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Luc Devroye

Belgian computer scientistborn 1948

Supervised 1 doctoral student and 10 master's students at McGill University between 1992 and 2026; Wikidata names Terry John Wagner as doctoral advisor and lists 6 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Luc Devroye, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata6

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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.

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