Dr.Pedersen is an amazing professor whose lectures focus having all students understand ideas from basic ideas. His explanations on the topic matter is always broadly informed and above all, he cares about the questions of the students. Dr.Pedersen is always readily available, even as he had a rough quarter in other matters he shared about.

Been suffering from insomnia for a while now, but this professor solved that for me! Monotone lectures read directly off the slides put me right to sleep. Literally struggled to stay awake, only took this professor due to schedule limitations

I took his PSTAT 170 in spring, and Pedersen was actually pretty nice that quarter. He was super generous in the quizzes, almost all the quiz problems came from his lecture example or section problems. And he had no homework. His exam was fair too. He probably learned how to be a nice professor after his first quarter teaching this class.

three weeks into the course the syllabus was still missing. Almost no email communication; and when he send email saying he "expected to post the missing syllabus & lectures later that day", he failed to do so in most cases. Barely reply to email or piazza until we emailed the department. Really hypocritical and mean when he does reply on piazza.

He so bad, I write like this to fit word limit. He only prof I write a bad review about in my 4 years. He not complete awful at teaching, but he rarely reply to email, no other way to comm. due to covid. Very irresponsible, often late, while also hypocritical. Had to email PSTAT advisor on 2 occasion to get him to reply and he rude when he does.

Said he would assign 7-8 homeworks when he only assigned 3. Late to lecture often, up to 15 minutes .We took the midterm, he told everyone 10 minutes before to keep their test face down. One student walked in after this; he was berated for "lack of academic integrity" for having his test face up, when it's his job to make a cover page for his test.