On this page:
1 Who We Are
2 Staff Calendar
3 How to Contact Us
4 What to Not Do
5 Staff Emails
6 Want Advice?

Staff

    1 Who We Are

    2 Staff Calendar

    3 How to Contact Us

    4 What to Not Do

    5 Staff Emails

    6 Want Advice?

Note: Unless indicate otherwise, all email addresses below have an @cs.brown.edu suffix.

1 Who We Are

Our pronouns, our hometowns, Ask Me Anything about…

picture of pbiberstHead TA
Paul Biberstein
pbiberst
he/him/his
Freeport, ME
providence desserts, board games, pizza making

  

picture of shriramProfessor
Shriram Krishnamurthi
sk
he/him/his
Bangalore/ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು, India
cycling, cricket

  

picture of jchen345Head TA
Jiahua Chen
jchen345
he/him/his
Hong Kong & Shanghai, China
photography, design, my thoughts on transit infrastructure

picture of hchung21UTA
Ashley Chung
hchung21
she/her/hers
West Hartford, CT
indie game development

  

picture of bgoff1UTA
Ben Goff
bgoff1
he/him/his/they/them/theirs
St. Louis, MO
taekwondo at brown!

  

picture of imodyUTA
Isha Mody
imody
she/her/hers
Mumbai, India
tie-dye, Baby Keem

picture of lzhu17UTA
Livia Zhu
lzhu17
she/her/hers
Seatte, WA
Shanghai, China

crafting, musicals

  

picture of cpak4UTA
Ocean Pak
cpak4
he/him/his
Hong Kong
cantopop, hichew

  

picture of sanand13UTA
Sidharth Anand
sanand13
he/him/his
Seattle, WA
pizza-making, geography, singing

picture of drracketLanguage
DrRacket

they/them/theirs
Houston, TX
medicine

  

picture of klu13Grad TA
Kuang-Chen Lu
klu13

Taiwan & Mainland China
East Asian cuisine

  

picture of bonnyLanguage
Bonny the Pyret

she/her/hers
Providence, RI
piracy

2 Staff Calendar

Here is a calendar that shows staff times. Please feel free to subscribe to it. It will update as schedules evolve over the semester.

3 How to Contact Us

Please see the Syllabus and Course Policies.

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

If you have questions about a grade on an assignment, please use the regrade feature of Gradescope. If you are still not satisfied, you can escalate your complaint.

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 follow the instructions above. 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. Otherwise people lose context, worry that you haven’t responded, etc., etc.

5 Staff Emails

Who

  

Address

  

When

All course staff (UTAs, HTAs, professor)

  

cs1730tas@lists.brown.edu

  

By default

HTAs and professor only, no UTAs

  

cs1730headtas@lists.brown.edu

  

If you don't want the UTAs to see your message

Professor only

  

sk

  

If you don't want even the HTAs to see your message

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.