Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Bonnie Berger

American mathematician and computer scientist

Supervised 36 doctoral students and 25 master's students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1996 and 2026; Wikidata names Silvio Micali as doctoral advisor, lists 22 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Bonnie Berger, 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.

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

Students61

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata22

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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

    Manolis Kellis

    born 1977

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 109 people: 36 cited by thesis records, 73 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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