Professor
Harold Pimentel
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Most Helpful Review
Fall 2025 - Prof Pimentel does the first 7ish weeks of class: He covers a lot of stats which I wasn't expecting, but it wasn't that bad if you've taken stats classes before. There's a couple coding assignments and one math HW, but nothing is too bad if you pay attention (TA's are also very helpful in OH). Practice midterm prepared us extremely well for the midterm, which was very fair. Prof Eskin takes over for the final weeks of class: His lectures were mostly about new science LLMs and other random topics he found interesting, which was neat to hear about and a nice change of pace. We had one pretty chill assignment and that was it for the last month of class. The midterm could replace the final so I didn't have to take the final which was really nice and appreciated. Overall, this class is a pretty chill CS elective and not that much work, and the professors are pretty cool. Definitely would recommend.
Fall 2025 - Prof Pimentel does the first 7ish weeks of class: He covers a lot of stats which I wasn't expecting, but it wasn't that bad if you've taken stats classes before. There's a couple coding assignments and one math HW, but nothing is too bad if you pay attention (TA's are also very helpful in OH). Practice midterm prepared us extremely well for the midterm, which was very fair. Prof Eskin takes over for the final weeks of class: His lectures were mostly about new science LLMs and other random topics he found interesting, which was neat to hear about and a nice change of pace. We had one pretty chill assignment and that was it for the last month of class. The midterm could replace the final so I didn't have to take the final which was really nice and appreciated. Overall, this class is a pretty chill CS elective and not that much work, and the professors are pretty cool. Definitely would recommend.
Most Helpful Review
Fall 2025 - Professor Pimentel is the GOAT. He gave lectures in a very very very engaging way and is very easy in terms of leaving doable and interesting assignments. Involves a lot of maths and stats in this class, but are all super helpful in terms of understanding RNA seq and underlying algorithms. He put a lot of effort into teaching this class and have very well prepared material. Although I would appreciate he goes beyond RNA sequencing and maybe go through other stuff like proteomics data. But he's exams and HWs are all pretty fair and he offers extra credit opportunities that worth 5% of your grade in total. His OH are super helpful and he is doing a wonderful job in explaining concepts during class. I would definitely recommend everyone taking this class, especially if you're doing RNA seq related research work. I honestly wish he will be teaching more lectures in the future cuz it's such an honor to take the class with such responsible and helpful professor.
Fall 2025 - Professor Pimentel is the GOAT. He gave lectures in a very very very engaging way and is very easy in terms of leaving doable and interesting assignments. Involves a lot of maths and stats in this class, but are all super helpful in terms of understanding RNA seq and underlying algorithms. He put a lot of effort into teaching this class and have very well prepared material. Although I would appreciate he goes beyond RNA sequencing and maybe go through other stuff like proteomics data. But he's exams and HWs are all pretty fair and he offers extra credit opportunities that worth 5% of your grade in total. His OH are super helpful and he is doing a wonderful job in explaining concepts during class. I would definitely recommend everyone taking this class, especially if you're doing RNA seq related research work. I honestly wish he will be teaching more lectures in the future cuz it's such an honor to take the class with such responsible and helpful professor.
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