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Note: While some TAs are marked as online TAs, both on-campus and online (Coursera) students should feel free to consult any TA for anything in the course. Please note that assignment of TAs to online or on-campus below is tentative, and not confirmed until first day of lecture.
Position Name Office Location E-mail Office Hours
Professor Indranil Gupta (Indy) 3112 SC indy See table below
Professor Aishwarya Ganesan 3120 SC aganesn2 See table below
Professor Ram Kesavan 3120 SC rkesavan See table below
Lead TA
 Chirag Shetty See table below
 cshetty2
See table below
TA
 Kartik Ramesh See table below kartikr2 See table below
TA
 Madhav Jivrajani See table below madhavj2 See table below
TA
 Hanbo Guo See table below hanbog2 See table below
TA
 Gabriella Xue See table below fanxue2 See table below
TA
 Nishant Sheikh See table below nsheikh2 See table below
Lead MCS Online (Coursera) TA, and Deputy Lead TA
 Lilia Tang See table below liliat2 See table below
MCS Online TA Tianchen Wang See table below tw17 See table below
MCS Online TA
 Talha Waheed See table below twaheed2 See table below
MCS Online TA
 Ashish Kashinath See table below ashishk3 See table below

 


Contacting Staff


In decreasing order of priority (try steps 1 and 2 first):

  1. Did you check the Syllabus pdf? It has answers to most logistical questions! See the ``Syllabus'' pdf on the main page.
  2. Fastest option (and most preferable): Discussion Forum: Follow the Piazza Link.
  3. Are you sure your question cannot be, or was not, answered on Piazza? Please wait 24-48 hours to receive a response on Piazza! Go back to Step 1 if needed. Only in desperation (or if you have a private question), proceed to Step 3.
  4. Course mailing list: cs-425-staff@mx.uillinois.edu (Use to submit questions and also submit your MPs)
    • For faster response to your e-mail communications, please put [CS425] in the subject line.
    • Please do not email individual staff unless absolutely necessary.
  5. Visit the instructor or TA during office hours (see below).
  6. [Piazza monitoring starts after first lecture and onwards only (Aug 26 3.15 pm US Central, and onwards)]


Office Hours by Day of Week

[Office hours (for all students, including Coursera students) start after first on-campus lecture and onwards only (Aug 26 Tue 3.15 pm US Central, and onwards)]
All Office Hours can be used by all students (On-campus, MCS Coursera, MCS Chicago), unless otherwise noted (Note that some weekend and weeknight office hours are only for Coursera students).
Before you head to any Office Hours for a given day, please check the pinned Piazza post titled "Office Hours Exceptions" to see if any of those OH timings have changed for that day.
Zoom links: See Piazza.
We will be using Queue inside the Zoom sessions. Please use that queue link!
All times are US Central time.

Day of Week
Who?
When?
Where?
Monday Chirag Shetty 12PM-1PM Zoom: see Piazza
Monday Madhav Jivrajani 4PM-5PM Zoom: see Piazza
Monday (MCS Coursera only) Indy Gupta (Professor)
5PM-6PM (Coursera Students only) Zoom: see Piazza
Monday Kartik Ramesh 6PM-7PM Zoom: see Piazza
Tuesday Madhav Jivrajani 10AM-11AM Zoom: see Piazza
Tuesday Kartik Ramesh 11AM-12PM Zoom: see Piazza
Tuesday Indy Gupta (Professor) - OHs only on day that he lectures!
Right after lecture to 4PM (talk to instructor right after lecture in class, or wait for them to reach office) 3112 SC
Tuesday Aishwarya Ganesan (Professor) - OHs only on day that she lectures!
Right after lecture to 4PM (talk to instructor right after lecture in class, or wait for them to reach office) 3120 SC
Wednesday Gabriella Xue 9AM-10AM Zoom: see Piazza
Wednesday Hanbo Guo 11AM-12PM Zoom: see Piazza
Wednesday Nishant Sheikh 2PM-3PM Zoom: see Piazza
Thursday Gabriella Xue 9AM-10AM Zoom: see Piazza
Thursday Indy Gupta (Professor) - OHs only on day that he lectures!
 Right after lecture to 4PM (talk to instructor right after lecture in class, or wait for them to reach office) 3112 SC
Thursday Aishwarya Ganesan (Professor) - OHs only on day that she lectures!
Right after lecture to 4PM (talk to instructor right after lecture in class, or wait for them to reach office) 3120 SC
Thursday Hanbo Guo 8PM-9PM Zoom: see Piazza
Friday Nishant Sheikh 2PM-3PM Zoom: see Piazza
Friday (MCS Coursera only) Ashish Kashinath 4PM-5PM Zoom: see Piazza
Friday (MCS Coursera only) Talha Waheed 6PM-7PM Zoom: see Piazza
Saturday (On-campus and MCS Coursera) Talha Waheed 11AM-12PM Zoom: see Piazza
Saturday (MCS Coursera only) Tianchen Wang 3PM-4PM Zoom: see Piazza
Sunday (On-campus only) Lilia Tang 10AM-11AM Zoom: see Piazza
Sunday (MCS Coursera only) Tianchen Wang 3PM-4PM Zoom: see Piazza
Sunday (MCS Coursera only) Ashish Kashinath 4PM-5PM Zoom: see Piazza