Terrible. Took 7-week Big Ideas in AI course. People constantly begged for our quiz results. He tells us to go ask someone else. The quizzes are insanely specific and hard. There is absolutely no guidance on your grade--no one knows anything. He and the TA's never respond to emails and when they do it's to ask us not to talk to them.

DO NOT TAKE. Lectures are on NYU Stream. Q&A sessions mandatory. Grading criteria vague. YET, they threatened to fail half the class week 2. Weekly quizzes are awful, in difficulty and in specificity. When begged for quiz feedback, they lie to us. Alf passes blame off. Hes created a digital hierarchy among students. A harrowing experience.

Very unorganized class. Class has gotten to the last week and students still have 0 feedback regarding their standings (quiz grades, attendance grades, disc post grades). Quizzes are unnecessarily technical and difficult for a P/F 2 credit class. When students ask questions regarding their grades they get morally attacked by Prof/TAs. DO NOT TAKE!

Don't take this Big Ideas course! The instructor provides 0 feedback on quizzes, despite promising to return grades all the time. He interrupts the guest lectures who are actually interesting, and doesn't allow students to speak in the Q&A sessions unless he needs clarification. Waste of 2 credits.

Awful prof. In nyu I faced.

Not respect student.

Worst class I have taken in NYU. The homework and group project are unlinked with class material.

Agree with the guy below. His slides and descriptions are weird and not informative enough, neglecting the principle behind each terminology, which is not helpful for learning, and he is even proud of his slides.

Professor Canziani is pretty far from a good instructor. He was very slow to answer questions on CampusWire, his lectures were unclear, and he skimmed over the tough stuff, which left us struggling with the coding assignments.

Just a Joker

Let's just admit that he is beyond terrible, confusing lectures + hard lab + never answers campuswire questions in time, he literally ruins the AI course experience which was quite good when it was instructed by Ernest in the first half of the semester.

Strangest Professor in DS department. He knows things but not a good lecturer and assignment-maker. Ernie did a much better job in the first half. Alf made assignments unclear so students, with years of AI research, couldn't understand what he was up to and he answered questions with something unhelpful that we already knew and considered.

Not able to teach, but He is full of confidence in himself

So bad at teaching difficult concepts. Homework is awfully worded with unclear instructions & buggy code. He disappears right before our assignment due and now even the final exam. Campuswire is full of unanswered questions about final/homework but he's been missing the entire time.

Unclear lecture slides & assignments, not accessible, confusing lectures. Really enjoyed the first half of the course with Davis, but went downhill with Canziani. Still haven't received any grades from the second half of the course & the final is tomorrow.

Dove sei?

What can I say? Mamba out!

I don't even know how to start describing how awful he is. If you choose dancing and tweeting over answering our questions before the final exam, maybe teaching is just not the best job for you. The exam questions are worded so atrociously vague and confusing that I began to question whether we are even speaking the same language. Unbelievably bad.

Not that helpful

He needs to learn how to speak English first before giving us assignments or exam questions.

Hey Alf, try something else than teaching!

A lot of people are being disrespectful, but I understand why, we are all frustrated by his responsiveness out of class, and I thought his lectures/slides weren't good from the beginning. I think he's friendly and easy to approach but will probably never reply on campuswire, and ends up giving impossible questions without teaching the material.

WORST NIGHTMARE. Unable to explain anything. Buggy programming assignments templates. Zero feedback. Never answer students' questions. Take him if you also want to have such a fun experience.

I don't know how to learn in this course. Bad organization for slides, errors in assignments, talk badly over slides and giving very vague guidance for learning the material. Avoid.

Bro thinks he gets more views on Zoom than Twitch. Go back to Twitch my guy :((

Bro should stick to anything but teaching lectures especially in AI. Even the AI will not be able to understand him. Jovial guy but hard understand ANYTHING he teaches.....

I kind of understand why he didn't pose assignment solutions before final. Turns out his final basically has nothing todo with his assignments. There is a list of questions that turns out to be exteremely important, but there are only questions, not answers nor examples.

impossible

Dear Alf, enjoy the joint complaint from us to the department :))

Wrote a confusing, poorly worded, unclear final exam and released none of the grades of assignments pertaining to the second half of the course (the majority of the final content) until after the final. Created a campuswire and had very few to no professor or TA answers to student questions. Not bad at explaining content in class though.

