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Bilge Mutlu

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Raw average: 3.69/5 from 13 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.

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What students say

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COMPSCI 639
Quality 5/5Difficulty 4/5
Best professor in the cs department. He truly cared about his students and wanted everyone to succeed. Provided a lot of extra credit opportunities and assignment extensions during the stressful era of covid. I'm sure putting the projects from this class on my resume grabbed attention of a lot of companies. You get to learn js, react and dialogflow
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COMPSCI 639
Quality 5/5Difficulty 4/5
Professor Mutlu's lectures are engaging, that I never missed any of them even though I'm one of those "slackers". I still remember his "pep talk" which gave me confidence to succeed in this class. I've landed an internsh… Read full reviewShow less
Professor Mutlu's lectures are engaging, that I never missed any of them even though I'm one of those "slackers". I still remember his "pep talk" which gave me confidence to succeed in this class. I've landed an internship at a big tech company thanks to React (Native), and DialogFlow experience from class projects. I wish he taught more classes...
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COMPSCI 639
Quality 1/5Difficulty 5/5
in online class, be prepared to teach yourself everything. they teach you the basics of react/js and expect full working algorithms done in a week. tons of homework, but it helps balance out grades. they were good with accommodating extensions, but no curve for final grades. if you have no experience in user design it will be rough
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COMPSCI 639
Quality 5/5Difficulty 4/5
Bilge is a phenomenal professor. UI is a course that needs to be offered and he created this course from scratch because he cares, not because he has to. Some people will say this is a hard class, but it's probably just their first 500+ level course. Bilge even helped me land a research position. 10/10 professor.
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COMPSCI 639
Quality 2/5Difficulty 4/5
HW not well designed. I believe that this course should be helping us to bulid UI, but not to challenge us with programming. As a CS student, it's important to solve these issue ourselves for sure. However, you may face a bunch of confusion bugs if you are a beginner of js, react. Though I'm able to solve them, it's really a waste of time.
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COMPSCI 639
Quality 5/5Difficulty 4/5
Building User Interfaces is the best CS course I have taken in UW-Madison yet. The lesson I gained from this course is so valuable and I would not have landed my internship if not because of the knowledge and skills I gained from the course. He truly cares about his students and the there're pretty much office hours any hour during the week.
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Classes with Bilge Mutlu

COMPSCI 681

Senior Honors Thesis

3 credits

Senior Honors Thesis is an individual study for seniors completing theses for honors in the Computer Sciences major, arranged with a faculty member.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Fred SalaMing Liu+20 more

No recorded grade history

COMPSCI 692

Senior Thesis

2–3 credits

Senior Thesis is an individual study course for seniors completing theses arranged with a faculty member. It serves as a continuation of COMP SCI 691.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Bilge Mutlu

No recorded grade history

COMPSCI 699

Directed Study

1–6 credits

Directed study projects for Computer Science juniors and seniors, arranged with a faculty member.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

Fred SalaDan Negrut+49 more

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026 · limited sample
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

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TermCourseTitle
Spring 2027COMPSCI 681Senior Honors Thesis
Spring 2027COMPSCI 682Senior Honors Thesis
Spring 2027COMPSCI 692Senior Thesis
Spring 2027COMPSCI 699Directed Study
Spring 2027COMPSCI 790Master's Thesis
Spring 2027COMPSCI 799Master's Research
Spring 2027COMPSCI 899Pre-dissertator Research
Spring 2027COMPSCI 990Dissertation
Fall 2026COMPSCI 681Senior Honors Thesis
Fall 2026COMPSCI 682Senior Honors Thesis
Fall 2026COMPSCI 691Senior Thesis
Fall 2026COMPSCI 699Directed Study
Fall 2026COMPSCI 702Graduate Cooperative Education
Fall 2026COMPSCI 790Master's Thesis
Fall 2026COMPSCI 799Master's Research
Fall 2026COMPSCI 899Pre-dissertator Research
Fall 2026COMPSCI 990Dissertation
Fall 2026COMPSCI/EDPSYCH/PSYCH 770Human-computer Interaction
Fall 2026ISYE 699Advanced Independent Study
Fall 2026PSYCH 681Senior Honors Thesis
Fall 2026PSYCH 699Directed Study

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