Reviews of professor Yingjie Hu

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Horribly boring lectures. It's essentially like he's reading the textbook manual to you word for word. Pop quizzes so you don't have time to prepare. Online quizzes and exams, open note. Difficult to understand his accent. Very few grades: have to rely on getting good grades in lab to make up for lecture grades. Project due on very last day.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Hu is really knowledgeable about GIS! The course is well organized with lectures on both GIS and various types of geospatial data. Highly useful. Learned a lot from him!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great classes and very easy to understand. Not too much homework either.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is an asset of UB!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I was new to machine learning, so struggled a bit at the beginning of the semester. However, Dr. Hu was really kind and patient. He responded to all my questions and really helped me to learn. I felt much more confident working with scikit-learn, machine learning, and GIS after completing this course.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Hu was a great professor. He was clearly enthusiastic about teaching GIS, and was always willing to help any students. He made this course very interesting and engaging.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This professor is one of the best I know. His lectures were very informative with relevant demonstrations which helped me a lot to understand the discussed concepts. Overall, I had a great experience with this course and learned a lot!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Hu is so far one of my favorite professors at UB. While we only met him in person for half a semester (due to covid), you can still tell from his lecture videos that he was passionate about GIS and that he wanted every student to understand the topic. Excellent professor!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
A great instructor. Dr. Hu is very enthusiastic about GIS and you can feel his passion in his lectures. His knowledge is very up-to-date, which is critical for this technology-oriented course. He is nice and approachable and always ready to help students. The tests are hard and you have to really study for them.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Hu was one of the best professors I have had in my four years at UB. He was extremely passionate about GIS and really cared for students and their success. I really enjoyed his class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
A great professor. He is very approachable and really cares about students. Lectures are well organized. Learned a lot about GIS from him!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Hu is very knowledgeable and willing to help students. I took his GIS course last semester and really enjoyed it! I have been working on a project this semester and ran into a problem of using ArcMap. Although I was not taking any course with him this semester, he kindly helped me to solve the problem. Really appreciate it.