Reviews of professor Ramesh Nagappan

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Nagappan is a very nice guy who truly committed to make everyone learn with practical and successful. He makes cookbooks for labs and make sure everyone does it even if it is beyond their comfort level. You will come out of the class as if you are an experienced Cloud Security professional. I truly learnt a lot from his course.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is TOUGH on his students: grading and feedback. He genuinely means well, which is presumably why he grills students at times. The two quizzes are brutal: full of gotcha questions. Thankfully, they're not worth that much. Lectures are a MUST. He is extremely detail-oriented. Get your HWs and labs done ahead of time; you've been warned.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Great course on applied cryptography and identity management. It is quite fast paced but quite easy as it begins with fundamentals and then delves deeper into applied usage. The assignments and lab work are bit very time consuming for someone with no previous background in cryptography use but Ramesh and TAs helped me.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
CSCIE49 is one practical security course, needless to say lectures and lab exercises were truly outstanding. The professor and TAs were very helpful every way.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Ramesh is a caring lecturer and goes out of his way to help students. Alas, his lectures are dry, with mostly him reading slides. Tests and homework make little sense. I asked a friend who works in networking and he thought the content was out of date and sometimes inaccurate.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Ramesh is a wonderful guy at first place who is really approachable and cares for everyone success. Cryptography classes are boring if you not interested but you will enjoy it with Ramesh's fun filled class. He will sit with you next on the lab and make sure you do well with fun. Ask questions if you are confused and he will patiently answer them!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Cloud security is one of the best class I had at Harvard. The lectures were well organized and lab assignments were truly a pleasant experience and I learnt quite a lot of hands-on security skills from this course. Professors and TAs were easily accessible. Ramesh always took time for helping everyone to be successful in the class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Ramesh is a caring and well-rounded instructor who really knows what he is talking about. He is widely available outside class and is willing to work with students. His labs are very interesting and apply real-world concepts. However, his quizzes and assignments are often unclear and contain "gotcha" questions.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Ramesh is very friendly, intelligent, engaging academic experience, very caring for everyone in the class and he find every way to help you... so you gotta love this professor. He makes everything enjoyable to work on. Labs are cool and extra-credits are awesome. Definitely one of the best professors that I've ever had.