On this page:
12.1 Who We Are
12.2 Hours
12.3 Labs
12.4 How to Contact Us
12.5 What to Not Do
12.6 Want Advice?

12 Staff and Contact

    12.1 Who We Are

    12.2 Hours

    12.3 Labs

    12.4 How to Contact Us

    12.5 What to Not Do

    12.6 Want Advice?

Note: All email addresses below have an @cs.brown.edu suffix.

12.1 Who We Are

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Professor

  

Shriram Krishnamurthi

  

sk

Head TAs

  

Zachary Espiritu

  

zespirit

  

Noah Fang

  

nfang

  

Jacob Leiken

  

jleiken

UTAs

  

Mary Dong

  

mdong5

  

Mira Gordin

  

mgordin

  

Madeline Griswold

  

mgriswol

  

Lawrence Huang

  

lhuang21

  

Michael Litt

  

mlitt2

  

Kristen Mashikian

  

kmashiki

  

Julia McClellan

  

jmcclel1

  

Mia Santomauro

  

msantoma

  

Zak Wegweiser

  

zwegweis

12.2 Hours

Before you see a TA, please fill out this form. It’s designed to help you structure your thoughts so you can go in more focused and get better help. Fill it out each time you go to meet a TA, even if that’s multiple times in the same session.

Day

  

When

  

Where

  

Who

Sunday

  

4-6pm

  

CIT 201

  

zespirit

Sunday

  

6-8pm

  

CIT 201

  

nfang

Sunday

  

6-8pm

  

CIT 201

  

jmcclel1

Monday

  

9-11pm

  

CIT 201

  

zwegweis

Tuesday

  

4-6pm

  

CIT 201

  

msantoma

Tuesday

  

6-8pm

  

CIT 201

  

jleiken

Wednesday

  

8-10pm

  

CIT 201

  

mlitt2

Thursday

  

5-7pm

  

CIT 201

  

kmashiki

Friday

  

3-5pm

  

CIT 203

  

mdong5

Saturday

  

2-4pm

  

CIT 205

  

mgordin

Saturday

  

4-6pm

  

CIT 205

  

mgriswol

Saturday

  

4-6pm

  

CIT 205

  

lhuang21

For Shriram’s hours, see his calendar page.

12.3 Labs

Day

  

When

  

Where

  

Who

Monday

  

3-5pm

  

CIT 201

  

zespirit, mgriswol, mdong5

Monday

  

8-10pm

  

CIT 201

  

nfang, jmcclel1, mlitt2

Wednesday

  

4-6pm

  

CIT 167

  

mgordin, jleiken, msantoma

Wednesday

  

7-9pm

  

CIT 201

  

kmashiki, zwegweis, lhuang21

12.4 How to Contact Us

Please register on our Piazza site:
Any question you post there is private by default, i.e., it will only be seen by course staff (including the professor). Therefore, you can freely ask questions without worrying about violations of course collaboration policy.

Note: This is a new Piazza site, not the one used for summer placement discussion.

Unless your issue is confidential in some way, please use Piazza, not email, as your first point of contact.

If you have questions about a grade on an assignment, first come to the hours of the TA who graded you. If you are still not satisfied, you can escalate your complaint.

If you have a sensitive issue that you don’t want the TAs to see, write to cs0190headtas@lists.brown.edu. This goes only to the Head TA and the professors.

If you have an issue that you don’t want even the Head TA to see, you can always write directly to the professors.

12.5 What to Not Do

Excluding confidential issues, please do not write to individual course staff unless they have asked you to do so; if you write a course staff member directly, they will ignore your message. All course staff have an existence outside the context of this course, and their time when they aren’t working as a TA is their own. Instead, always post to Piazza. This will not only get you the next available person on duty, it will also get you quicker responses.

When replying to email, always group-reply (a.k.a., “reply all”) unless you have a good reason not to.

12.6 Want Advice?

If you have a question unrelated to the course and just want one of the staff’s advice, do ask us. We’re friendly and eager to answer questions though, of course, we cannot commit to responding to emails not related to the course in a timely manner.