He's a nice guy, but a poor teacher. His explanations were winding and hard to follow, and he expects a level of understanding that is not even close to taught in lecture. It's like he's dumbing things down to the undergrad level but then expecting the graduate level of understanding despite not teaching it.

Waste tuition

choose him if you want to regret in the future

Active on twitter and everything else but on campuswire or emails where students are begging him to answer questions. If you care about being a social media influencer more than a teacher, just go get a different job outside academia. NYU simply needs to stop hiring people who consider the professor job as a shortcut to becoming a popular YouTuber.

Worst professor ever. Very condescending, refuses to answer even simple questions, cares more about social media fame than actually teaching. Treats class like a Youtube stream instead of actually teaching, refuses to help and instead blames students for asking the questions. Acts as if he does everything right even with students begging for help

Alf is a good professor. It lets students experience the cruelty and absurdity of reality and raises their awareness of fraud so that they are better prepared for life.

THE WORST!!

special shoutout for making us write 15 gradient descents on the final. What a deeply enriching question! I now feel as capable as an 8-core processor, overheated and questioning my life choices.

I still cannot process the fact that there even exists a professor on this planet who didn't reply to any of the students' questions about the final exam until the second day after the exam. He also did so with such a condescending tone and a grammar mistake saying "there are only a finite number of minutes in a day" with no sign of apologizing.

I firmly believe that Professor Canziani should be dismissed immediately. It seems that the department is unaware of his conduct in class, or they would have taken action already. His behavior is highly inappropriate; he is irresponsible, dishonest, condescending, and aggressive. Someone gotta let the department know what we have experienced.

He is the AI system that Ernest created to teach students but unfournately doesn't work.

Who answers questions about the final exam 24 hours after the exam is finished? Canziani does! With such a dismissive tone he even blamed students begging him to address our inquiries before the exam. Lecture covers 5% of what's needed for homework. Basically expecting you to build a rocket after he taught you Newton's Laws, and it was bad teaching

Tough grader and gives difficult assignments without explaining the material for the assignments.

Hey man, find another job.

Thank you for ruining my final week's schedule

The previous comment has made me doubt myself for a second that I wasn't grateful enough, but sorry, I'm not gonna take take the last-minute bonus on extra work two days before the semester ends. Students should not have to "camp outside" their professor's office to get all the necessary information they need to do well, if that's even possible.

Ah, now it all makes sense why Alf gets to do whatever he pleases before the final. Because there's always a line of people ready to shower him with gratitude the moment he tosses them a tiny scrap of kindness, right?

Disgusting sauce!!!

Bro, he is so confusing. You have to take him with the another professor but just decide ur pros and cons cause he is not it. Good Luck! But like how did the whole class fail the final (which he taught) and everyone passed the midterms with flying colors (which Davis taught), its just not making any sense.

Not worth

How can anyone call a professor who ignores all forum questions and emails until after the final exam great? Preferring an irresponsible professor is a personal choice, but plz don't mislead students who genuinely want to learn. Someone claimed we had a month for the assignment, but 85% of the material was taught less than a week before it was due.

Worst prof possible. Never take under ANY circumstances

Alf might be a good prof for phD and experienced researchers but he is terrible prof for students with limited background in ML. He insults students and constantly act like he is smarter than everyone in the room including Yann Lecun. Most shockingly, I never seen a professor sending an email begging students to give him good RMP ratings lol

Alf stop buying water army that uses the same language in every single new comment with a constant high rating of 5, and stop downvoting every negative comment. Just so fake. If you don't understand why there's so much hate directed towards you, then read the comments carefully, retrospect and try to become a (much!) better instructor and person.

Trust me, he is the worst

Avoid taking a class with Canziani at all costs!!! Despite putting in a lot of effort he is a horrible teacher and lecturer. His "simplified" notation and visuals makes it impossible to follow. Almost impossible to link what he is saying to other reference material. I like LeCun's approach to DL, but Canziani will not help you understand it.

Bro seriously needs to fix the broken coding template in these assignments. Did you just let some outdated LLM spit out the whole thing and never bother to test it? There are countless ways to specify a python environment yet Alfredo somehow managed to ignore every single one and dump a mess of untested code on the students to figure out.

Fun fact, Alfredo has the lowest rating on RMP among all teaching professors in NYU's Math, Data Science, and Computer Science departments. After taking his course, I'd say it's well deserved.