The professor Norma Palomino A.K.A Norma Estela Grubb at Syracuse is the worst I have ever had. She is consistently late, occasionally skips class, and only emails excuses after 30 minutes. This happened twice in 10 live classes the course had. She expects students to be professional data scientists, demanding assignments like from a IT company's data science team, and reduces grades if they don't meet her high expectations. How much effort you put in, it is very difficult to get an A or A+. Despite this, she's not perfect â often late in grading, and calls out students to present their asynchronous sessions questions that they have answered. IST 707 Applied Machine Learning course was very stressful because of this professor. If you seek learning and fair grading based on effort, avoid choosing this instructor.