11-785 Teaching Assistants

11-785/685/485 Intro to DL is a very demanding course. As much as it places demands on the students, it places far greater demands on the teaching assistants, who work very hard, often pulling long weekend hours, just to ensure that the students get the most out of the course. They hold endless office hours, answer (on average) over 30 Piazza questions a day, conduct recitations, help design quizzes, design and monitor homeworks, provide endless and tireless help to ensure students are able to complete them, mentor projects, read and grade dozens of project proposals, midterm reports and final reports, conduct final project evaluations, and finally help with the grading and assessments.

The course has been very successful, and is currently being followed by many universities around the US and the world. The success is entirely attributable to my TAs, without whose tremendous work nothing would happen. They are the real heroes of this effort.

I cannot thank them enough for everything they did and continue to do, but I can acknowledge them by name, for everyone who ever visits this page to see.

Below is a list of the TAs who have worked on the course over the various semesters.

Thank you all.

Fall 2016

Haohan Wang: haohanw@andrew.cmu.edu
Haoqi Fan: haoqif@andrew.cmu.edu

Spring 2017

Muhammad Ahmed Shah: mshah1@andrew.cmu.edu

Fall 2017

Daniel Schwartz: drschar@andrew.cmu.edu
Alexander Litzenberger: alitzenb@andrew.cmu.edu

Spring 2018

Benjamin Striner: bstriner@andrew.cmu.edu
Jerry Ding: dalud@andrew.cmu.edu
Rajat Kulshreshta: rkulshre@andrew.cmu.edu
Thomas Manzini: tmanzini@andrew.cmu.edu
Ryan Brigeden: rbrigden@andrew.cmu.edu
Mounira Tlili: mst@andrew.cmu.edu
Aggrey Muhebwa: amuhebwa@andrew.cmu.edu

Fall 2018

Ryan Brigden: rbrigden@andrew.cmu.edu
Raphael Franck Olivier: rolivier@andrew.cmu.edu
Sai Nihar Tadichetty: ntadiche@andrew.cmu.edu
Shubham Tripathi: shubhamt@andrew.cmu.edu
Soham Ghosh: sohamg@andrew.cmu.edu
Madhura Das: madhurad@andrew.cmu.edu
Ipsita Prakash: iprakash@andrew.cmu.edu
Dhruv Shah: ddshah@andrew.cmu.edu
Shaden Shaar: sshaar@andrew.cmu.edu
David Zhang: davidz1@andrew.cmu.edu
Zeqiang Huang: zqeiangh@andrew.cmu.edu
Anushree Prasanna Kumar: apkumar@andrew.cmu.edu
Muhammad Ahmad Shah: mshah1@andrew
Omar Khattab (Doha): okhattab@cmu.edu
Nebiyou Yismaw (Kigali): nyismaw@andrew.cmu.edu

Spring 2019

Alex Litzenberger: alitzenb@andrew.cmu.edu
Chia-wei Chang (for SV): chiaweic@andrew.cmu.edu
Cody Smith (for SV): codys@andrew.cmu.edu
David Bick: dbick@andrew.cmu.edu
Hengrui Liu (for SV): hengrui2@andrew.cmu.edu
Hira Dhamyal: hyd@andrew.cmu.edu
Jakob Cassiman (for SV): jcassima@andrew.cmu.edu
Josh Movenzadeh: jmoavenz@andrew.cmu.edu
Kai Hu: kaihu@andrew.cmu.edu
Mir Mohammed Daanish Ali Khan: malikhan@andrew.cmu.edu
Muhammad Ahmad Shah: mshah1@andrew.cmu.edu
Oluawefmi Azeez (for Kigali): oazeez@andrew.cmu.edu
Raphael Olivier: rolivier@andrew.cmu.edu
Sarveshwaran Dhanasekar: sarveshd@andrew.cmu.edu
Shaden Shaar (for Doha): sshaar@andrew.cmu.edu
Simral Chaudhary: simralc@andrew.cmu.edu
William Hu: haoqih@andrew.cmu.edu

