Professor: Kathi Fisler
Office Hours: Monday 10-11, Friday 2-3, and by appointment.
For appointments, check my calendar
and propose a time that is open for us both. I am not on campus on Wednesdays.
Office: Fuller 130, x5118
Email: kfisler@cs.wpi.edu
Lab Coordinator: Hao Loi
Email: hcloi@wpi.edu
Other Staff
Christina Aiello
(cjaiello, TA)
Link to Christina's Help Session Notes
Fred Silberberg
(fbsilberberg, TA)
Dmytro Bogatov
(dbogatov, SA)
Anthony Gallo
(argallo, SA)
Michael Giancola
(mjgiancola, SA)
Jacob Hackett
(jrhackett, SA)
Josh Hebert
(jahebert, SA)
Nathan Hughes
(nhhughes, SA)
Ankit Kumar
(akumar3, SA)
Thomas Meehan
(tmeehan, SA)
Huyen Nguyen
(hbnguyen, SA)
Paul Roberts
(pdroberts, SA)
Xiaoman Xu
(xxu3, SA)
Bailey Sheridan
(bsheridan, MASH)
Yiren Wang
(ywang12)
Dylan Fontana
(dfontana)
Van Chowdhary
(vchowdhary)
Quoc Ho Lam
(qholam)
Tiffany Leung
(tleung)
Justin Canas
(jdcanas)
Office Hours Grid
Kathi's hours are in her office (Fuller
130). Everyone is welcome to just come in and join whatever
questions/discussion is happening during Kathi's office hours. If you want to
talk to Kathi in private, please make an appointment for
outside office hours. In general, Kathi is available for
appointments beyond office hours by request.
TA/SA hours will be in either FLA21 (the Zoo lab) or FLA22 (both
Fuller sub-basement), depending on how crowded the Zoo lab is on a
given day.
Daytime MASH hours are in the Academic Resources Center.
Evening MASH hours are in the Exam Proctoring Center between Morgan
Dining and Network Operations.
Christina's Thursday evening help session is more of a group review
session than regular office hours. She'll go over questions and/or review problems around
material from class in the previous week. That session will be in
Fuller 311 (new permanent room, starting week 2 of term).
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9-10 | Michael | Michael | ||||
| 10-11 | Kathi, Michael | |||||
| 11-12 | Josh, Huyen | Huyen | ||||
| 12-1 | Ankit | Ankit | ||||
| 1-2 | Thomas | Ankit | Ankit, Jacob, Anthony | |||
| 2-3 | Anthony, Huyen | Xiaoman, Nathan | Jacob, Anthony | Fred | Christina | Kathi, Bailey (MASH) |
| 3-4 | Anthony | Thomas, Tiffany | Christina, Xiaoman | Fred | Christina, Thomas | |
| 4-5 | Yiren, Tiffany | Fred, Yiren | Fred | Dmytro | ||
| 5-6 | Josh | Huyen, Yiren, Tiffany (until 5:30), Quoc (at 5:30) | Fred, Paul | Fred | ||
| 6-7 | Dmytro, Josh | Paul, Quoc, Yiren | Xiaoman, Yiren, Dylan (at 6:30), Van (at 6:30) | |||
| 7-8 | Dmytro | Paul, Justin, Quoc (until 7:30), Nathan (at 7:30) | Xiaoman, Dylan, Van | Jacob | ||
| 8-9 | Nathan, Justin | Bailey (MASH), Dylan (in FLA22), Van (in FLA22) | Bailey (MASH) | Christina (Help Session, FL311) Link to Help Session Notes | ||
| 9-10 | Nathan (until 9:30) |
Lab Hours and Staff:
If you have any
issues with lab attendance not being recorded in the myWPI gradebook,
contact Professor Loi.
| Time | Place | Staff |
|---|---|---|
| 8am | FLA21 | Professor Loi, Nathan |
| 9am | SL123 | Professor Loi, Nathan, Anthony |
| 10am | SL123 | Professor Loi, Anthony, Fred |
| 11am | FLA21 | Professor Loi, Fred, Michael |
| 12pm | FLA21 | Josh, Huyen, Jacob |
| 1pm | FLA21 | Professor Loi, Jacob, Huyen |
| 2pm | FLA21 | Professor Loi, Christina, Michael |
| 3pm | FLA21 | Dmytro, Ankit, Thomas |
| 3pm | SL123 | Professor Loi, Paul |
| 4pm | FLA21 | Dmytro, Ankit, Thomas |
| 4pm | SL123 | Professor Loi, Paul, Xiaoman |
| 5pm | SL123 | Professor Loi, Xiaoman |
Who to Contact for Various Course Issues
As a general rule, use the InstructAssist forum to ask questions rather than send email to individual staff. The forum lets you mark each message as public (visible to other students in the class) or private (visible only to the course staff), so it is no less private than staff-wide email. Unlike email, however, the forum lets us track messages and our progress towards handling them.
If you send a message to an individual staff member that should have gone to the forum, we will ask you to use the forum instead. We aren't being rude. We are simply trying to handle the large volume of email that we get in a large course. The less time we spend managing email, the more time we can spend actually helping you!
The forum has different categories for your messages. When you create a message, tag it with the most appropriate category (which will direct it to the right person on our end).
If you have a question that really should go only to one person (such as an extension request or a personal concern for Professor Fisler), email that person directly. There should be very few messages going to individual staff other than Professor Fisler.