I remember Indranil Gupta. He was my professor for Distributed Systems in college. He was also my academic advisor but that's just a symbolic thing at my college. Kinda like an "ask this professor stuff about the CS curriculum at this school if you feel like it" arrangement.

He had early lectures but made them fun so I ended up not minding it. If the Coursera follows the same curriculum, I remember it being a pretty comprehensive introduction.