Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Dan Zacharia

Ph.D. Brandeis University 1981

Supervised 3 doctoral students between 2011 and 2026; Wikidata names Maurice Auslander as doctoral advisor and lists 4 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 3 other registers.

Open the full sheetCiteData

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlex

Students3

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata4

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 7 people: 3 cited by thesis records, 4 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

Sat beside the lineage2

committee member, not advisor