Fall 2019

Aishwarya Reganti: areganti@andrew.cmu.edu
Amit Chahar: achahar@andrew.cmu.edu
Ethan Xuanyue Yang: xuanyuey@andrew.cmu.edu
Hanna Moazam: hmoazam@andrew.cmu.edu
Hariharan Muralidharan: hmuralid@andrew.cmu.edu
Kangrui Ruan (Darren): kangruir@andrew.cmu.edu
Liwei Cai: liweicai@andrew.cmu.edu
Pallavi Sharma: psharma2@andrew.cmu.edu
Parth Shah: pvshah@andrew.cmu.edu
Wendy Ebanks: wvelasqu@andrew.cmu.edu
(Kigali) Aime Musangamfura: amusanga@andrew.cmu.edu
(Kigali) Natnael Daba: ndaba@andrew.cmu.edu
(Silicon Valley) Bonan Jin: bonanj@andrew.cmu.edu
(Silicon Valley) Joseph Konan: jkonan@andrew.cmu.edu

Pix with hoodies
(In hoodie picture, from left, back row: Joseph, Nat, Parth, Ethan, Hari, Kangrui, Amit, Bonan, Liwei. Front row: Wendy, Hanna, Aishwarya, Pallavi).

Spring 2020

From left to right, then top to bottom: Amala, Bhiksha, Advait, David, Bhuvan, Soumya, Hao, Zhefan, Yash, Yuying, Ken, Yang, Rohit, Natnael, Joseph, Leo, Leo, Abrham, Christopher, Vedant.

Advait Gadhikar: agadhika@andrew.cmu.edu
Amala Sanjay Deshmukh: asdeshmu@andrew.cmu.edu
Bhuvan Agrawal: bhuvana@andrew.cmu.edu
Christopher George: cmgeorge@andrew.cmu.edu
David Park: jinhyun1@andrew.cmu.edu
Hao Liang: hliang2@andrew.cmu.edu
Jianfeng (Ken) Xia: jianfenx@andrew.cmu.edu
Rohit Prakash Barnwal: rohitprb@andrew.cmu.edu
Soumya Vadlamannati: soumyav@andrew.cmu.edu
Vedant Sanil: vsanil@andrew.cmu.edu
Yang Xia: yangxia2@andrew.cmu.edu
Yash Belhe: ybelhequ@andrew.cmu.edu
Yuying Zhu: yuyingz@andrew.cmu.edu
Zhefan Xu: zhefanx@andrew.cmu.edu
(Kigali) Abrham Gebreselasie: agebrese@andrew.cmu.edu
(Kigali) Natnael Daba: ndaba@andrew.cmu.edu
(Silicon Valley) Arpit Gupta: arpitgup@andrew.cmu.edu
(Silicon Valley) Joseph Konan: jkonan@andrew.cmu.edu
(Silicon Valley) Leo Chenghui Li: chenghui@andrew.cmu.edu

Fall 2020

From left to right, then top to bottom: Mansi, Faris, Tony, Reshmi, Bharat, Bhiksha, Jacob, Akshat, Miya, David, Abraham, Aishwarya

