Brilliant professor in the field of Artificial Intelligence, but just a horrible lecturer.

Bad lecturer, but okay Professor

Honestly one of the worst professors I've ever had in the CS department. Horrible lectures that are impossible to follow, a complete lack of material and slides that are either full of grammatical errors or are just screen captures from the book. You learn more in a 5 minute youtube video on the topic than you do from attending her lectures.

Horrible. Her lecture slides are 95% equations with little explanation. Hard to follow along in class.

She has deep knowledge of the class's subject area but she is new to teaching at UB and her first iteration of CSE 474 had significant problems. While she tries to provide some background in her lectures it only made me more confused. I spent most of my time sifting through textbooks to finish homeworks and didn't know what to study for the exams.

Worst professor in the CSE department. Struggles to teach in an effective manner. AVOID AT ALL COSTS

She is not really the best choice for ML if you want to learn the material since she primarily focuses on the Graduate level and has an assumption that you have some previous knowledge of anything taught in class. Her lecture notes are useless on their own as they are very minimal with little explanation and lectures are her just reading them.

Rude and not accessible to students. Not helpful with extra questions. Overall a poor professor in all areas.

Day 1 you are just bombarded with random formulas from the book without any context. You lose interest by week 2. Getting B or above in this class is easy as all of the exams are just excerpts from homeworks and quizzes. Just a lot of filler work Feels bad when a 10$ udemy course is more organized and engaging than a 1.5k university course

Worst Professor ever in my whole life.

Sometimes rude and doesn't feel like she understands how hard we as a student.

For reference I have a 3.8GPA as a senior CS major. First time I felt dumb to the point where I just tried to pass the class. For most of the lectures, she talks about mathematical equations and only briefly explains concepts. She has a pretty thick Indian accent so I spent most of class deciphering what she said. Smart prof, horrible teaching.

I saw some of the 5 star reviews on here and decided to take this class. Huge mistake. Lecture is just slideshows filled with equations with no explanations. When attempting a Homework question you will not be able to find anything like it in the slides or the textbook. This is the class I regret taking the most in my entire college career.

Words cannot do justice to how horrible her lectures are a high school student can construct better lecture with coherence, the presentation is straight up images from textbooks, will blabber equation without any context, you will not find any value in her lectures. Not to forget extremely arrogant and irrational. Avoid at all costs.

Lectures are dry & unhelpful. The class is heavily math based which is good for ML but she is awful at explaining the content. The majority of students just self teach instead of going to lecture. She is rude when answering questions. Knowledgeable, but does not understand students in general. Confusing assignments which don't offer any guidance.

Disorganized Chaos. A difficult and inarticulate Professor and the TAs are impossible as well. Claims a structure and decided to grade and curve two sections at will, very misleading. Lectures are some of the poorest I've ever taken, exams are extremely challenging and the grading again is shambles. Overall, beware, never take this professor.

I have a BS in Computer Science and with all the knowledge of ML, following her classes was impossible. She has a very bad attitude with students in general who are seeking assistance and labels them as "outliers". The worst professor I've taken a course under. Please STAY AWAY, pick another professor or take it another semester if none available.

Extremely disorganized, she seems to hate being a professor from classroom experience, follows the same grading for graduate and undergraduates and is EXTREMELY unhelpful outside of class. Follows absolute grading for a CS course which is a recipe for disaster. Exams were difficult in where short (long) answer questions consist of 90% of the grade.

She never teaches programming Assignment in class or office hour, but she expects every student to learn it by themselves. There are more than 30 short answers in the Final. There is no curve! Don't be late because she will shout "Get out! "And throw you out. Bad accent. There will be quiz, writing Assignment and Programming Assignment every week.

Very bad for CSE 474. No ANY curve for Undergraduate. If you do not have strong math background, do not choose this course. Her accent confuses most of us non-Indians. Choose another AI course for your GPA

In all my four years of undergrad, I have never encountered a professor as bad as her. She is extremely rude and condescending to students, will yell at you and kick you out of class if you are a few minutes late. The lectures are extremely confusing and convoluted so you'll have no idea how to do any of the assignments. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!

Absolutely awful! If you're thinking of taking this class because you want to learn SQL, just watch some YouTube videos instead. We spent only a few weeks learning SQL, most of the class was just absurdly difficult nonsense you will never use in the real world. She is also extremely unprofessional and gives absurdly difficult exams/assignments.

Please do not take this professor. Course-wise, she tends to stick to the textbook and most of her HW and quiz questions can be found on that. But as a teacher, she can be very rude and arrogant. She never gives a straight answer to any student's questions and concerns. If you are taking CSE 460/560 with her, be ready to work hard. Good Luck!

This class's material is made most severely uninteresting by her. Yes, there is a lot of math. That's fine. But there are no examples. The lecture slides are a direct copy of the textbook so when she tells you to read the textbook, it means the same thing as looking at her slides which doesn't help at all. Her answers are vague and unhelpful.

She was very rude to her students, as if she felt superior to others, and would not answer any of the student's questions. She would yell at anyone who disobeyed her. Going to the lectures is just like reading a textbook by myself. If you like to learn SQL well, it is better to find some resources online than waste time with her here.

How bad the professors make me wonder if the college has any serious screening of teachers.

If you have another choice, do NOT take her course. You could have written homework, programming assignment, quizzes and even exam due in the very same day. Course load is super heavy, and for homework and programming assignment, she does not give a clear instruction at all, you need to do a lot of study outside the class

She is a awful professor, who didn't respect her students at all. If a student comes in late, she just told TA to let the student go back, and she will call on students who is not listen to her, and blame that student.

