# AKARSH PRABHAKARA — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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## Dataset

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### built at

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### departments

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## instructor

### instructor uid

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### source

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### identity status

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### name

AKARSH PRABHAKARA

### first observed at

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### last observed at

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### ratings

#### review count

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#### quality

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#### difficulty

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#### quality count

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#### difficulty count

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#### courses

##### course ab7d07685857737322064a42

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#### graded

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#### sections

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### current

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### courses

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### revision

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### instructor url

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## history

| term | course\_uid                      | course\_id  | title                             |
| ---- | -------------------------------- | ----------- | --------------------------------- |
| 1264 | course\_9430df00f7270c292c1efdd3 | COMPSCI 799 | MASTER'S RESEARCH                 |
| 1264 | course\_cbc85add50a620f7e0abe663 | COMPSCI 839 | CORE TOPICS IN COMPUTING          |
| 1264 | course\_059395ab1bb5e9c017244fe2 | COMPSCI 899 | PRE-DISSERTATOR RESEARCH          |
| 1262 | course\_ab7d07685857737322064a42 | COMPSCI 640 | INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER NETWORKS |
| 1262 | course\_9430df00f7270c292c1efdd3 | COMPSCI 799 | MASTER'S RESEARCH                 |
| 1262 | course\_059395ab1bb5e9c017244fe2 | COMPSCI 899 | PRE-DISSERTATOR RESEARCH          |
| 1254 | course\_9430df00f7270c292c1efdd3 | COMPSCI 799 | MASTER'S RESEARCH                 |
| 1254 | course\_cbc85add50a620f7e0abe663 | COMPSCI 839 | CORE TOPICS IN COMPUTING          |
| 1254 | course\_059395ab1bb5e9c017244fe2 | COMPSCI 899 | PRE-DISSERTATOR RESEARCH          |

## timeline

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| ---- | ------- |
| 1254 | 3       |
| 1262 | 3       |
| 1264 | 3       |

## term

1272

## courses

None recorded.

## reviews

### items

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    "review_date": "2026-07-09 20:40:58 +0000 UTC",
    "comment": "Great professor and would recommend this course",
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    "review_date": "2025-12-04 05:00:28 +0000 UTC",
    "comment": "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.",
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### page

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### courses

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| course\_ab7d07685857737322064a42 | COMPSCI 640 |

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