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Guruswami Ravichandran

Indian American professor of aerospace and mechanical engineeringborn 1959

Supervised 41 doctoral students, 1 bachelor's student, and 2 students of a level not given at California Institute of Technology between 1994 and 2026; Wikidata names Rodney J. Clifton as doctoral advisor and lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Students44

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata3

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 53 people: 41 cited by thesis records, 12 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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

Sat beside the lineage263

committee member, not advisor

and 63 more, all on the full sheet