Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Nicola Dell

Zimbabwean-born computer scientist, active in the United Statesborn 1981

Supervised 2 doctoral students at Cornell University in 2023; Wikidata names Linda Shapiro as doctoral advisor and names Linda Shapiro as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 6 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 OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Theses

Students2

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

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

    Linda Shapiro

The line above and below2 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 2 people: 2 cited by thesis records.

Education and career3

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

Sat beside the lineage5

committee member, not advisor