Aiswarya Vinod Kumar: avinodku@andrew.cmu.edu
Akshat Gupta: akshatgu@andrew.cmu.edu
Antioch Sanders: asanders@andrew.cmu.edu
Anxiang Zhang: anxiangz@andrew.cmu.edu
Bharat Gaind: bgaind@andrew.cmu.edu
David Park: jinhyun1@andrew.cmu.edu
Faris Alotibi: alotibifo@gmail.com
Jacob Lee: jcob@cmu.edu
Jiachen Lian: jlian2@andrew.cmu.edu
Kushal Saharan: ksaharan@andrew.cmu.edu
Mansi Anand: mansia@andrew.cmu.edu
Miao Wang: miaow@andrew.cmu.edu
Nicole Miya Sylvester: nsylvest@andrew.cmu.edu
Reshmi Ghosh: reshmig@andrew.cmu.edu
Sean Pereira: sapereir@andrew.cmu.edu
Tony Qin: tcq@andrew.cmu.edu
(Kigali) Abrham Gebresellasie: agebrese@andrew.cmu.edu
(Kigali) Samuel Ishimwe: samuelmbaraga@gmail.com
(Silicon Valley) Jingwei Zhang: jzhang5@andrew.cmu.edu
(Silicon Valley) Joseph Konan: jkonan@andrew.cmu.edu
(Silicon Valley) Yizhuo Zhang: yizhuoz@andrew.cmu.edu

Spring 2021

Akshat Gupta
Anurag Katakkar
Alex Kwark
David Park
Hao Chen
Joseph Konan
Kinori Rosnow
Owen Wang
Sai Prahladh
Shayeree Sarkar
Shentong Mo
Vaidehi Joshi
(China/India) Haoxuan Zhu
(China/India) Yi Shen
(Doha) Nour Ali
(India) Shriti Priya
(Kigali) Charles Yusuf
(Kigali) Tanya Akumu

Fall 2021

Chaoran Zhang
Dijing Zhang
Diksha Agarwal
Fan Zhou
Hao Chen
Hyungon (Clay) Yoo
Jinhyung Park
Joseph Konan
Manish Mishra
Mehar Goli
Ojas Bhargave
Omisa Jinsi
Urvil Kenia
Xiang Li
Yuxin (Abbey) Pei
Zhe Chen
Zilin Si
(Kigali) Rukayat Sadiq
(Kigali) Sheila Mbadi

Spring 2022

Adebayo Oshingbesan: oaadebay@andrew.cmu.edu
Amelia (Zhiyi) Kuang: zkuang@andrew.cmu.edu
Ameya Mahabaleshwarkar: amahabal@andrew.cmu.edu
Aparajith Srinivasan: aparajis@andrew.cmu.edu
Bradley Warren: bwarren2@andrew.cmu.edu
Chaoran ZHANG: chaoranz@andrew.cmu.edu
Diksha agarwal: dikshaa@andrew.cmu.edu
Fuyu Tang: fuyut@andrew.cmu.edu
Jeff Moore: jmoore3@andrew.cmu.edu
Jinhyung (David) Park: jinhyun1@andrew.cmu.edu
Joseph Konan: jkonan@cs.cmu.edu
Lavanya Gupta: lagupta@andrew.cmu.edu
Manasi Purohit: mpurohit@andrew.cmu.edu
Roshan Ram: rram@andrew.cmu.edu
Rucha Khopkar: rkhopkar@andrew.cmu.edu
Rukayat Sadiq: rsadiq@andrew.cmu.edu
Shreyas Piplani: spiplani@andrew.cmu.edu
Soumya Empran: sempran@andrew.mu.edu
Urvil Kenia: ukenia@andrew.cmu.edu
Zhe Chen: zhechen2@andrew.cmu.edu
(Qatar) John (EuiSuh) Jeong: ejeong@andrew.cmu.edu
(SV) Ruoyu Hua: ruoyuhua@andrew.cmu.edu
(SV) Wenwen Ouyang: wenweno@andrew.cmu.edu
(Kigali) Germann Atakpa: gatakpa@andrew.cmu.edu
(Kigali) Iffanice Houndayi: ibh@andrew.cmu.edu

Fall 2022

TAs with Professor Bhiksha on their last TA Debrief of the semester.

