Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Wai-Fah Chen

Ph.D. Brown University 1966born 1936

Supervised 1 doctoral student at University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2003; Wikidata names Daniel C. Drucker as doctoral advisor and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 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

Students1

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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

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 1 person: 1 cited by thesis records.

Education and career1

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