Academic Ancestry

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Xuming He

Chinese-American statistician

Supervised 21 doctoral students at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign between 2000 and 2012; Wikidata names Douglas G. Simpson and Stephen Portnoy as doctoral advisors and lists 29 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Xuming He, pictured

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.

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Students21

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata29

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 75 people: 21 cited by thesis records, 54 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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

Sat beside the lineage10

committee member or committee chair, not advisor