Staff

Instructors

John Canny DSP Data Access Staff Email Access

canny@berkeley.edu

Oliver Grillmeyer DSP Data Access Staff Email Access

topramen@berkeley.edu

TAs

Noah Adhikari Head TA Staff Email Access

noahadhikari@berkeley.edu

updogs! i’m a fifth-year ms from the socal south bay and though you may recognize me from other courses, this will be my first time teaching 188! catch me playing piano and guitar and maybe singing sometimes. i also play questionable amounts of tetris. super excited to meet y’all!

Pranav Muralikrishnan he/him Head TA

pranavm@berkeley.edu

Hi! My name is Pranav and I’m a senior majoring in Math and CS from New Jersey. My interests are in applying both machine learning, as well as more traditional mathematical models to ecology. In my free time I like to run, bike, and play video games!

Xavier Yin Head TA Staff Email Access

nzxyin@berkeley.edu

Hi! I’m a EECS 5th year M.S. student from New Zealand. My research interests are in accent synthesis, speech forensics, and voice anonymization. Some of my hobbies include languages, bouldering, and photography. Looking forward to meeting everyone!

Arnaud Fickinger he/him

arnaud.fickinger@berkeley.edu

I am a PhD student at BAIR working on video generation and simulators. In my spare time I play drums!

Catherine Chu she/her DSP Data Access

catherine.chu@berkeley.edu

Hi! I’m Catherine, a 4th-year CS and DS major from New Jersey. I’m interested in AI in healthcare research, and my hobbies include music, painting and binge-watching detective TV shows. Excited to meet you all this semester!

Danial Toktarbayev he/him

toktarbayev@berkeley.edu

forever reading…

Jordan Schwartz she/they

jordanschwartz@berkeley.edu

Joshua Liao he/him

Joshua.liao@berkeley.edu

Hi, I’m Josh! I enjoy volleyball, composing piano pieces, and playing auto-battlers. I love board games; my current new recommendation is Harmonies. Thanks for reading :)

Kenny Wang he/him

kwkw@berkeley.edu

Hey, I’m Kenny! I’m a fourth-year EECS student from the Bay, and this is my fourth time TA’ing CS 188. I like badminton (im ok), napping (im very good), whistling (im very good), playing the MLK piano (im ok), planes (im very good), and impersonating Peyrin (was better when i had short hair). Who actually reads staff bios anyway?

Michael Wu he/him

michael.wu1@berkeley.edu

Hi! I’m Michael, a master’s student from San Diego. Fun facts about me: this is my fifth time TA’ing this course, I’ve watched The Office ~9 times, and I’m currently addicted to playing 1v1 catan online (over winter break I hit top 500 in the world!) - looking forward to meeting you all :)

Mustafa Mirza he/him

mustafa.mirza@berkeley.edu

Hi! I’m a senior studying CS and DS. I’m from Brunei Darussalam and I love futbol, running, hiking, music and martial arts! Don’t hesitate to reach out to me for anything - classes, life advice any movies, shows, food or music recommendations!

sselvan@berkeley.edu

Hi! I’m a 3rd year EECS major (and Math minor) from Florida. I enjoy researching about the computer vision and tackling interesting algorithmic problems. Outside of school, I love playing the drums, cooking with friends, and recently started bouldering! Looking forward to a great semester and feel free to reach out!

Suhong Moon he/him

suhong.moon@berkeley.edu

Hi! I’m a PhD student at BAIR. My research is to simulate human with LLMs.

Wesley Zheng he/him

wzheng0302@berkeley.edu

Hey everyone! I’m a junior majoring in computer science and applied mathematics, and I’m TAing for CS 188 for the third time! In my free time, I like to drink boba, eat snacks, and play Genshin Impact.

Tutors

Advika Bhike she/her

abhike@berkeley.edu

Hey everyone, I’m a third year CS major and I like matcha, Christopher Nolan, and hiking. Looking forward to a fun semester!

Andrew Choy he/him

andrewchoy@berkeley.edu

Bello! I’m Andrew. I’m a junior studying computer science and data science. Please feel free to reach out about anything.