Jerry Gao - San Jose State University

Professor: Jerry Gao

Department: Computer Engineering

College: San Jose State University

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: CMPE257
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Worst Professor EVER

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CMPE257
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Teaches Nothing. He is not interested to teach at all. Not clear grading. Don't take his class.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: CMPE281
• Grade Received: INC
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

One of the worst professors at SJSU. He doesn't teach at all. All you need to do is a group project and 2 easy lab assignments. Be aware of 2 pop quizzes. The subject is cloud computing but the project he gives is a different application altogether and all you have to do is deploy on cloud which hardly take 1 hour. Complete waste of time.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: CMPE258
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Was a mistake taking this class. Did not learn anything

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: CMPE287
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: No
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

worst professor ever. LITERALLY teaches nothing and give bad grades.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CMPE281
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Did not learn even one thing in this class. Utter waste. Should have taken Paul 281.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: CMPE281
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: No
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

I've made appointments to meet with him as someone who is interested in his research. But he is very unprofessional at answering emails and following through with meeting arrangements. I've been let down multiple times. It's time to look for another professor to do research under. (Graduate Student)

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: CMPE281
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Unclear project requirement. Unclear grading criteria. Boring and useless class content. Heavy memorizing exam. Acquiesced in the cheating scheme, although he said not to. Lying about what you'd did in your final project may get higher grades.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: CMPE281
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Boring lecture, not very helpful

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: CMPE281
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

His lecture is super-boring and his voice is very soft. Gao is very unhelpful when you ask him for help. The project requirement is vague. Don't take his class

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: CMPE281
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Incredibly helpful term project and course content. Very good conceptual exam questions. However his teaching style is very boring. He is also very harsh during presentation reviews. He criticizes and humiliates people in front of everyone. Project requirements are very vague. You have to figure out everything by yourself.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: CMPE295
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

This guy is just obsessed with himself. Does not stick to his plans and makes the student work on the last day before the deadlines. Is on least help and complete lack of technical knowledge

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: 281
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Have taken him in my first semester. Ruined entire semester. I think even he is not clear about what he is teaching. Always praises himself only. Own methodologies. Entire mid term and final papers were theoretical. In Project definition was not clear to entire class (not even him) .

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: CMPE281
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Professor's lectures are lengthy and boring. Slides and only slides. Paper is easy. Takes a lot of time in grading. There is no textbook for this course. He teaches from slides. If you are good with memorizing stuff. Take this class for grades. You won't learn much. He's not much of help. His voice is unclear.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: CMPE281
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Good professor. You will enjoy his lectures. Not much workload. Last 2 weeks will be critical part. You can easily score 90+ in midterms and finals. His laughter is funny. PS:- How about that?

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: CMPE281
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Awesome teaching. Very professional. Personally evaluates all papers and projects. One of the best course. Great team project!

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: CMPE187
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Dr Gao didn't manage the class well especially the end of semester. He asked students to do presentation on the Finals week! He puts the presentations on the dead day which he was not supposed to. He didn't show up on the presentation day! It takes forever to post the grades; he doesn't stick to SJSU due date for posting the grades. He's a headache

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: CMPE23501
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

(2012) The class has good coverage on design for mobile-based systems in terms of system infrastructures, mobile client design, & mobile security design, etc. It covers mobile cloud computing subjects, such as mobile cloud infrastructures, mobile cloud services, mobile green computing, mobile cloud DB, etc. Very interesting project/lab assigments.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: CMPE287
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Attend his conferences, if not your grade will be lower! Absolute waste of time. I am from industry and this course could have been so much more useful if someone better had taught us. Avoid this guy if you can.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: CMPE281
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Very Good teacher, you will learn a lot just by doing his projects. So far the best at SJSU