Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Brian Curless

Ph.D. Stanford University 1997

Wikidata names Marc Levoy as doctoral advisor, lists 10 doctoral students, and lists 3 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 2 other registers.

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Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

How to read the marksstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlex

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata10

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught3

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Qi Shan

    born 1983
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Ankit Gupta

    born 1986
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    R. Alex Colburn

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 10 people: 10 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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