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Janak H. Patel

Indian American professor of electrical engineeringborn 1948

Supervised 24 doctoral students and 1 student of a level not given at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign between 1982 and 2005; Wikidata names Edward S. Davidson as doctoral advisor and lists 19 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 2 other registers.

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Students25

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata19

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 48 people: 24 cited by thesis records, 24 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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

Sat beside the lineage2

committee member, not advisor