Current instructor

Akarsh Prabhakara

Adjusted rating
RMP difficulty
captured reviews
About this rating

Raw average: 3.00/5 from 2 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

RMP profile ↗ · All captured review dates; profile matched by name.

What students say

Original student reviews · all captured dates

COMPSCI 640
Quality 1/5Difficulty 5/5
Very hard to follow his logic cause he want to cover too much things even math and physical signal transformation in computer networks... But he even didn't record his lecture for us to review more convenient. His slides are also chaotic from one thing to another irrelevant thing.
Rate My Professors ↗

Personal experiences, not a representative survey. Profile matching and captured coverage are shown in the source details.

Classes with Akarsh Prabhakara

COMPSCI 839

Core Topics in Computing

3 credits

This graduate course covers topics selected from advanced areas of computing.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=16 letter grades).

Yuhang ZhaoAws Albarghouthi+3 more

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026
COMPSCI 899

Pre-dissertator Research

1–9 credits

Pre-dissertator independent research supervised by a faculty member for students who have completed a master's degree but have not reached dissertator status.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Fred SalaSong Gao+63 more

No recorded grade history

Recorded teaching history

Distinct courses recorded per term

Explore courses taught by this instructor →
Browse recorded courses
TermCourseTitle
Spring 2027COMPSCI 799Master's Research
Spring 2027COMPSCI 839Core Topics in Computing
Spring 2027COMPSCI 899Pre-dissertator Research
Fall 2026COMPSCI 691Senior Thesis
Fall 2026COMPSCI 799Master's Research
Fall 2026COMPSCI 899Pre-dissertator Research
Fall 2026ECE 699Advanced Independent Study

Teaching history may be incomplete. Course pages contain course-specific feedback and citations.

Instructor identity & provenance 
{
  "instructor_uid": "instructor_cf48df20f5efc59ed3890dac",
  "source": "enrollment",
  "source_instructor_id": "aprabhakara",
  "identity_basis": "netid",
  "identity_status": "source_identified",
  "name": "Akarsh Prabhakara",
  "email": "AKARSH@CS.WISC.EDU",
  "first_observed_at": "2026-09-07 15:55:43.033547+00:00",
  "last_observed_at": "2026-10-14 17:50:09.728220+00:00",
  "ratings": {
    "review_count": 2,
    "quality": 3,
    "difficulty": 4,
    "quality_count": 2,
    "difficulty_count": 2,
    "profile_id": "rmp:3076242",
    "source_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/3076242",
    "match_basis": "exact_name",
    "observed_at": "2026-10-14 19:29:35.336745+00:00",
    "courses": {
      "course_ab7d07685857737322064a42": {
        "review_count": 2,
        "quality": 3,
        "difficulty": 4,
        "quality_count": 2,
        "difficulty_count": 2
      }
    },
    "bayesian_quality": 3.5992668913604273,
    "prior_mean": 3.65919358049647,
    "prior_weight": 20
  },
  "current": true,
  "courses": [
    {
      "course_uid": "course_059395ab1bb5e9c017244fe2",
      "course_id": "COMPSCI 899",
      "title": "PRE-DISSERTATOR RESEARCH",
      "credits_min": 1,
      "credits_max": 9,
      "gpa": null
    },
    {
      "course_uid": "course_9430df00f7270c292c1efdd3",
      "course_id": "COMPSCI 799",
      "title": "MASTER'S RESEARCH",
      "credits_min": 1,
      "credits_max": 9,
      "gpa": null
    },
    {
      "course_uid": "course_cbc85add50a620f7e0abe663",
      "course_id": "COMPSCI 839",
      "title": "CORE TOPICS IN COMPUTING",
      "credits_min": 3,
      "credits_max": 3,
      "gpa": 3.908
    }
  ],
  "revision": "fc1811fa52e581ea57a35c0cf3343f8740a8ffbf",
  "instructor_url": "/instructors/AKARSH_PRABHAKARA"
}