Do not take this Professor at any cost. Nobody could follow anything he's doing and when it came to exam time I was extremely under prepared. the HW is not helpful and the lecture notes are a mess, the TA discussion notes are somehow worse. He doesn't post solutions for his exams so you won't have the option to review what you did wrong on the midterm while preparing for the final. I alway fall asleep during his lectures, yes they are that boring and it's all theory. There is an extra credit project that im unsure as to how much its worth but that too doesn't depend on your knowledge from this class but rather your knowledge on Python and machine learning.

Extremely overrated professor. I don't know how he is for 131A, but for 132A, all he does is mumble, scribble on the board, and make mistakes. He offers no applicable real life examples and insists in indulging in the pure mathematical theory.

His grading scale is also WAY overblown, he is not a generous grader at all...

All in all, if you are an EE student who likes think in terms of practicality, forget Lorenzelli.

Go for Villasenor, I hear he accompanies the theory with application.

This class was not as bad as some other reviews claimed, since everything could be learned if people don't mind self-studying for a bit. For my quarter, approximately 30% of students got A's, which was not bad either. However, it did seem like the extra credit project he offered was a trick to lure students in giving him better evaluations, since I am certain much more students would get an A with a 15% extra credit applied after the curve (just like he claimed). The workload was really reasonable, and the project was pretty short, so I wouldn't complain too much about it. Overall, I feel neutral about this class and this professor, and I wouldn't mind taking this class again with him.

I personally loved Lorenzelli. He is a very nice person and he really loves what he does. It is refreshing to have a professor that isn't a pompous ass.

I learned a lot from the class and found it all very interesting. I couldn't ask for more.

Professor Lorenzelli is nice and professional. He provides well written (as in organization but maybe not in handwriting) notes. He would try his best to clarify things in class, and he can be easily accessed outside of class. Perhaps more importantly, he is a very kind human being, that he would try to accommodate everybody's needs and you could always talk to him if you need anything special (ddl extensions and etc).

Very interesting class if you are into linear algebra and MATLAB, that was the cool part.

It's also a pain in the ass, homework took me anywhere from 5 to 15 hours to complete each time. Lectures are hard to keep up with, because the professor mumbles and often seems uninterested. For example about seeming uninterested, on the first day of class he suggested that if you are genuinely interested in the subject that you should drop out of the class and take it with the other prof named Vandenberghe. I think he is sort of overrated on this website, not sure how.

Anticipating I will get a B, not sure how the curve for tests goes.

Professor Lorenzelli is a sweet guy and he's really understanding of student struggles. I had him for 102 and 113, and will be taking him again for 114 because I like him so much :) He was very accommodating during COVID online learning. The online class was very well-structured, (20% homework, 40% best 4 of 5 quizzes, 40% final project). Shoutout to Alex Johnson the GOAT TA.

TAKE THIS PROFESSOR

definitely by FARRR my favorite professor I've had so far here at UCLA. Unlike many of the other EE professors who tend to be geniuses and therefore extremely conceited and unwilling to help, professor Lorenzelli himself admits that 'many of you are probably smarter than I am' and is truly concerned and passionate about teaching. Although he speaks in a soft-ish voice, which I do admit, has had me falling asleep some of the days, he is extremely approachable and a warm caring person in general. Furthermore, he is very flexible and will delay coursework to make sure that we have fully learned the material! If you ask him a question on a homework problem he will literally tell you how to solve and check your answers for you if you are having serious trouble in the class. He even gave us his # to have us text him LOL
10/10 would recommend

Professor Lorenzelli is pretty funny but sometimes he gets really annoying. His lectures was complete but he also gave us professor's Fragouli notes which I think it was way more useful . Weekly homeworks were straight forward and good practice of course material, however the biweekly quizzes were really hard, time consuming, and weighted 40% of our grade. First week of class he said we either have a take-home final or group project which we ended up with 4 question project that took lots of time and somewhat was confusing and the grading on project was horrible. Overall I wouldn't recumbent him for this class or any other classes, but take professor Fragouli at any cost.

Excellent professor. His lectures are very easy to follow and he definately knows his stuff. He is brilliant yet modest and I think he was definately one of my favorite professors at UCLA, for his knowledge, approachability, and yes, he is very nice. He could have given me an F and I'd still have no negative opinions of him.