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Deep Ray
STAT426 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/24/2025 |
I would give 6 stars if I could. Phenomenal professor, probably the best I've had at UMD so far. Very knowledgeable on the material. Said material is really damn hard and confusing but he makes it so that you can understand it. It's a lot of work and a lot of confusing math, but Professor Ray made this probably my favorite class I've taken. |
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Deep Ray
STAT426 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/23/2025 |
Prof. Ray is very knowledgeable about machine learning and his course was quite engaging. Material covered a lot of the formal background for machine learning methods, and the final project gave students a good chance to actually apply the material. Exams were extremely fair and homework, though sometimes challenging, was totally reasonable. Would recommend taking this course with Dr. Ray if you get the chance. |
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Deep Ray
AMSC460 Anonymous 10/30/2024 |
Amazing professor! I was nervous to take this course because I am not the best with MATLAB, but Prof. Ray is very helpful and is willing to meet with you one-on-one if you cannot make his office hours. His lectures are very clear, he posts his lecture notes on Canvas, and HWs are made up of mostly non-coding questions plus a few MATLAB questions, all of which are very straightforward if you follow the notes/read what he provides. Exams are very straightforward and fair -- if you review the HWs and the notes you will be fine. He also allows you to have a 1-sided cheat sheet on the exam. Hands down one of the best professors I've had for math and overall at UMD. |
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Deep Ray
STAT426 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/11/2023 |
Dr. Ray is extremely knowledgeable about his field and clearly cares about ensuring his class is fair and thorough. I really enjoyed his breakdown of the class. Homeworks (which include both theory/proofs and coding and application) were tough but fair. His office hours were helpful whenever I had questions. His exams were more intuition/big-picture concept questions and were a lot easier than the homeworks. The final project is a final report integrating the various machine learning approaches we have learned in class. I like how he designs the report to be possibly used as a mini-portfolio/reference for the future. While Dr. Ray is a new professor at UMD, I would say that he is already one of my favorite teachers. He sometimes goes a little quickly through the slides but all his lecture slides are posted on ELMS. I would highly recommend this class and Dr. Ray if you are interested in learning more about machine learning approaches! |