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Yurii Nesterov
Russian mathematicianborn 1956
Supervised 7 doctoral students at UCLouvain; Wikidata names Boris Polyak as doctoral advisor and lists 4 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 9 other registers.

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Students7
- cited by a thesis record
Michel Baes“Spectral functions and smoothing techniques on Jordan algebras”
2026 · UCLouvain · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Nikita Doikov“New second-order and tensor methods in convex optimization”
2026 · UCLouvain · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Yvan Hachez“Convex optimization over non-negative polynomials : structured algorithms and applications”
2026 · UCLouvain · doctoral - cited by a thesis record2026 · UCLouvain · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Anton Rodomanov“Quasi-Newton methods with provable efficiency guarantees”
2026 · UCLouvain · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
- cited by a thesis record
Vincent Traag“Algorithms and dynamical models for communities and reputation in social networks”
2026 · UCLouvain · doctoral
Advisors on Wikidata1
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidata
Students on Wikidata4
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidataborn 1978
- stated by Wikidataborn 1982
- stated by Wikidataborn 1983
- stated by Wikidata
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 WikidataBoris Polyak
- 2 steps up
stated by WikidataYuliy Schreider
- 3 steps up
stated by WikidataIsrael Gelfand
- 4 steps up
stated by WikidataAndrey Kolmogorov
Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 11 people: 7 cited by thesis records, 4 stated by Wikidata.
Education and career3
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.
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