Reviews of professor Payman Vafaee

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is the best in the department. Knowledgeble, engaging and caring!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
There's a weekly assignment where you have to do heavy reading and write a paper to answer questions about the reading. At least 5 pages for each weekly paper. Very stressful and unnecessary. If not mandatory, avoid!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Nice guy but poor teaching. Wall-of-sound lectures lacking coherence or scaffolding. Unnecessarily dense homework assignments. Never graded or returned a single assignment all term, including final paper. Frequently tells students "you're wrong" and smiles smugly while they ask questions. A consistently frustrating experience.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you are a statistics person, you would like this course. Otherwise, it's lecture heavy, too much work, tests, and presentations.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Vafaee is an excellent professor. He has high expectations of his students and he'll help you get there if he can see the effort being put in. If you really try, ask questions and are engaged in his lectures, you're going to learn a lot. Yes he's long winded, and he assigns a LOT of readings and homework, but it's doable.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Two of my toughest courses in grad school is taught by payman. If you don't like writing papers, AVOID!!!!