Although she is clearly very smart, she is not great at running a class. Exams deviated from what we had seen in class which resulted in terrible averages. Often lectured for over half of the 70 minute period when the activity is written to take the full 70 minutes. Overall one of the worst experiences I have had in a class

Great background for a professor, So I was excited to take this prof at the start of this class, but yeah no.

Not a good teacher. Explanations often unclear. Knows a lot and is a good person but teaching is a skill and she is not skilled at it.

The course requires background knowledge in Probability, Statistics, and Optimization; otherwise, understanding the contents would be very challenging. It takes lots of time to take notes and do homework, but you can learn many cool concepts from this course.

It's a bit difficult to recommend Prof Vinayak, 331 gets into complex stats (to understand, not the math). Prof V does mini-lectures at the start of class that don't clear anything up, only take away time from the long exercises. When she comes to answer a question, she doesn't always bring the explanation down to my level (I am a stats dummy).

Terrible prerequisites especially for a class at this difficulty. Lectures do not cover a whole lot yet are mandatory. Insufficient office hours. Overall "very knowledgeable but bad teacher" is the best description.

Very knowledgeable but bad teacher. Prereqs not sufficient. Had a literal office hour (2x 30 mins/week). Very derisive to students. Responded to student answering lecture question "If you thought you needed independence, then you have to go back to probability 101." There were tons of examples like this. Got so bad that I kept quotes as mementos.

AVOID AT ALL COSTS!