Reviews of professor Shuyang Ling

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Good professor and good lectures. Taught useful and important concepts related to the field of machine learning. If you think his lecture has too much stuffs, then you might be not suitable for this field.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Solid structure with great lectures notes. A little hard to understand but always available to answer questions. Not a hard class if you do the homework.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Please only take Professor Ling if he really is your last resort. The homework is completely out of tune with his lectures, so are his exams. Whatever he gives you to prepare for the exams (practices, lectures, homework, quizzes, online assignments), be prepared to face material you either never seen before, or are only covered briefly.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Ling is very kind and smart. If you have some problems, he is always there to help u. I hope more and more students in NYU Shanghai can get in touch with this respectable professors.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I feel depressed while taking his class. Probably will as well after taking it for a long time. Attemps to cover too much materials. Homework is not an extension of lectures. Rather it's turning over a new page (literally you have to read up extra new stuff)

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Real really tough grader. Many of my friends in the class feel depressed after his tests. The levels of difficulty of his quizzes and tests are inconsistent.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I have to say, if you have any other choices, Ling is your last choice. You can learn math from lecture and homework, but you will find out what in the exam is total in another difficulty level. The test can expand your imagination, which will definitely shock you and ruin your GPA. The exam is totally unrelatable to the test, homework, and lecture

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He's really smart, genuinely cares about helping students, and willing to spend time with someone struggling. If you have a weak foundation in math, don't take him. He covers a LOT of material and goes over abstract theories and expects YOU to learn how to apply them. First half of semester is deceptively easy. Huge variety of difficulty on exams.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Well-structured lectures and often holds review sessions

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He really knows his thing, so whenever there's something you don't understand, go to the office hour(which is quite long) and eventually you'll figure it out.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Very good at explaining concepts. HW a bit heavy but very helpful in exploring the materials. Exams are okay.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Hard lectures. The speed (though is a graduate course) is incredibly fast and skips lots of contents in the slides and so that I can barely understand. Covering many materials not on the book and is on homework, making homework even harder. Nice person, terrible lectures.