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Shankar Mahalingam

Mechanical engineering researcher; Ph.D. Stanford University 1989

Wikidata names Brian Cantwell and Joel H. Ferziger as doctoral advisors and lists 13 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 3 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata13

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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 13 people: 13 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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