CSCI 1730 · Fall 2026
Staff
Note: All email addresses below have an @brown.edu suffix.
1 Who We Are
Our Brown email addresses, our pronouns, our hometowns, Ask Me Anything about…
Shriram Krishnamurthi
Professor
- shriram
- Pronouns
- he / they
- Hometown
- Bangalore/ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು, India
- AMA
- cycling, cricket
Aaron Lestz
HTA
- aaron_lestz
- Pronouns
- he
- Hometown
- Armonk, NY
- AMA
- Theatre, Jazz, Hollow Knight
Bilal Ali
UTA
- bilal_ali
- Pronouns
- he
- Hometown
- Issaquah, WA
- AMA
- Soccer, DJing, Star Wars
Maxwell Adorsoo
UTA
- maxwell_adorsoo
- Pronouns
- he
- Hometown
- Aflao, Ghana
- AMA
- anything you think I should/will know
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 Contacting Us
3.1 How to Contact Us
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.
3.2 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. Using EdStem 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.
3.3 Staff Emails
If you have something you really don’t want to put on EdStem, you can send it to us by email as follows:
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 |
| shriram@brown.edu |
| If you don't want even the HTAs to see your message |
3.4 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.