Academic Ancestry

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Hugh Herr

American bioengineerborn 1964

Supervised 10 doctoral students, 24 master's students, and 14 bachelor's students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 2005 and 2026; Wikidata names Thomas A. McMahon as doctoral advisor and lists 1 doctoral student. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 6 other registers.

Hugh Herr, pictured

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

Students48

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below3 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 11 people: 10 cited by thesis records, 1 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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