I rebuke this professor man!

Literally so disorganized and no clear syllabus. While math is usually a strong area for me, I would sit in his lectures and not understand a single thing. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS unless you know how to learn on ur own

To be honest I hated the guy until the final. Lectures primarily consisted of him waffling and you were better off reading the textbook. They were funny though. I got a D- on the midterm (which he curved to a C-). Then he gave an extremely easy final worth 50% of the course grade and I ended up with an A after the final curve. Peak cinema. 10/10

Horribly disorganized, bad handwriting, weird tangents, constantly corrects himself so you have to rewrite notes, and switches between going too slow and too fast. His phone went off 20 times during the final exam and he did not silence it. If you are forced to take a class with him, grading is reasonable and you do get a cheat sheet on exams.

Horrible at teaching, the tests did not reflect what he taught in class.

zero structure in lecture or section. almost no communication with students or TAs. 20+ questions of hw each week that are nothing like the exam. no information on dates/how many midterms until 1 week before. no study materials. luckily, TAs are very nice and give a lot of partial credit, which is the only reason this class was passable.

He knows a lot about math but just really is impossible to learn from. He has the sloppiest handwriting I have ever seen from a teacher or professor. I learned everything from CLAS. With that said the tests were grade rather generously so it isn't too difficult to do well if you spend time outside of lecture learning.

Rick Ye makes sure you have no idea what's going on in this class. I could not understand him or read his handwriting, not that it would've helped since his lectures are all over the place. No practice tests were provided for midterm/final. HIGHLY recommend to wait a quarter and take it with another professor. TAs very unhelpful and final is 53%...

run. keep running.

The professor may be good at research, but his teaching is VERY POOR. Lectures are hard to follow, and the notes are unclear. It feels like there's little coordination with the TAs. Overall, it's very difficult to learn in this class due to the way the material is presented.

horrible, please never take.

Can barely read what he is writing, and doesn't teach in a manner that someone who has no clue what is going on could understand. Changes due dates all the time so nothing is really ever set in stone, you get only a weeks notice for the midterm, and the syllabus is never set in stone. Overall a terrible professor, don't take him.