi
Yasmin Zhamborova: Russian
Daniel Goldstein: Hebrew
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. Try office hours.
If you have a question that you prefer to ask in a non-public setting, again try (the instructors’) office hours, or 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.