Awful

I was Professor Schwartz' teacher assistant for CSE 354. Surprisingly, I've never seen any professor who handles a class in a worse way than this. He never talked to us about anything. He expected us to know the homework and help the students without knowing that it had been released. Since the classes were online, he needed us to monitor the students, but he told us about it like an hour ago.

Awful

I've taken over 150 credits of college classes and Prof. Andrew was the most terrible prof I've ever taken. He doesn't seem to care about the students and is super messy whether it's releasing assignments or grading them. To clarify, my 150 credits are even distributed through 5 colleges in NY.

Awesome

I feel like people are trying to take out the whole online classes issue on him, but it's actually not his fault. He used respondus for online exams, which is a garbage program and pure spyware. Poor choice but nobody knew anything to start with. He's honestly a good lecturer and professor, and I feel like this is what matters.

Awesome

I honestly don't understand why Prof. Schwartz is getting bad reviews. He's amazing!!! Yes, his exams are hard, but he gives interesting lectures. What you see on exams are also those you get from the textbook. Only thing I hate is he takes forever to respond to emails.

Awesome

Prof. Andrew is amazing! He clearly knows his stuff and he teaches pretty well! Exams are tough, but HW is fair! I really had lots of fun! Learned a lot from him as well!

Awful

I haven't seen a professor at the SBU who was so very bad at teaching. Professor Schwartz wasn't able to convey simple concepts such as TF-IDF, forget the complex topics. Before Covid-19 lectures were not recorded. But it didn't really matter though. Honestly, you'd probably get more confused after class and end up just reading the textbook.

Awful

Professor Schwartz' NLP lessons were very vague. And if you don't have a solid background in machine learning, you'll get lost in his class. He always looks unsure of his own answers and presentations. He'll say a lot of ums and ahs. In the end, we only learn the introduction of the concepts. Overall, this professor should be avoided at all costs.

Awful

Yes, Professor Schwartz is a great researcher with a lot of work on mental health. But you wouldn't know he's knowledgeable about mental wellness. He's one of the most unsympathetic and insensitive professors I've ever seen. The slides of his lectures are literally fancy images. His exams supposedly test concepts but then you have to memorize equations or you're done.