Xianglin Li

2-4 hrs/week

made me wanna become a doctor

6/6/2024

6-8 hrs/week

Li is a great professor, but you need to take the steps to ensure you understand the material outside of the class. Highly recommend doing the practice problems in the textbook before exams

5/20/2024

a great professor

11/22/2022

Homework is so difficult and it is useless.

11/7/2022

I think he must be much busier than before. Which means he always seems unprepared for the class. Also, he is reluctant to give credits to the students who struggle. I got A Level in another math class much harder than optimization, so I believe this is not my problem finding this course is really hard to learn. Good luck guys, things are changed.

11/2/2022

Professor Li often repeats himself on difficult-to-understand topics which was very helpful. He cares about his students and really wants them to succeed. The final exam schedule was made last minute, which was a bit stressful.

1/13/2021

Professor Li was great at explaining things and was usually very organized in class, making sure to cover all of the necessary background information before diving right into the more rigorous optimization content. The material was interesting, the workload was manageable, and there was even opportunities to make up for missed points.

1/9/2021

Li really knows his material and is very mathematical. You will struggle but learn to appreciate optimization.

4/20/2018