Abuzar Khan: abuzark@andrew.cmu.edu
Aditya Singh: adityas5@andrew.cmu.edu
Ameya Mahabaleshwarkar: amahabal@andrew.cmu.edu
Aparajith Srinivasan: aparajis@andrew.cmu.edu
Fuyu Tang: fuyut@andrew.cmu.edu
George Saito: takatoms@andrew.cmu.edu
Joseph Konan: jkonan@andrew.cmu.edu
Karanveer Singh: karanves@andrew.cmu.edu
Pranav Karnani: pkarnani@andrew.cmu.edu
Samiran Gode: sgode@andrew.cmu.edu
Samruddhi Pai: sdpai@andrew.cmu.edu
Shreyas Piplani: spiplani@andrew.cmu.edu
Soumya: sempran@andrew.cmu.edu
Swathi Jadav: sjadav@andrew.cmu.edu
Talha Faiz: mfaiz@andrew.cmu.edu
Vishhvak Srinivasan: vishhvas@andrew.cmu.edu
Yashash Gaurav: ygaurav@andrew.cmu.edu
Yue Jian: yuejian@andrew.cmu.edu
Zishen Wen: zishenw@andrew.cmu.edu
(SV) Oscar Joris Denys: odenys@andrew.cmu.edu
(SV) Ruoyu Hua: ruoyuhua@andrew.cmu.edu
(SV) Spatika Ganesh: spatikag@andrew.cmu.edu
(Kigali) Cedric Manouan: cmanouan@andrew.cmu.edu
(Kigali) Moayad Elamin: melamin@andrew.cmu.edu

Spring 2023

Abuzar Khan: abuzark@andrew.cmu.edu
Aparajith Srinivasan: aparajis@andrew.cmu.edu
Arjun Chauhan: arjunc@andrew.cmu.edu
Cedric Manouan: cmanoun@andrew.cmu.edu
Eshani Agrawal: eshania@andrew.cmu.edu
Harshith Kumar: harunkum@andrew.cmu.edu
Joseph Konan: jkonans@andrew.cmu.edu
Liangze "Josh" Li: liangzel@andrew.cmu.edu
Miya Sylvester: nsylvest@andrew.cmu.edu
Prakruthi Pradeep: prakruth@andrew.cmu.edu
Qin Wang: qinw@andrew.cmu.edu
Sarthak Bisht: sbisht@andrew.cmu.edu
Shikhar Agnihotri: sagnihot@andrew.cmu.edu
Swathi Jadav: sjadav@andrew.cmu.edu
Varun Jain: vjain2@andrew.cmu.edu
Vedant Bhasin: vedantb@andrew.cmu.edu
Vishhvak Srinivasan: vishhvas@andrew.cmu.edu
Yooni Choi: jungyoon@andrew.cmu.edu
(SV) Ruimeng Chang: ruimengc@andrew.cmu.edu
(Kigali) Yonas Chanie: ychanie@andrew.cmu.edu
(Kigali) Paul Ewuzie: pewuzie@andrew.cmu.edu

Fall 2023

Denis Musinguzi: dmusingu@andrew.cmu.edu
Dheeraj Pai: dmohanda@andrew.cmu.edu
Harini Subramanyan: harinisu@andrew.cmu.edu
Harshit Mehrotra: hmehrotr@andrew.cmu.edu
Harshith Arun Kumar: harunkum@andrew.cmu.edu
Jean De Dieu Nyandwi: jeandedi@andrew.cmu.edu
Jeel Shah: jdshah@andrew.cmu.edu
Kelsey J. Harvey: kelseyjh@andrew.cmu.edu
Liangze "Josh" Li: liangzel@andrew.cmu.edu
Meng Zhou: mengzhou@andrew.cmu.edu
Miya Sylvester: nsylvest@andrew.cmu.edu
Pavitra Kadiyala: pkadiyal@andrew.cmu.edu
Qin Wang: qinw@andrew.cmu.edu
R Raghav: rraghavr@andrew.cmu.edu
Rucha Manoj Kulkarni: rmkulkar@andrew.cmu.edu
Sarthak Bisht: sbisht@andrew.cmu.edu
Shikhar Agnihotri: sagnihot@andrew.cmu.edu
Sumesh Kalambettu Suresh: skalambe@andrew.cmu.edu
Jiaye "Tony" Zou: jiayez@andrew.cmu.edu
Vish: vishhvas@andrew.cmu.edu
Yohannes Haile: yohanneh@andrew.cmu.edu
Muhammed Danso: mdanso@andrew.cmu.edu
Schadrack Niyibizi: sniyibiz@andrew.cmu.edu
Emmanuel Ndayisaba: enn@andrew.cmu.edu

