Jennifer Wang

6-8 hrs/week

Very useful for circuit design involving diodes and transistors as well as broader applications with amplifiers and digital logic, but with a huge amount of material also comes with very little time to digest the content being delivered. Per a review from RMP, Professor Wang "runs a tight ship" during class and it does indeed feel like so much material is being squeezed into a semester. Wang also gives really good and succinct notes with great examples. Homework can be very time consuming, but AI recitation sessions are very helpful, as they help to clear confusions associated with certain problems that could be more involved than the examples covered in lecture. Make a really good and thorough cheat sheet for exams with detailed schematics and examples; they\'ll come in handy and are definitely worth the time considering that this class is very exam-heavy.

5/9/2025

Interesting fact: A media in Chinese Apps Xiaohongshu rate his lab that "The lab not recommended to join" and then receive a lawyer\'s letter from him. What he did is really like a famous idol, Xukun Cai. Hope he had been practicing his teaching skill more than two and half years.

10/31/2024

Keep far away from this horrid person; never join his lab; never have any collabration with him; otherwise, you will be in trouble. 

10/31/2024

Don't join his lab, trust me

10/24/2024

The professor only repeats the slides and is also not familiar with his slides... The course is totally meaningless, and it totally wastes the time.

10/17/2024

Prof Wang is definitely an expert in the NLP and LLMs, extremely professional and helpful

10/6/2024

Mainly about working in his group:\n\n NEVER JOIN HIS LAB!!!

8/16/2024

4-6 hrs/week

Dense class to the point where you get front and back of a whole sheet of paper for a cheat sheet on exams. Learn how to effectively make and use your cheat sheets. Interesting class though. Made my brain hurt.

6/5/2024

6-8 hrs/week

The material is interesting and in my opinion, Wang is a good lecturer and her slides and lectures are very helpful. But the class is difficult, make no mistake. I got a B+ but I really had to earn it haha.

5/21/2024

Too easy, once again show how bad CS school is at WashU. For students in places like UCB this course must be like prior knowledge they already know. I can't believe that my classmates are so ignorant of basic concepts in ML, I don't understand how they can still earn BS or MS degrees. They should fail and earn a 2.0 gpa, which they will if in UCB.

5/13/2024

Great Professor! One of the most empathetic and engaged professors I've had so far

4/19/2024

Midterm with a mean of 12.5 out of 25 and weight 25% in total grade. I will avoid at any cost if I know the midterm is such a nightmare. Too many contents for an 80-minute exam. The lectures are VERY fast and are filled with formulas and deductions. Idk why no one ever mentioned the difficulty of this course. Just be careful.

10/30/2023

Nice guy who's very knowledgable and the class is very interesting. Took class for NSM requirement. barely any homework and it's not graded harshly, but tests are the issue. The midterm and final both ask many extremely detailed and insignificant facts that he'll mention once in class and youre expected to memorize random planet densitites.

5/1/2023

Professor Wang runs a tight ship during lecture and covers a lot of material in a short period of time. Explanations are clear, and notes are detailed. Responsive to e-mail, and very receptive to questions on the material. Homework makes you think, but is straightforward. You'll learn a lot. Tests are fair -- make a good reference sheet!

5/15/2021

Professor Wang really knows his stuff and is a good teacher. Very helpful in class as well as office hours. Lectures can be very intense but you'll learn so much, plus homeworks are pretty straightforward, so if you work hard you should be able to get a good grade

11/23/2019

Claims "I don't like to grade based on exams" and then has us do 2 midterms that are worth 30% each, which he calls "quizzes" to make himself feel better. Thinks we are phd level and goes through dozens of growth/development models. Just take another class unless you really want to learn growth/development models.

5/2/2019