He responds to emails relatively fast and works with you. Submitted a project late and he didn't deduct the points because I talked to him, turning my grade from a B to an AB. Nice guy, but lectures can be a bit confusing.

Projects are alright, exams are very easy if you have a a strong linalg and calc background but would not recommend for a CS elective because this class is mainly math

Young is a great person to take a class with and I would highly recommend. Beware that he wants to create the most sadistic exams possible, but if you reach out, he will be incredibly helpful and able to talk online, after lectures, or during almost weekly zoom review sessions. He is very passionate about his job and overall a great guy.

Three quarters of the test material were reviewed in recorded review lecture sessions. He responds to instantly, and is a really nice, dedicated professor who truly cares for students. Ignore the other misleading reviews. I went to office hours for an exam review and saw about 4 people. Put in the work and you'll be completely fine.

Nice guy who cares about his students but unfortunately isn't talented at giving lectures or structuring them. They are hard to listen to and follow as the material seems to be taught out of order, and he isn't a very good orator. The only thing that was very well done are the homework assignments.

You need to go into this class ready to go to/watch recordings of all of his extra coding and review sessions. I got what I was looking for from the course. Prof Wu definitely cares a lot. He needs several more years of experience and feedback to improve his lecture style. I could see him turning into a great professor. For now, he has work to do.

Everything about this class is mid. The lectures are hard to follow, the homeworks are meh, and the exams are difficult but can be aced if you study the right way. Prof Wu is extremely nice though, always on Piazza and hosted 20+ hours of review sessions for the final. Not the best course but easy if you take advantage of the provided resources.

He's a sweet professor who cares a lot for his students but the material goes into a lot of technical depth and often does not have any correlation to AI. Midterms are unnecessarily hard. Holds coding session and review session that are optional but then most of the questions in the exams come from them - definitely not a 3 credit class.

Dr. Wu is a very nice professor and does a good job explaining topics in class. One thing I never understood was making the exams very difficult. On the two exams offered in the Fall semester, the mean was around 50% for both exams. Homeworks were useful. Class is probably not worth the time and effort simply because the exams are very difficult.

This class is extremely math heavy and very hard. The homework had little to do with the exams but wasn't too bad. He is fine at lecturing, but IMO the material is very hard to understand. The notes aren't helpful at all without the lectures, but those are recorded so you can rewatch. He was willing to adjust the curve when students were struggling

HE DOESNT KNOW HOW TO TEACH. I HAD TO TAKE DOULE LECTURE TIME TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HE IS DOING DURING THE LECTURE. AND THE EXAMS HAD NO CONNECTION WITH THE LECTURES. YOU HAVE TO LEARN EVERYTHING BY YOURSELF. AND AFTER THE TA TOLD HIM THE EXAM IS A BIT HARD, HE STILL LEFT THAT ONE TO US, BECAUSE HE THINGING THAT ONE IS EASY.

Lectures were very hard to follow and he is terrible at explaining concepts. The projects are great and very informative. However, the exams are impossible and there is no chance of studying with the class material because material as comprehensive or complicated as the exam does not exist.

The course was difficult to follow. There was a significant gap between the difficulty of lectures and exams. Topics presented as 'easy' became much more complex in tests. Math notation in lectures was often unclear, undefined, or erroneous. Exam preparation felt unrelated to the practical application of AI concepts. Overwhelming load.

Great for cs320 but so bad for 540. Lecture content does not correlate with exams at all. I come out of lecture with a good conceptual understanding of the material and not a clue on how to do a singular exam problem. He defiently puts the work in with a ton of extra review and coding sessions but the exams are unnecessarily hard.

Goodluck taking this class, class wasn't organized lecture slides had no details in them and you couldn't understand any of the things on the slide just by reading them, the lectures were useless. The professor is highly qualified and hard worker too he will hold extra study sessions for projects and exams but he doesn't do a good job at teaching

Professor tries hard and cares a lot about the class, seen in how he has 2-3hr coding sessions every weekend, answers piazza posts quickly, is always patient answering questions. But the course lacks coherence. It is not clear in class how any of the topics are related. He does not do a good job building intuition or the big picture.

Professor Wu is a kind and dedicated instructor. He patiently answers all questions after class and on Piazza. He also holds coding sessions to guide students through the thought process for weekly projects. His lectures are not too difficult to follow.

Young Wu doesn't have logic. Period. What he says on the class doesn't make any sense.

The professor was outrageous, the rules kept changing, the whole class was confusing, and he seemed very inexperienced. Can also now see him next school Spring 2025 school not even assigning him so many classes. You can see how poorly he is rated.

Young Wu has the ability to complicate every single thing. Comparing to take the lecture, I would rather watch a bunch of YouTube videos. The YouTube videos make much more sense than this lecture.

I took it in summer term, which is an online course. He is the real King. He works hard, so you can easily get respond in piazza even at 3:00 am. Homework and exams are easy. You can easily get an A in this course.

Recommend choosing another professor's class that would be better than him.

He is a very responsible teacher. He answers questions on Piazza in the early morning and before class. Even after the course ends, he is willing to guide students. Very nice person.

I love Young Wu. He is a caring, the most nice professor that I ever met in UW-Madison campus. He will give a lot of exam detail in the practice exam. The material that he provided to us is highly similar to the actual exam. Which is really helpful!!

If you took his course, you would realize how easy it is to get an A.

As others mentioned, lectures were highly disorganized, hard to follow, and I rarely gained anything by attending. However, attendance was regularly taken through TopHat. Prof did offer both online and in-person options for lecture. Office hours were disorganized and could spend hours waiting to talk to someone. Overall discouraging experience.

Lectures were so disorganized and used premade notes that felt incomplete. Used way too much math jargon/symbols for a second semester python course. Exams were difficult because he rarely explained anything. Had to watch lectures from a previous professor to understand anything. Projects are helpful as well.

The structure of this class makes it really hard to understand. No live coding and he skips around his notes a ton. Most of learning is the projects. Exams have details we never learned / were not understandable from the jumbled lectures. Gives some free exam questions.

Wu has a slight stutter and sometimes is hard to understand. His style of lecturing is pretty unstructured, hopping from one part of his notes to another in no specific order. I should also add that his notes are prewritten and he does not walk through his code during class. He also doesn't explain keywords and expects students to understand.

The fact that anyone can rate Wu above a 1 is insane. Awful lecturer and just cruel overall. Waited until days before the drop deadline to accuse tons students of cheating giving them 0s that dropped them to failing grades over a single question on an assignment. Absolutely no sympathy for his students, lectures are extremely unclear/hard to follow

He teaches the class with a slight stutter and being a cs code class he doesn't demonstrate typing the code in class, he speaks exactly to the screenshots of the code that he wrote ahead of time. The pace of the class was jumpy. This is the worst lecturer I've ever encountered.

Professor Wu was a great professor. Explained things well and grading was clear. Everything was auto graded so you knew what your grade was before submitting programs and math homework, which made it super easy to get nearly a perfect score. Not to say that the assignments were "easy", but you put in the moderate amount of work and you'll get an A.

Young is a great instructor. Always responsive. He would stay for extra time during his office hours and is very patient with questions. He has very interesting demos in his class. Highly recommended!