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Russell L. Tedrake

American roboticist and professor

Supervised 2 doctoral students, 7 master's students, and 4 bachelor's students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 2007 and 2025; doctorate in engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004 under H. Sebastian Seung; Wikidata names Sebastian Seung as doctoral advisor and lists 7 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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Theses1

Advisors1

The thesis record names H. Sebastian Seung; Wikidata names Sebastian Seung.

  • cited by a thesis record

    H. Sebastian Seung“Applied optimal control for dynamically stable legged locomotion”

    2004 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral

Students13

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata7

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 15 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 13 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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

Works1

2004 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?