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Kai-Wen Lan

Mathematicianborn 1979

Supervised 2 doctoral students; Wikidata names Richard Taylor as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 5 other registers.

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Students2

cited by a thesis record
Shengkai Mao “Compactifications of closed subschemes of integral models of Hodge-type Shimura varieties with parahoric level structures”
2024 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Peihang Wu “Arithmetic Compactifications of Integral Models of Shimura Varieties of Abelian Type”
2024 · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

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stated by Wikidata
Richard Taylor

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.

1 step up
stated by WikidataRichard Taylor
2 steps up
stated by WikidataAndrew Wiles
3 steps up
stated by WikidataJohn H Coates
4 steps up
stated by WikidataAlan Baker

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 2 people: 2 cited by thesis records.

Education and career5

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

2008 to 2012
Princeton University
worked
2012 to 2015
University of Minnesota
worked
from 2015
University of Minnesota
worked
undated
Harvard University
studied
undated
University of Minnesota
worked

At a glance

known as: mathematician

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere7

identity

stated by WikidataWikidataQ19960253
stated by WikidataORCID0000-0003-0795-220X
stated by WikidataVIAF252536406
stated by WikidataGND1034372947
stated by WikidataIdRef171006321
stated by WikidataISNI0000000127682214

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project140127

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Read on 30 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q19960253,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Kai-Wen Lan: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q19960253},
  note = {read on 2026-10-30}
}

apa

Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 30). Kai-Wen Lan: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-30]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q19960253