Spring 2024

Harini Subramanyan: harinisu@andrew.cmu.edu
Sarthak Bisht: sbisht@andrew.cmu.edu
Rucha Kulkarni: rmkulkar@andrew.cmu.edu
Vishhvak Srinivasan: vishhvas@andrew.cmu.edu
Harshith Kumar: harunkum@andrew.cmu.edu
Pavitra Kadiyala: pkadiyal@andrew.cmu.edu
Yu-Cheng "Samuel" Lin: ylin6@andrew.cmu.edu
Jeel Shah: jdshah@andrew.cmu.edu
Quentin Auster: qja@andrew.cmu.edu
Ishan Mamadapur: imamadap@andrew.cmu.edu
Chetan Chilkunda: cchilkun@andrew.cmu.edu
Kateryna Shapovalenko: kshapova@andrew.cmu.edu
Syed Hannan: shannan@andrew.cmu.edu
Shreya Kale: shreyaak@andrew.cmu.edu
Heena Chandak: hchandak@andrew.cmu.edu
Harshit Mehrotra: hmehrotr@andrew.cmu.edu
Aarya Makwana: amakwana@andrew.cmu.edu
Liangze "Josh" Li: liangzel@andrew.cmu.edu
Alexander Moker: amoker@andrew.cmu.edu
Gabrial Ashungafac: gzenchaa@andrew.cmu.edu
Denis Musinguzic: dmusingu@andrew.cmu.edu
Dareen Alharthi: dalharth@andrew.cmu.edu
Yuzhou Wang: yuzhouwa@andrew.cmu.edu
Miya Sylvester: nsylvest@andrew.cmu.edu
R Raghav: rraghavr@andrew.cmu.edu

Fall 2024

Kateryna Shapovalenko: kshapova@andrew.cmu.edu
Aarya Makwana: amakwana@andrew.cmu.edu
Harshith Kumar: harunkum@andrew.cmu.edu
Syed Hannan: shannan@andrew.cmu.edu
Alexander Moker: amoker@andrew.cmu.edu
Yuzhou Wang: yuzhouwa@andrew.cmu.edu
Miya Sylvester: nsylvest@andrew.cmu.edu
Dareen al Harthi: dalharth@andrew.cmu.edu
Angela Chen: angelac3@andrew.cmu.edu
Eman Ansar: eansar@andrew.cmu.edu
Zhiheng(Andy) Ye: zhihengy@andrew.cmu.edu
Yichen Xin: yichenx2@andrew.cmu.edu
Purusottam Samal: psamal@andrew.cmu.edu
NIYIBIGIRA Geredi: ngeredi@andrew.cmu.edu
ChooWon Sir: csir@andrew.cmu.edu
Khushali Daga: kdaga@andrew.cmu.edu
Leo Xu: guanyix@andrew.cmu.edu
Nebiyou Hailemariam: nhailema@andrew.cmu.edu
Ketan Chaudhary: ketanc@andrew.cmu.edu
Hao Chen: haoc3@andrew.cmu.edu
Vish Srinivasan: vishhvas@andrew.cmu.edu
Gabrial Zencha: gzenchaa@andrew.cmu.edu
Emmanuel Ndayisaba: ndayem72@gmail.com
Carmel Prosper SAGBO: csagbo@andrew.cmu.edu
Alex Gichamba: angicham@andrew.cmu.edu
Romerik Lokossou: rlokosso@andrew.cmu.edu
Shravanth Srinivas: shravans@andrew.cmu.edu

