Outside of his research, the biggest impact directly on Ohio State has been through his ability to teach astronomy and connect with his students. He has an extremely high Rate My Professor score of 4.7. This is what some of students said about him:
“Gaudi is very passionate about astronomy and it shows. He and his beard are very inspirational to any aspiring astronomy student.”
“He is one of my favorite professors at Ohio State”.
“I really liked professor Gaudi, he was easy going and tried to make his class interesting–want to add that he discovers planets, pretty sweet!”