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Jane Hillston

Also known as Jane Elizabeth Hillston (OpenAlex)

British computer scientistborn 1963

Supervised 19 doctoral students at The University of Edinburgh and University of Edinburgh. College of Science and Engineering. School of Informatics. between 1997 and 2026; doctorate at The University of Edinburgh in 1994; Wikidata names Julian Charles Bradfield and Robert J. Pooley as doctoral advisors and lists 8 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Theses1

Students19

Advisors on Wikidata2

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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 29 people: 20 cited by thesis records, 10 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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Works1

1994 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?

What their ORCID record lists

The works their own ORCID record lists, as they claim them: shown apart from the record's works, never checked or counted with them.

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Coauthors in OpenAlex198

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Stephen T. Gilmore

    72 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Luca Bortolussi

    22 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Federica Ciocchetta

    15 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Vashti C. Galpin

    15 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Leı̈la Kloul

    13 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Marina Ribaudo

    12 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Murray Cole

    10 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Michele Loreti

    10 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Maria Luisa Guerriero

    10 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Mirco Tribastone

    9 shared works

OpenAlex lists 188 more people who share a work with them.