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The real reason is he brought amazing donuts to the final exam ;)","source_url":"https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/812301","quality_rating":5.0,"difficulty_rating":3.0},{"observed_at":"2026-09-07 16:46:30.629179+00:00","run_id":"20260907T155543-ce3781c4","source_review_id":"UmF0aW5nLTM5MDYyODM2","source_instructor_id":"rmp:812301","instructor_name":"Dan Negrut","course_label":"ECE759","course_id":"COMPSCI/ECE/EMA/EP/ME 759","course_uid":"course_63e805b33518ff3fd8dc0a39","review_date":"2024-03-19 05:40:57 +0000 UTC","comment":"Knowledgeable and fun. Learned a lot about CUDA","source_url":"https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/812301","quality_rating":5.0,"difficulty_rating":3.0},{"observed_at":"2026-09-07 16:46:30.629179+00:00","run_id":"20260907T155543-ce3781c4","source_review_id":"UmF0aW5nLTM4NDI0ODY0","source_instructor_id":"rmp:812301","instructor_name":"Dan Negrut","course_label":"CS759","course_id":"COMPSCI/ECE/EMA/EP/ME 759","course_uid":"course_63e805b33518ff3fd8dc0a39","review_date":"2023-11-21 05:00:11 +0000 UTC","comment":"Dan is a great professor who knows a lot about parallel computing both on CPU and GPU. Lectures and homeworks are well designed; lots of room to explore parallel computing with the final project. I really liked that lecture recordings were made available as well. Great class/great professor/great guy.","source_url":"https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/812301","quality_rating":5.0,"difficulty_rating":3.0},{"observed_at":"2026-09-07 16:46:30.629179+00:00","run_id":"20260907T155543-ce3781c4","source_review_id":"UmF0aW5nLTM3MTg0NTIx","source_instructor_id":"rmp:812301","instructor_name":"Dan Negrut","course_label":"ECE759","course_id":"COMPSCI/ECE/EMA/EP/ME 759","course_uid":"course_63e805b33518ff3fd8dc0a39","review_date":"2022-12-19 03:59:11 +0000 UTC","comment":"Good guy. Delivers engaging lectures and the material is interesting too. 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His personality and teaching style is the best!","source_url":"https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/812301","quality_rating":5.0,"difficulty_rating":3.0},{"observed_at":"2026-09-07 16:46:30.629179+00:00","run_id":"20260907T155543-ce3781c4","source_review_id":"UmF0aW5nLTM0ODM0MDA2","source_instructor_id":"rmp:812301","instructor_name":"Dan Negrut","course_label":"CS759","course_id":"COMPSCI/ECE/EMA/EP/ME 759","course_uid":"course_63e805b33518ff3fd8dc0a39","review_date":"2021-05-20 21:08:39 +0000 UTC","comment":"Prof. Dan Negrut is the type of professor you want in all of your classes. Super funny guy, brings a lot of vitality to the zoom lectures. This class is one of my favorite classes at UW-Madison. The weekly programming assignments are a lot of work, but they are definitely doable.","source_url":"https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/812301","quality_rating":5.0,"difficulty_rating":4.0},{"observed_at":"2026-09-07 16:46:30.629179+00:00","run_id":"20260907T155543-ce3781c4","source_review_id":"UmF0aW5nLTMzMjgzNDg1","source_instructor_id":"rmp:812301","instructor_name":"Dan Negrut","course_label":"ME759","course_id":"COMPSCI/ECE/EMA/EP/ME 759","course_uid":"course_63e805b33518ff3fd8dc0a39","review_date":"2020-05-13 13:47:50 +0000 UTC","comment":"Awesome professor that makes your learn and work for your grade","source_url":"https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/812301","quality_rating":5.0,"difficulty_rating":4.0},{"observed_at":"2026-09-07 16:46:30.629179+00:00","run_id":"20260907T155543-ce3781c4","source_review_id":"UmF0aW5nLTI5NDkxOTU4","source_instructor_id":"rmp:812301","instructor_name":"Dan Negrut","course_label":"CS759","course_id":"COMPSCI/ECE/EMA/EP/ME 759","course_uid":"course_63e805b33518ff3fd8dc0a39","review_date":"2018-01-23 11:31:56 +0000 UTC","comment":"Great teacher! He's good at presenting the material and giving you exposure to the ideas and technologies behind HPC. He's more focused on you learning than making the class impossible. The class is a lot of work but not hard to do well in if you put in the work. Great class!","source_url":"https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/812301","quality_rating":4.0,"difficulty_rating":3.0},{"observed_at":"2026-09-07 16:46:30.629179+00:00","run_id":"20260907T155543-ce3781c4","source_review_id":"UmF0aW5nLTI5MTExMTQz","source_instructor_id":"rmp:812301","instructor_name":"Dan Negrut","course_label":"ECE759","course_id":"COMPSCI/ECE/EMA/EP/ME 759","course_uid":"course_63e805b33518ff3fd8dc0a39","review_date":"2017-12-09 18:05:23 +0000 UTC","comment":"Seems to be someone who really cares about the students. The material he presents is well made and is very good to get acquainted with High performance computing with CUDA, OpenMP and so on.","source_url":"https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/812301","quality_rating":5.0,"difficulty_rating":4.0},{"observed_at":"2026-09-07 16:46:30.629179+00:00","run_id":"20260907T155543-ce3781c4","source_review_id":"UmF0aW5nLTI1NDc4ODY0","source_instructor_id":"rmp:812301","instructor_name":"Dan Negrut","course_label":"ECE759","course_id":"COMPSCI/ECE/EMA/EP/ME 759","course_uid":"course_63e805b33518ff3fd8dc0a39","review_date":"2015-11-23 21:56:04 +0000 UTC","comment":"Lenient grader","source_url":"https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/812301","quality_rating":4.0,"difficulty_rating":1.0}]