On this page:
1 Who We Are
2 Staff Calendar
3 How to Contact Us
4 What to Not Do
5 Staff Emails
6 Want Advice?

Staff

    1 Who We Are

    2 Staff Calendar

    3 How to Contact Us

    4 What to Not Do

    5 Staff Emails

    6 Want Advice?

Note: Unless indicate otherwise, all email addresses below have an @cs.brown.edu suffix.

1 Who We Are

Our pronouns, our hometowns, Ask Me Anything about…

picture of juliaHead TA
Julia McClellan
jmcclel1
she/her/hers
Carlisle, MA
running

  

picture of shriramProfessor
Shriram Krishnamurthi
sk
he/him/his
Bangalore/ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು, India
cycling/cricket

  

picture of pbiberstHead TA
Paul Biberstein
pbiberst
he/him/his
Freeport, ME
pizza making, my dog

picture of bsilvermUTA
Ben Silverman
bsilverm
he/him/his
Evanston, IL
music

  

picture of cgagnon1UTA
Charlie Gagnon
cgagnon1
he/him/his
Natick, MA
REMIX 10

  

picture of sli96UTA
Ell Li
sli96
they/them/theirs
Armonk, NY
food

picture of lchen70UTA
Jason Chen
lchen70
he/him/his
Shanghai, China
coffee

  

picture of klu13Grad TA
Kuang-Chen Lu
klu13
he/him/his/they/them/theirs
Taiwan & China
East Asian cuisine

  

picture of mheller6UTA
Max Heller
mheller6
he/him/his
Albany, NY
Rust, running

picture of drracketLanguage
DrRacket

they/them/theirs
Houston, TX
medicine

  

picture of srockhilUTA
Sarah Rockhill
srockhil
she/her/hers
Manhattan, NY
ask me about how much I love biking!

  

picture of bonnyLanguage
Bonny the Pyret

she/her/hers
Providence, RI
piracy

2 Staff Calendar

Here is a calendar that shows staff times. Please feel free to subscribe to it. It will update as schedules evolve over the semester.

3 How to Contact Us

Please see the Syllabus and Course Policies.

Unless your issue is confidential in some way, please use EdStem, not email, as your first point of contact.

If you have questions about a grade on an assignment, please use the regrade feature of Gradescope. If you are still not satisfied, you can escalate your complaint.

4 What to Not Do

Excluding confidential issues, please do not write to individual course staff unless they have asked you to do so; if you write a course staff member directly, they will ignore your message. All course staff have an existence outside the context of this course, and their time when they aren’t working as a TA is their own. Instead, always follow the instructions above. This will not only get you the next available person on duty, it will also get you quicker responses.

When replying to email, always group-reply (a.k.a., “reply all”) unless you have a good reason not to. Otherwise people lose context, worry that you haven’t responded, etc., etc.

5 Staff Emails

Who

  

Address

  

When

All course staff (UTAs, HTAs, professor)

  

cs1730tas@lists.brown.edu

  

By default

HTAs and professor only, no UTAs

  

cs1730headtas@lists.brown.edu

  

If you don't want the UTAs to see your message

Professor only

  

sk

  

If you don't want even the HTAs to see your message

6 Want Advice?

If you have a question unrelated to the course and just want one of the staff’s advice, do ask us. We’re friendly and eager to answer questions though, of course, we cannot commit to responding to emails not related to the course in a timely manner.