ECE-623
QUANTUM INFORMATION THEORY
Offered Fall 2026
Term
Overview
Feedback is mostly positive. The strongest signal is that teaching clarity stands out. Best for students who want a structured class rather than chaos.
DepartmentELEC&CMP
Terms offeredFall
Typical enrollment11–16
Semesters of data3
6.0
Hrs / week
22
Responses
39
Enrollment
56%
Response Rate
Evaluation Scores
Overall quality
Teaching, content, and experience combined.
4.4
Intellectually stimulating
Challenges students to think deeply.
4.5
Instructor effectiveness
Explains concepts and facilitates learning.
4.6
Difficulty
Higher means harder.
3.7
Feedback Analysis
Feedback Analysishigh
Analysis based on student evaluations
Based on 36 comments across 3 sections
Feedback is mostly positive. The strongest signal is that teaching clarity stands out. Best for students who want a structured class rather than chaos.
Student Reports
How hard is the A?
A is doable but not automatic
The signal here is more do-the-work-and-you-should-be-fine than easy-A chatter. Students do not describe the A as automatic, but the evidence also does not paint grading as punishing.
Homework Load
Moderate homework load
Homework load looks moderate. The recurring signal is steady weekly work, but not a course that turns every assignment into a grind.
Lecture Load
Regular lecture load
Lectures matter here, but the evidence points to a fairly standard lecture burden rather than a course dominated by long or exceptionally dense lectures.
Strengths
• Teaching clarity stands out; students repeatedly say the material is explained clearly and effectively.
Tradeoffs
• There is no single dominant complaint theme, but the feedback is not uniformly glowing either.
Best fit for
Best for students who want a structured class rather than chaos.
Watch out for
• A large share of the evidence comes from one instructor's version of the course, so this may not generalize cleanly.
Student Responses
Quantum concepts applied to information theory Quantum channels Density state formalism and related concepts
Fall 2023 · Iman Marvian Mashhad
Quantum Channel Entropy Entanglement
Fall 2023 · Iman Marvian Mashhad
Various mathematical techniques useful to analyzing quantum processes and viewing physical processes through the lens of quantum information.
Fall 2023 · Iman Marvian Mashhad
* The course was well structured, giving me a good understanding of how to present many of these topics. * Learned interesting, and useful, mathematical facts thanks to the assignment sets and proofs presented in class. * The challenging assignments also gave interesting insights to QIT.
Fall 2023 · Iman Marvian Mashhad
1. Choi matrix and how it can be used to study a quantum channel (e.g., determining whether it is entanglement-breaking) 2. characterization of qubit channels using the Bloch sphere 3. trace distance and how it is always decreasing under applications of a quantum channel
Fall 2023 · Iman Marvian Mashhad
Rating History
Rating history
Error bars show \u00B11 std dev
| Term | Instructor | Overall | Difficulty | Hrs/wk | Enrolled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2025 | Iman Marvian Mashhad | — | — | 6.1 | 16 |
| Fall 2024 | Iman Marvian Mashhad | 4.6 | 3.8 | 5.6 | 11 |
| Fall 2023 | Iman Marvian Mashhad | 4.3 | 3.6 | 6.3 | 12 |
Instructor
Also teaches
PHYSICS-380 INT TO QUANTUM INFORMATION SCI4.3