Prof. Sreyasee is probably one of the WORST professors you could ever come across. When I was coming to UB, a lot of my seniors had warned me against taking her course. But I still went ahead as I was of the opinion that I want to study SQL given my non-cs background. (1/n)

All throughout the semester I have been crying over my decision & thinking that I should have instead listened to them. If you are late by more than 10 min in her class, you aren't allowed to sit there. Her teaching style is horrible. The end-sem examination which ideally should have comprised 7 chapters had questions only from 2 chapters. (2/n)

Her question paper and assignment questions are such that none of her TAs would ever be able to solve them but would still go ahead and give you AI violations for apparently SIMILAR SQL QUERIES. Her grading scheme had marks in the division of 2 points which is the worst any professor can ever do. (3/n)

She thinks so highly of herself that even if you go and ask her any doubt, she wouldn't pay attention to it. Her TAs are the worst, just like her tbh. I could go on and on with this rant but my only SUGGESTION to someone thinking of taking this course is PLEASE DON'T. Save yourself from this misery.

Absolutely awful. She literally does not treat students as human beings. Not exaggerating. Her behavior is unacceptable for her position. Does not matter what the class or its content is, because she is the problem no matter what. Avoid her for ANY class. If it happens that you aren't human, you'll still have to deal with her unprofessionalism.

Never has a professor made me second question my choices like she did. Throughout her course my anxiety was skyrocketing and her condescending behavior stripped my self esteem away. A teacher like her can sure leave an impact on you for all the wrong reasons and my course grade was such a big cost to pay for this bad choice.

Lectures are dry, yet participation is compulsory by graded class activities. Disrespects her students, threatening to remove them from class for being late. HW & exams are tough compared to the teaching standard. HW & exams focused on tricking you with the technicalities of the material rather than testing your knowledge of the material itself.

Just awful . Taking her class would be the last thing any sane human will venture.

Time was spent mostly on either deriving basic statistical equations like variance, or MLE. Did not cover all the concepts. Her attitude towards students is negative, and derisive. Expects us to take exams on laptop, but wouldn't allow one to take notes on during the lectures. One of my worst experiences as a student. She's gotta do a lot better.

unrealistic ratings here;poor teaching style;challenging for beginners;quiz questions lack creativity;attendance strict;10min late means leave;will yell at you for speaking in class;abysmal slides;will try to scribble with mouse;no graded rubrics for exams;cancels classes but expects students to show up;prof is approachable for doubt clarification.

The worst teacher in my 2 years at UB. She treats her students very rudely, and shoos them out of her class if they are even slightly late. She does not allow using a laptop in a course for Machine Learning! Her explanations of the course content are severely lacking. She does not answer questions, but laughs and taunts students for asking them.

I would not recommend this instructor. The content is outdated. Yes, not all assignments and homework have to be up-to-date, but I don't think there is even 1. On top of that, there is a lot of useless derivations to be studied and the test is even harder. Unless you really find Machine Learning fascinating, I would not recommend this professor!

I do not remember a single thing that was taught in the class. Talk about useless classes and this would top the list!

The professor's teaching skills are abysmal. Her lectures lack coherence and fail to convey any meaningful understanding of the subject matter. The assignments feel like recycled content from the textbook, offering no opportunity genuine learning.I strongly advise against enrolling in any of her classes. Save yourself the disappointment.

she is the worst ONG frfr no cap

Her classes are useless, she gives completely unrelated question in her exams and just wants to give students a hard time doesn't really care what you learn.

You can listen to this professor for an hour and still get nothing out of it. Assessments are mostly adapted from other university ML courses. Worst of all, she doesn't correct her mistakes, it's better not learn than mislearn.

A big nono. Outdated concepts taught, and i had to go through youtube to understand. Her accent makes it even worse. The class is a big mess

The worst of the worst , there are other cse 560 dmql teachers, go with any of them unless you want to get frighteningly low marks for no reason and spoil your gpa while others get good grades for same effort

ITS A DISASTER, NEITHER CAN SHE EXPLAIN WELL, NOR DOES SHE GRADE WELL, UTTER WASTE OF TIME. IDK WHY UB KEEPS PROFS LIKE THIS WHEN 70% OF THE CLASS IS DISSATISFIED

never again, rude and not useful at all !! teaches so so so bad

Asks questions which she never teaches. her notes are spin off of text books. very boring. big thumbs down

She taught very badly, gave difficult final exam. didn't curve grades at all. Zero bonus, if you take her again beware of all this. If you want to affect your gpa then its fine go ahead take her.

Professor gave 0 bonus, also she didnt give any 5% extra she promised for filling out course evaluations, the TA s cut marks any way possible, NO ONE got A. Only 6 people got A-. Several got D.

Sorry to say this but just because some one is a prodigy doesn't mean everyone is

Professor is hungry for reviews, doesn't give marks if 80% people don't provide feedback , even if people fail. So 1) her teaching is beyond bad 2) her exams are extra tough 3) her rudeness is sky high 4) her not teaching any practical coding skills and expecting students to be google ready 5) her skipping classes but expecting students to come

Bruh, this prof just vibes wrong. Lectures are like bedtime stories. Zero clarity, zero chill. Might as well self-teach. Do better

None as worse as her

Hard to approach. Very little teaching. More than 60% of students that took her class hates to be in her class. But few seemed to like her.

It was compulsory to take her class, but one of the worst professors at UB that I have had so far.

Pointless lectures, with shit ton of class activities. Disrespects students and also her teaching staff. At the point she should just retire and stay at home.

She is an assistant teaching professor; she should be focusing on teaching and designing course materials, not doing freaking research. Her course is absolutely dog water. So bad ...

Lectures and teaching materials are terrible. She doesn't know how to explain concepts clearly; you'll zone out in less than 10 mins. And there are marks for attendance. She was very rude and didn't even let us see our final exam papers. It's all about how well you can tolerate her rather than course understanding. Poor grading, worst professor!