Reviews of professor Philip Thomas

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Pretty good lecturer. Generally pretty clear. Happy to answer any questions. Not willing to change anything based on feedback. Would have given 5 stars but the grading this semester was awful. The homeworks were each just a few multiple choice & true/false questions, which were expected to each take hours to answer. Grading felt almost random.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Phil is the goat, very easy and informative class and lectures

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Philip is new to the field of AI, and his inexperience shows. He constantly stumbled over his words during lecture and frequently - I mean frequently, would go off on a tangent about his own publications and would have a hard time staying on topic. He really does not like asking questions about the material. I was a little shocked at all fo this.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great professor, friendly and seems genuinely excited to be teaching. Explains the material clearly has regular office hours and will help you to understand the material if you're struggling. Also in my experience willing to be flexible about due dates if you have a good justification.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He improved a lot at teaching since 383

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I took the course in Fall 2020. Professor teaches very well and the course doesn't feel very tough with the readings and regular revision. It does require a lot of input, self-study, notation familiarity, and practice. Professor is very helpful and asking questions is greatly encouraged, which makes the topics very clear. I enjoyed the class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Philip Thomas is a professor who has a lot of potential. Although this was his first semester teaching artificial intelligence, that is no excuse for the amount of unclarity of course material that the majority of students in the class were under. His grading scale is VERY harsh, and the exams were extensively difficult and unintuitive.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Philip Thomas is truly an inspirational teacher and makes you care about the subject. His grading is fairly lenient and his homeworks needs to be well organized. But to be fair, it's only his second time teaching the subject and he's still figuring out his style.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This was his first time teaching artificial intelligence. His office hour was useful but his lectures were not. No slides, no answers for homework and midterm. Everything in his class is ambiguous. Although attendance is not mandatory, you have to go to his class because midterm and final are only related to his lectures rather than homework.