Academic Ancestry

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Wenliang Du

Chinese-American professor of electrical engineering and computer science

Supervised 12 doctoral students and 2 master's students between 2006 and 2024; Wikidata names Gene Spafford and Mikhail Atallah as doctoral advisors and lists 8 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Students14

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata8

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 25 people: 12 cited by thesis records, 13 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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