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HAO SHEN

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Raw average: 3.16/5 from 25 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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MATH 635
Quality 1/5Difficulty 3/5
As is typical for the Math 500+ professors, I got nothing out of Hao's lectures. Get ready to teach yourself out of the textbook.
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MATH 222
Quality 1/5Difficulty 3/5
He was very distant from his students and had no personality. Also, he was not understanding if you had any conflicts or illness. I was in the hospital and he insisted I still take the exam that day.
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MATH 222
Quality 2/5Difficulty 3/5
bro cannot do a single problem without skipping steps and not full explaining. really feels like you have to already know what's going on to understand sometimes. dry as a desert. made a funny joke about the derivative of lecture attendance being negative though :)
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MATH 222
Quality 5/5Difficulty 2/5
Super awesome. If you clearly follow what he said during lecture, full GPA is TOOOOO easy
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Classes with HAO SHEN

An introduction to Brownian motion and stochastic calculus, covering Ito integrals, Ito's formula, and stochastic differential equations.

No offering record · Spring 2026

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historical GPA · grades

Spring 2022–Spring 2026 · limited sample

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TermCourseTitle
Spring 2026MATH 635An Introduction to Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus
Fall 2025MATH 990Reading and Research
Spring 2024MATH 635An Introduction to Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus
Spring 2024MATH 698Directed Study
Fall 2023MATH/STAT 733Theory of Probability I
Spring 2023MATH/STAT 833Topics in the Theory of Probability
Fall 2022MATH 735Stochastic Analysis
Spring 2022MATH 635An Introduction to Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus
Fall 2021MATH 222Calculus and Analytic Geometry 2
Fall 2020MATH 735Stochastic Analysis
Spring 2020MATH 635An Introduction to Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus
Spring 2020MATH/STAT 833Topics in the Theory of Probability
Fall 2019MATH 990Reading and Research
Spring 2019MATH/STAT 431Introduction to the Theory of Probability
Fall 2018MATH 735Stochastic Analysis

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