Teaching Associate
Machine Learning for Decision Making (MGMTMSA 401)

Master of Science in Business Analytics, Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Anonymous Student Evaluations

Strength: great TA overall. Weakness: only lead the TA session instead of the entire curriculum :)

Lalit has a great understanding of the concepts he taught us in our Machine Learning class. He was genuinely interested to help out students with their conceptual understanding and was too patient to listen to our issues during the class. Very helpful and knowledeable person with an honest intention to improve and learn on the go. Thank you!

Lalit was excellent as our TA for the Machine Learning course. Not only did he help us understand several important topics taught during the class lectures in TA hours, but also gave a lot of additional information related to learning more about the concepts. The TA sessions were very interactive and his advices for the course and beyond are very helpful. Thank you so much for all your cooperation and support! :)

Strengths - Clear communication, pace of speech, sense of humor

Lalit is a very responsible and caring TA. He is well-prepared for every TA session and gives concrete explanation for the topics that I have trouble to understand.

Lalit is highly knowledgable of ML applications in theory and in practice. He is further experienced in transferring his knowledge of the subject to students in understandable way without omitting any information. As a bonus, he is knowledgable of the trends in the industry, is up to date with the subject and has real-life experience, which he is happy and enthusiastic to share with students.

Strengths: Humble, Knowledgeable, Approachable Weaknesses: I don’t see any

Lalit Bhagat is very passionate about what he teaches and he’s very knowledge in his field. He knows his stuff. He also gives out additional career search suggestions for us. He’s really helpful!

real strengths: accommodate to different students needs in learning.

Lalit is an excellent TA and is very knowledgeable. I got to learn more from his TA sessions than from the professor himself. Lalit also knows his stuff well and his TA sessions are very interactive, informative and engaging.

Open for communications, ready to help and support. Knows material and able to share it easily

Lalit is a person who I believe a lot of us relate to. He creates a very comfortable environment for learning and clarifying doubts. He is also clearly knowledgeable about the contents of the class who he is the TA for

The TA session was very helpful and Lalit was able to explain things clearly.

Lalit is more helpful than the professor in this course and he could explain the concepts more clearly.

Very personable and approachable. Provided a personalized learning experience even with 80 people in each session

Lalit does such a good job to curate the material to the learning experience of the student. He goes to great lengths to make sure what he is covering is not only relevant to the class but is also easy to understand and complements the theoretical concepts we have learned in class.

He also makes sure the session is interactive and we are involved in the session and not just listening.

Very engaging sessions and really helped clear a lot of basic concepts that were not clarified in the class

Lalit effectively explained concepts from the lecture and cleared any confusion we had from our lecture with the professor. Great TA.

LinkedIn tutorial very helpful

Lalit helped me to gain a better understanding of the course material

strengths – prepare the class well, and explain material clear

Lalit is better than the professor.

Lalit was helpful in helping us understand complex concepts. Machine learning isn’t an easy topic, especially for someone with a Business background, and I learned a lot every time I went to his TA sessions. He is willing to lend a hand and offer help whenever he can.

great TA sessions! it was NOT boring at all, it was very engaging. The chocolate was good haha. The colab files were very organized and fun to study and read. The fact that we didn’t just sit and listen and we had the chance to code while learning was very efficient

You are more helpful than the professor! Thank you!!

Very clear at explaining material and made it easy to understand.

strengths: Lalit gives a real-world perspective, and explains in a easy to understand way with visualizations and well organized (and fun) materials weakness: not familiar with some concepts (but not a big problem, we can easily find resources online)

The TA sessions were very helpful in building intuition about various ML concepts.

really helpfulllllllll

Great and well organized TA lab sessions. Thank you for having us for the past 5 weeks!

Codes and code explanations are very helpful!

I think the TA session is awesome.

strengths: structured material, good compliment and explanation provided for course material weakness: since we only have limited time, it’s important to have the key concept delivered in the most efficient ways

Your TA session really helped me a lot in understanding the course material and I appreciate the practicality of your tips/advices.

What do you think was the best part about the lab section/TA?

YOU ARE GREAT LECTURER

The fun, memes, coding and not just talking about the codes! best TA class I have attended so far

It’’s interesting and can tell that TA put a lot of effort in preparing the material going through the examples step-by-step

The humour

Everything explained is foundamental and clear. Super helpful especially for students from non-technical background like me!

Delivery of the learning in a great format!

the interactive environment

very organized materials, explanation of the concept in the easy to understand way (like I am 5 years old), and good interaction to keep me focused

Going over each concepts and code blocks carefully

Knowledgable, Frank and was able to explain things nicely

Related with the homework

Chocolate

You were explaining things clearly

Interaction

Insights into ML approaches. Would love to see more dive into ML in the coming weeks.

TA is really helpful

Going over the basics

Extremely helpful

Helping with assignments

hw hints

Providing additional color into why were are doing the questions that were assigned. They are meant to help us understand deeper a specific topic about machine learning.

Class Engagement and actually covering relevant material. Your enthusiasm was very much appreciated as well.

chocolates

Interactive session.

The session was very informative and interactive! I learned a lot in a lot less time

Understanding pros and cons of different packages

not everybody knows python well so having exercises similar to the hw helps

the step by step analisis Go over the sample solution of hw.

Helpful for HW

chocolates

The class was very informative and interactive!

Hyperparameters is a useful method, would use it in the future.

Weekly feedback

You are the best TA

Thank you for going above and beyond to help us. You did your best with the TA sessions and it showed. All the very best for your Amazon job, I am certain you will do well :)

honestly nothing you are a life saver

You did a great job. I liked how you helped us understand the homework better. As someone with no coding knowledge prior to doing this Master’s program, I found it extremely helpful for my learning.

Really enjoyed your TA sessions - it was informative and helped break down difficult concepts so that they’re easy so understand.

Thank you for making Machine learning interesting for all of us! Your sessions were really helpful and good luck for Amazon!

You did a great job. I liked how you helped us understand the homework better. As someone with no coding knowledge prior to doing this Master’s program, I found it extremely helpful for my learning.

Learning through memes is effective

Awesome having you as the TA and all the best for the future! :)

thank you so much for your constant efforts to make it interesting

Thx for a well-prepared session! Really helpful!

Helpful as always! Thanks! Superb job

good class! love the memes

You are great!

The content is great! Thank you :)

Thank you for the great session!

Great lab sessions! Thank you for having us for the past 5 weeks!

great TA!

Great TA session

Great sessions. All the best for your journey ahead!

Thank you lalit~

Emails

“Hi Lalit,

I hope this message finds you well.

I have completed the final project, and I wanted to take a moment to express my sincere gratitude to you.

Your passion for our cohort has been truly inspiring. Not only did you excel in teaching the intricacies of the subject matter, but your commitment to providing insights into career development, including the helpful LinkedIn hack, has been invaluable. Your overall support throughout the course has made a significant difference in my learning experience.

Thank you so much for your dedication and encouragement. I am confident that without your guidance, the journey through this ML course would have been much more challenging.

Wishing you a future filled with continued success and new achievements. May your path be illuminated with countless victories!

Best regards,
a student,
MSBA 2024”

“Dear Lalit,

Thank you for being so understanding and being willing to help and support at all times.

It’s a pleasure for me to have you as our TA, you certainly had went above and beyond in helping and supporting us.

Thank you so much Lalit!

Sincerely,
a student”