As the quarter progressed, less and less people attended his lectures, myself included. The class is basically a free A as long as you do the homeworks and final project (no final exam or midterm). His lectures, in my opinion, were uninteresting and unnecessary to attend. You can find all the content in his notes anyways

This class seemed almost too easy to be true. Decent lecturer(slow paced but very clear and detailed), has good notes. VERY forgiving grading. Dropped lowest midterm and gave extra credit on the final. Homework was pretty nice and helped to learn the material.

He is a genius. He not only provide you with new research ideas, but also builds a circuit that you can start from and guide you step-by-step on designing a microchip prototype. I was not thinking I would survive PhD - I am not very innovative and cannot bring new ideas for research. But with Salem I already have 2 papers + journal in my 2nd year.

His knowledge is very limited. He google your questions and if there is nothing in google about your question, he cannot answer your question.

Professor Salem is very knowledgeable about what he teaches. The lectures can sometimes be confusing, but once you can practice some examples yourself the topic becomes more clear. There is lots of Hw that is fairly hard and graded on accuracy, but the Hw is also harder than the exams so it is good practice.

He is very demanding and makes you work a lot. His pressure is too high that you will have extreme anxiety.