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Akshat Patel INST464 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 11/12/2025	Cool professor and chill course. Learned about the theoretical GRC side concepts!! Don't expect any practicals, nothing like that in this course at least, but the course is doable, and the professors' support helped me to finish it smoothly.
Akshat Patel INST464 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/03/2025	Young dude, lots of hubris. Not prepared for teaching. Doesn't understand the concepts he's teaching. Much rather take this class with anyone else
Akshat Patel INST464 Expecting an A- Anonymous 10/16/2025	The lecturer is really kind and accommodating. There are moments when work feels a bit daunting and boring, but not separate final project and homeworks build your final project which is good for me.. However, this course has shown me that I hate cybersecurity, so there's that.
Akshat Patel INST464 Expecting a B Anonymous 09/21/2025	When I asked this professor to clarify a topic in class, he literally scoffed at me and said "this is a easy concept, what don't you understand"
Akshat Patel INST464 Expecting an A- Anonymous 09/19/2025	I came into this class with high hopes taking a professor that was young and had relevant industry experience, but I am disappointed to say the least. He does not teach. He only sits there an reads slides, if you ask him any questions he brushes you off, work in the class is crazy with tons of extra outside learning. He expects you to do multiple readings in order to do the homework, and none of his lecture content is actually applicable to what is being graded.
Akshat Patel INST464 Expecting a B Anonymous 09/16/2025	I would take anyone else if you could or just don't take this class as an elective. He barely teaches and has a intense accent that leaves you scrambling to figure out what he's saying. I booked an appointment with him for office hours and he was incredibly dismissive of my questions simply because I was trying to learn more. This professor will outright hinder you when trying to learn and understand the concepts he is trying to teach.
Akshat Patel INST464 Expecting an A- Anonymous 09/16/2025	Best professor so far for cybersecurity courses with ISchool. He works in athletics and has real knowledge to share about what happens if something goes wrong. He is also humble and responds to emails quickly. Not sure how tough the exams are going to be, but with the current course structure and teaching, I believe I will be doing okay! The course discusses one framework if we could cover more, I would have been able to learn more, but the FAIR model itself seems to be time-consuming..
Akshat Patel INST464 Expecting an A- Anonymous 09/15/2025	I was afraid to take this course at first as other cybersecurity courses have given me a bad experience, but I wanted to because I aim to build my career in cybersecurity driven by my passion for data analytics. Prof. Akshat is very smart and skilled in what he teaches. He is humble and very approachable. When I ask him questions at the end, he is very accommodating and helpful. He is also helping me with my side project that I discussed with him. I am very grateful to take his class.
Joseph Kelly INST464 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/16/2025	Very nice professor and pretty accommodating. Work can be a little overwhelming at times but nothing that cannot be done. But this class made me realize i actually do hate cybersecurity so theres that
Joseph Kelly INST464 Expecting an A Anonymous 10/10/2024	Unreal teacher. He is definitely the best teacher I have had in all of INFO sci. The class itself is easy, but what he teaches is very relevant and the final project can actually be used in real life. He wants his students to get jobs and is very helpful in doing so, and has an impressive background to back it up.
Alla Levin INST464 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/14/2023	Professor was very helpful through the whole semester and informative
Susan Campbell INST464 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/30/2020	Easy class

Akshat Patel
INST464

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
11/12/2025

Cool professor and chill course. Learned about the theoretical GRC side concepts!! Don't expect any practicals, nothing like that in this course at least, but the course is doable, and the professors' support helped me to finish it smoothly.

Akshat Patel
INST464

Expecting an A
Anonymous
11/03/2025

Young dude, lots of hubris. Not prepared for teaching. Doesn't understand the concepts he's teaching. Much rather take this class with anyone else

Akshat Patel
INST464

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
10/16/2025

The lecturer is really kind and accommodating. There are moments when work feels a bit daunting and boring, but not separate final project and homeworks build your final project which is good for me.. However, this course has shown me that I hate cybersecurity, so there's that.

Akshat Patel
INST464

Expecting a B
Anonymous
09/21/2025

When I asked this professor to clarify a topic in class, he literally scoffed at me and said "this is a easy concept, what don't you understand"

Akshat Patel
INST464

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
09/19/2025

I came into this class with high hopes taking a professor that was young and had relevant industry experience, but I am disappointed to say the least. He does not teach. He only sits there an reads slides, if you ask him any questions he brushes you off, work in the class is crazy with tons of extra outside learning. He expects you to do multiple readings in order to do the homework, and none of his lecture content is actually applicable to what is being graded.

Akshat Patel
INST464

Expecting a B
Anonymous
09/16/2025

I would take anyone else if you could or just don't take this class as an elective. He barely teaches and has a intense accent that leaves you scrambling to figure out what he's saying. I booked an appointment with him for office hours and he was incredibly dismissive of my questions simply because I was trying to learn more. This professor will outright hinder you when trying to learn and understand the concepts he is trying to teach.

Akshat Patel
INST464

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
09/16/2025

Best professor so far for cybersecurity courses with ISchool. He works in athletics and has real knowledge to share about what happens if something goes wrong. He is also humble and responds to emails quickly. Not sure how tough the exams are going to be, but with the current course structure and teaching, I believe I will be doing okay! The course discusses one framework if we could cover more, I would have been able to learn more, but the FAIR model itself seems to be time-consuming..

Akshat Patel
INST464

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
09/15/2025

I was afraid to take this course at first as other cybersecurity courses have given me a bad experience, but I wanted to because I aim to build my career in cybersecurity driven by my passion for data analytics. Prof. Akshat is very smart and skilled in what he teaches. He is humble and very approachable. When I ask him questions at the end, he is very accommodating and helpful. He is also helping me with my side project that I discussed with him. I am very grateful to take his class.

Joseph Kelly
INST464

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/16/2025

Very nice professor and pretty accommodating. Work can be a little overwhelming at times but nothing that cannot be done. But this class made me realize i actually do hate cybersecurity so theres that

Joseph Kelly
INST464

Expecting an A
Anonymous
10/10/2024

Unreal teacher. He is definitely the best teacher I have had in all of INFO sci. The class itself is easy, but what he teaches is very relevant and the final project can actually be used in real life. He wants his students to get jobs and is very helpful in doing so, and has an impressive background to back it up.

Alla Levin
INST464

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/14/2023

Professor was very helpful through the whole semester and informative

Susan Campbell
INST464

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
01/30/2020

Easy class

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