Sayan Mukherjee: advisors and students

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Sayan Mukherjee

Statistician and university professor1971 to 2025

Supervised 23 doctoral students (39 students at any level); Wikidata names Tomaso Poggio as doctoral advisor and lists 19 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 6 other registers.

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Students39

cited by a thesis record
Langxuan Su “Absolute Continuity of Singular SPDEs and Bayesian Inference on Dynamical Systems”
2023 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Michele Caprio “Advances in Choquet theories”
2022 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Henry Mikael Kirveslahti “Euler Integration with Applications to Statistical Shape Analysis and Imaging”
2022 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Kimberly Roche “Relative count data and its application: assessing the consistency of gut microbial patterns in wild baboons”
2022 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Yi Hu “Numerical Transfer Matrix Method of Next-nearest-neighbor Ising Models”
2021 · master's
cited by a thesis record
Zining Ma “An Euler Characteristic Curve Based Representation of 3DShapes in Statistical Analysis”
2021 · master's
cited by a thesis record
Anna Yanchenko “Hierarchical Time Series Modeling with Business and Audio Applications”
2021 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Didong Li “Learning and Exploiting Low-Dimensional Structure in High-Dimensional Data”
2020 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Perry Samuel Voisin “AN APPLICATION OF GRAPH DIFFUSION FOR GESTURE CLASSIFICATION”
2020 · master's
cited by a thesis record
Yuwei Xu “Construction of Objective Bayesian Prior from Bertrand’s Paradox and the Principle of Indifference”
2020 · master's
cited by a thesis record
Michael P. Casey “Linear Dimension Reduction Approximately Preserving Level-Sets of the 1-Norm”
2019 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Abbas M Zaidi “Bayesian Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis for Causal Inference”
2019 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Beau Coker “A Theory of Statistical Inference for Ensuring the Robustness of Scientific Results”
2018 · master's
cited by a thesis record
Arpita Mandan “Two Applications of Summary Statistics: Integrating Information Across Genes and Confidence Intervals With Missing Data”
2018 · master's
cited by a thesis record
Zilong Tan “Approximate Inference for High-Dimensional Latent Variable Models”
2018 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Lorin Anthony Crawford “Bayesian Kernel Models for Statistical Genetics and Cancer Genomics”
2017 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Megan Robertson “An Analysis of NBA Spatio-Temporal Data”
2017 · master's
cited by a thesis record
Anna Katherine Yanchenko “Classical Music Composition Using Hidden Markov Models”
2017 · master's
cited by a thesis record
Jaslyn Zhang “Improved Genomic Selection using Vowpal Wabbit with Random Fourier Features”
2017 · bachelor's
cited by a thesis record
Yongjian Bi “Scheduling Optimization with LDA and Greedy Algorithm”
2016 · master's
cited by a thesis record
Xi Yang “Multi-View Weighted Network”
2016 · master's
cited by a thesis record
Shiwen Zhao “New Advancements of Scalable Statistical Methods for Learning Latent Structures in Big Data”
2016 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Radhika Anand “Claims Severity Modeling”
2015 · master's
cited by a thesis record
Nicholas Walton Daniel Jarrett “Nonlinear Prediction in Credit Forecasting and Cloud Computing Deployment Optimization”
2015 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Yu Jiang “Leveraging Population Information in Family-based Rare Variant Association Analyses of Quantitative Traits”
2015 · master's
cited by a thesis record
Yue Jiang “Predicting Ligand Selectivity of Mammalian Odorant Receptors”
2015 · master's
cited by a thesis record
Brian Stephen St. Thomas “Linear Subspace and Manifold Learning via Extrinsic Geometry”
2015 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Vivek Anand Subramanian “Variational Inference for Nonlinear Regression Using Dimension Reduced Mixtures of Generalized Linear Models with Application to Neural Data”
2015 · master's
cited by a thesis record
Yi Yin “Predictive Modeling of Loss-of-Heterozygosity Events in Yeast”
2015 · master's
cited by a thesis record
John Joseph Steenbergen “Towards a Spectral Theory for Simplicial Complexes”
2013 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Lingling Zheng “Bayesian meta-analysis models for heterogeneous genomics data”
2013 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Brian D. Bennett “Integrative Genomic Modeling of Complex Traits using Pathway Analysis”
2012 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Stoyan Georgiev “Computational Methods For Functional Motif Identification and Approximate Dimension Reduction in Genomic Data”
2011 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Paul Richard Hahn “Probability Models for Targeted Borrowing of Information”
2011 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Kristian Lum “Bayesian Spatial Quantile Regression”
2010 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Justin Guinney “The Geometry of Cancer”
2009 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Simon Lunagomez “A Geometric Approach for Inference on Graphical Models”
2009 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Kai Mao “Nonparametric Bayesian Models for Supervised Dimension Reduction and Regression”
2009 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Elena Jane Edelman “Modeling Cancer Progression on the Pathway Level”
2008 · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

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stated by Wikidata
Tomaso Poggio

Students on Wikidata19

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Bei Wang Phillips
stated by Wikidata
Brad Moore
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Brian Bennett
stated by Wikidata
Brian St. Thomas
stated by Wikidata
Elena Edelman
stated by Wikidata
John Steenbergen
stated by Wikidata
Justin D Silverman
stated by Wikidata
Justin Guinney
stated by Wikidata
Kai Mao
stated by Wikidata
Lingling Zheng
stated by Wikidata
Lorin Crawford
stated by Wikidata
Michael Patrick Casey
stated by Wikidata
Natesh Pillai
stated by Wikidata
Nicholas Jarrett
stated by Wikidata
P. Richard Hahn
stated by Wikidata
Shiwen Zhao
stated by Wikidata
Simón Lunagómez
stated by Wikidata
Stoyan Georgiev
stated by Wikidata
Zilong Tan

The line above and below2 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 WikidataTomaso Poggio
2 steps up
stated by WikidataAntonio Borsellino

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 44 people: 23 cited by thesis records, 21 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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

1988 to 1992
Princeton University
studied
1992 to 1996
Columbia University
studied
1997 to 2001
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
studied
2004 to 2011
Duke University
worked
2011 to 2015
Duke University
worked
2015 to 2025
Duke University
worked
2022 to 2025
Leipzig University
worked

Coauthors in OpenAlex562

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

indexed by OpenAlex
Lawrence A. David
22 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Todd R. Golub
17 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Jenny Tung
17 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Tomaso Poggio
15 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Anil Potti
14 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Joseph Roy Nevins
14 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Michele Caprio
14 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Kimberly E. Roche
13 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Ryan M. Rifkin
12 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Justin D. Silverman
12 shared works

OpenAlex lists 552 more people who share a work with them.

At a glance

known as: statistician, computer scientist, university teacher
awards: Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2018, Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, 2022
member of: Institute of Mathematical Statistics, from 2018

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

Elsewhere8

identity

stated by WikidataWikidataQ37392297
stated by WikidataORCID0000-0002-6715-3920
stated by WikidataVIAF22157640899638220258
stated by WikidataGND1257633236

papers

stated by WikidataGoogle ScholarYPD04uIAAAAJ
stated by WikidataDBLP52/5375-1
stated by WikidataScopus35426501300

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project143104

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Read on 31 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q37392297,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Sayan Mukherjee: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q37392297},
  note = {read on 2026-10-31}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 31). Sayan Mukherjee: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-31]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q37392297