On this page:
9.1 Who We Are
9.2 Hours
9.3 How to Contact Us
9.4 What to Not Do
9.5 Want Advice?

9 Staff and Contact

    9.1 Who We Are

    9.2 Hours

    9.3 How to Contact Us

    9.4 What to Not Do

    9.5 Want Advice?

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

9.1 Who We Are

Professor

  

Shriram Krishnamurthi

  

sk

Grad TA

  

Justin Pombrio

  

justinpombrio

Head TA

  

Anjali Pal

  

ajpal

UTA

  

Sahakait Benyasut

  

sbenyasu

  

Sara Hartse

  

shartse

  

William Kochanski

  

wk

  

Alex St. Laurent

  

awstlaur

9.2 Hours

Day

  

When

  

Where

  

Who

Monday

  

12:30-1:30

  

CIT 377

  

sk

Monday

  

3-4pm

  

CIT 201

  

sbenyasu

Tuesday

  

1-4pm

  

CIT 201

  

justinpombrio

Wednesday

  

12-1pm

  

CIT 201

  

ajpal

Wednesday

  

3-5pm

  

CIT 201

  

wk

Thursday

  

12-1pm

  

CIT 201

  

wk

Thursday

  

6-8pm

  

CIT 201

  

sbenyasu

Friday

  

12-2pm

  

CIT 201

  

ajpal

Friday

  

2-4pm

  

CIT 201

  

shartse

Sunday

  

3-4pm

  

CIT 201

  

shartse

9.3 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.

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 feel your issue is confidential and you do not wish to reveal it even to the entire course staff, please write as follows:

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 the professor.

9.4 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.

9.5 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.