Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Ping Zhang

Chinese-American information science professor (Syracuse University)

Supervised 5 doctoral students between 2013 and 2015; Wikidata names Andrew B. Whinston as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 4 other registers.

Ping Zhang, pictured

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students5

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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 11 people: 11 cited by thesis records, 1 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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