On this page:
5.1 Who We Are
5.2 Hours
5.3 How to Contact Us
5.4 How We Reply
5.5 What to Not Do
5.6 Want Advice?

5 Staff

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

5.1 Who We Are

Professor

  

Shriram Krishnamurthi

  

sk

Grad TA (1730)

  

Justin Pombrio

  

justinpombrio

Grad TA (1729)

  

Joe Politz

  

joe

Head TA

  

Kenny Micklas

  

kmicklas

UTAs

  

Charles Harrison

  

csharris

  

Jessica Liang

  

jsl15

5.2 Hours

Day

  

When

  

Where

  

Who

Monday

  

1:15-2:15pm

  

Fishbowl

  

sk

Tuesday

  

9-11pm

  

CIT 201

  

kmicklas

Wednesday

  

6:30-8:30pm

  

CIT 201

  

justinpombrio

Thursday

  

8-10pm

  

CIT 201

  

jsl15

Sunday

  

5-7pm

  

CIT 201

  

csharris

5.3 How to Contact Us

cs173tas:

In general, please always send email to the entire course staff by writing to cs173tas. This goes to all the TAs, the Head TA, and the Professor.

cs173headtas:

If you have a sensitive issue that you don’t want the TAs to see, write to cs173headtas. This goes only to the Head TA and the Professor.

Shriram:

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

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.

5.4 How We Reply

If you ask us a course question, we may think your question is of general interest. If so, we will reply to the mailing list; otherwise, we’ll reply to you directly. When we reply to the group, we will attribute the question to you if and only if we think you should get credit for it. This makes it easy for you to ask “dumb” questions (which you should ask, because you’re almost certainly not the only person who has that question in mind).

5.5 What to Not Do

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 write to the TA lists. This will not only get you the next available person on duty, it will also get you quicker responses.

When replying, always group-reply (a.k.a., “reply all”). That is, make sure your reply goes to the TA list, not only to the TA who replied. (This is a special case of the previous paragraph.)

5.6 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.