I took Kadambi in Spring 2020 so it was completely online. He was a really fun and nice professor and his annotated slides are really good. He follows the philosophy of offering hard classes with easier/relaxed grading. The homework was pretty hard and I spent multiple days on it every week. But the midterm and final were actually easier than the HWs (median for the midterm was 91.5). He made both the midterm and final 24 hours long before the quarter even started. He does this because he sympathizes with the difficulty of the UC system compared to private schools (he went to Berkeley for undergrad and MIT for his PhD). Overall, really fun and cool professor and I personally would take this class with Kadambi again if I had to!

Professor Kadambi is a fantastic professor, and even though he's fairly new to the whole professorship spiel, his lecturing was concise and engaging. This quarter, the class was taught online, and his method of administering the course was recording the lecture, having us watch it on our own, and letting us ask questions (office hours style) during Wednesday "lecture" - so a flipped classroom. He also annotated slides which were uploaded in both un-annotated and annotated form. Additionally the TAs would upload discussion worksheets with solutions including all the work to get to the solution, and this helped immensely with figuring out how to approach the homeworks.

All in all, I would take another class with this professor if I could.

This is an excellent class, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. He is incredibly passionate and cares a lot about the students. Was very generous and understanding. I would also recommend that this class by cross listed as both a CS and EE course.

The professor is very nice, humorous, and explains concepts clearly. The course workload is also quite manageable, with exams that are reasonably challenging. The only minor issue is that the course schedule can be a bit tight, leading to some content being skipped towards the end. It might be helpful to organize and allocate the lecture time more effectively.

Best professor I have ever had. He's awesome, super caring for his students, and genuinely just loves teaching. Take any class with Professor Kadambi and you will not regret it that is a guarantee.

One of the most interesting class I've taken at UCLA so far! grading is stress-free, material is super interesting, and the professor is very fun!

Material is interesting. Office hours are fantastic and definitely worth attending.

Best class ever. Free A

Kadambi is pretty cool prof. Gives cool grad student vibes. His tests could be a bit confusing, but I thought he taught pretty well. His quizzes were stress-inducing and he seemed strangely attached to justifying their existence and use. Also loved his rant about how much money he has from selling his startup (in response to an anonymous student review saying he needs to touch grass and work in industry). We literally had to watch a recorded make-up lecture afterwards to cover the material because he spent like 40 minutes talking about how much money he made and how many patents he has which was hilarious.

Syllabus can be found at tiny.cc/ucla113. The class is poorly structured although I expect it to improve since prof takes feedback quite seriously. The lectures are engaging although he often goes on tangents and talks about industry, which I still find confusing. The biggest problem I had was that his quizzes, homework and review sessions were not representative of the kinds of problems on the test. I also feel like prof does not have much time for the class and nor do the TA's(although not their fault). Speaking of TA's there is only one at a time, which is kind of strange. Professor is also strangely obsessed with grades and decreasing randomness.

All that being said, it's not that bad if you go in with a more open mind, I think you can learn a lot from the class, and I would take it with him rather than the other professors for this class.