COM SCI 298
Research Seminar: Computer Science
Seminar.
Fall 2025: 69 sections. 65 sections are open. The oldest of these readings was about 1 month ago.
Grades
Graded S/U, so there is no average to report.
Graded S/U: 109 records over 10 terms.
In the A range
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no letter grades in the record to count
D, F or W
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Taken pass/no pass
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this course is graded S/U, not pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them.
Historical grades for ABARI, OMID, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
No grade history is available for this professor in this course.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CONG, JINGSHENG JASON reviews ↗ | S/U | 109 S/U | 10 | - | - | Closed |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
In Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, two to four hours; outside study, four to eight hours. Designed for graduate computer science students. Discussion of advanced topics and current research in algorithmic processes that describe and transform information: theory, analysis, design, efficiency, implementation, and application. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 69 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Distefano, J.
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Fletcher, A.
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Halperin, E.
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Heckerman, D.E.
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Jacobson, V.
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Kay, A.C.
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Osher, S.J.
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Pearl, J.
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Scalzo, F.
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Soatto, S.
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Srivastava, M.B.
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Van der Schaar, M.
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Zhu, S.
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Yang, Y.
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Sem 67 Time TBAClosed by the department
Gao, M.
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Kao, J.C.
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Sem 69 Time TBAClosed by the department
Tian, Y.
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 10 and 12 a term over 10 terms, summer excluded, most recently 12 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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Seats over time in Fall 2025
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 69 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Sem 1 · Abari, O. · 2 of 10 enrolled
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Both readings say 2 of 10.
Sem 2 · Batista, S. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 3 · Chang, K. · 2 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 4 · Cho, J. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 5 · Cong, J.J. · 12 of 12 enrolled
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Sem 6 · Darwiche, A.Y. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 7 · Distefano, J. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 8 · Eggert, P.R. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 9 · Ernst, J. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 10 · Eskin, E. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 11 · Fletcher, A. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 12 · Gafni, E.M. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 13 · Grover, A. · 2 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 14 · Gu, Q. · 5 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 15 · Halperin, E. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 16 · Heckerman, D.E. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 17 · Hsieh, C. · 1 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 18 · Jacobson, V. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 19 · Kadambi, A. · 1 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 20 · Kay, A.C. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 21 · Kim, M. · 3 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 22 · Kleinrock, L. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 23 · Law, A. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 24 · Lu, S. · 2 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 25 · Meka, R. · 1 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 26 · Millstein, T.D. · 3 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 27 · Mirzasoleiman, B. · 1 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 28 · Nachenberg, C.S. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 29 · Nowatzki, A.J. · 3 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 30 · Osher, S.J. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 31 · Ostrovsky, R. · 1 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 32 · Palsberg, J. · 1 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 33 · Pau, G. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 34 · Pearl, J. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 35 · Peng, N. · 2 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 36 · Potkonjak, M. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 37 · Ramezani, R. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 38 · Reiher, P.L. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 39 · Reinman, G.D. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 40 · Sahai, A. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 41 · Sankararaman, S. · 4 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 42 · Sarrafzadeh, M. · 2 of 10 enrolled
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Both readings say 2 of 10.
Sem 43 · Scalzo, F. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 44 · Sherstov, A. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 45 · Smallberg, D.A. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 46 · Soatto, S. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 47 · Srivastava, M.B. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Both readings say 0 of 10.
Sem 48 · Sun, Y. · 8 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 49 · Tamir, Y. · 1 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 50 · Terzopoulos, D. · 4 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 51 · Van den Broeck, G. · 2 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 52 · Van der Schaar, M. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 53 · Varghese, G. · 1 of 10 enrolled
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Both readings say 1 of 10.
Sem 54 · Wang, W. · 7 of 10 enrolled
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Both readings say 7 of 10.
Sem 55 · Xu, H. · 1 of 10 enrolled
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Both readings say 1 of 10.
Sem 56 · Zhang, L. · 2 of 10 enrolled
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Both readings say 2 of 10.
Sem 57 · Zhou, B. · 2 of 10 enrolled
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Both readings say 2 of 10.
Sem 58 · Zhu, S. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Both readings say 0 of 10.
Sem 59 · Kurtz, K. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 60 · Cui, Y. · 2 of 10 enrolled
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Both readings say 2 of 10.
Sem 61 · Gabriel, S. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 62 · Kumar, S. · 0 of 10 enrolled
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Sem 63 · Wang, R. · 1 of 10 enrolled
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Both readings say 1 of 10.
Sem 64 · Jun, E. · 1 of 10 enrolled
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Both readings say 1 of 10.
Sem 65 · Yang, Y. · 3 of 10 enrolled
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Both readings say 3 of 10.
Sem 66 · Tine, B. · 2 of 10 enrolled
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Both readings say 2 of 10.
Sem 67 · Gao, M. · -
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Sem 68 · Kao, J.C. · -
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Sem 69 · Tian, Y. · -
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Both readings say 0 seats.
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.