Spring 2025

Kateryna Shapovalenko: kshapova@andrew.cmu.edu
Miya Sylvester: nsylvest@andrew.cmu.edu
Alexander Moker: amoker@andrew.cmu.edu
Purusottam Samal: psamal@andrew.cmu.edu
Shravanth Srinivas: shravans@andrew.cmu.edu
Yuzhou Wang: yuzhouwa@andrew.cmu.edu
Massa Baali: mbaali@andrew.cmu.edu
Vedant Singh: vhsingh@andrew.cmu.edu
Sadrishya Agrawal: sadrisha@andrew.cmu.edu
Michael Kireeff: mkireeff@andrew.cmu.edu
Vishan Oberoi: voberoi@andrew.cmu.edu
Ishita Gupta: ishitag@andrew.cmu.edu
Shubham Kachroo: skachroo@andrew.cmu.edu
Shrey Jain: shreyj@andrew.cmu.edu
Floris Nzabakira: fnzabaki@andrew.cmu.edu
Christine Muthee: cmuthee@andrew.cmu.edu
Ahmed Issah: aissah@andrew.cmu.edu
Shubham Singh: shubham4@andrew.cmu.edu
Tanghang Elvis Tata: etanghan@andrew.cmu.edu
John Liu: johnliu@andrew.cmu.edu
Damilare Olatunji: dolatunj@andrew.cmu.edu
Brian Ebiyau: bebiyau@andrew.cmu.edu
Peter Wauyo: pwauyo@andrew.cmu.edu
Eman Ansar: eansar@andrew.cmu.edu

Fall 2025

Advisory TAs

Kateryna Shapovalenko: kshapova@andrew.cmu.edu
Alexander Moker: amoker@andrew.cmu.edu
Shrey Jain: shreyj@andrew.cmu.edu
John Liu: johnliu@andrew.cmu.edu
Nishoak Kosaraju: nkosaraj@andrew.cmu.edu

TAs

Miya Sylvester: nsylvest@andrew.cmu.edu
Rutvik Joshi: rutvikj@andrew.cmu.edu
Shravanth Srinivas: shravans@andrew.cmu.edu
Yuzhou Wang: yuzhouwa@andrew.cmu.edu
Massa Baali: mbaali@andrew.cmu.edu
Mengchun Zhang: mengchuz@andrew.cmu.edu
Michael Kireeff: mkireeff@andrew.cmu.edu
Sophia Wang: sophiaw3@andrew.cmu.edu
Ishita Gupta: ishitag@andrew.cmu.edu
Sreeharsha Paruchuri: sparuchu@andrew.cmu.edu
Aisha Opaluwa: aopaluwa@andrew.cmu.edu
Ahmed Alhassan: aalhassa@andrew.cmu.edu
Kipngeno Koech: bkoech@andrew.cmu.edu
Nayesha Gandotra: nayeshag@andrew.cmu.edu
Haojia Sun: haojias@andrew.cmu.edu
Yuanyi Gao: yuanyig@andrew.cmu.edu
Euijin Hong: ehong@andrew.cmu.edu
Dhivya Sreedhar: dsreedha@andrew.cmu.edu
Chaeeun Lee: chaeeunl@andrew.cmu.edu

Support TAs

Shubham Kachroo: skachroo@andrew.cmu.edu
Ahmed Issah: aissah@andrew.cmu.edu
Tanghang Elvis Tata: etanghan@andrew.cmu.edu
Mona Aman: amona@andrew.cmu.edu
Peter Wauyo: pwauyo@andrew.cmu.edu
Ahmed Safwat Abouhashem: a.s.a@pitt.edu
delphine nyaboke: delphinenyaboke@gmail.com
Carmel Sagbo: csagbo@andrew.cmu.edu
Bradley Warren: bwarren2@andrew.cmu.edu
Maxime Manzi: mmanzi@andrew.cmu.edu