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Virginia Vassilevska Williams
Theoretical computer scientist
Supervised 5 doctoral students (16 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Guy Blelloch as doctoral advisor and lists 4 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 4 other registers.

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Students16
- cited by a thesis record
Vlada Petrusenko“Clustering Algorithms for Component Placement in Printed Circuit Boards”
2025 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record2022 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
- cited by a thesis record2022 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
- cited by a thesis record2022 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
- cited by a thesis record
Shyan Akmal“Longest Common Subsequence Over Constant-Sized Alphabets: Beating the Naive Approximation Ratio”
2021 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Kristin Sheridan“Graph factorization and pseudofactorization with applications to hypercube embeddings”
2021 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Nicole Spence Wein“Algorithms and Hardness for Approximating the Diameter of a Graph”
2021 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Eyob W. Woldeghebriel“Improved Runtimes and Lower Bounds for Dual-Edge Failure Replacement Path Algorithms”
2021 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Yinzhan Xu“Subcubic Min-Plus Product of Structured Matrices”
2021 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Rio LaVigne“Relationships between functionality, security, and privacy for multiparty computation, hashing, and encryption”
2020 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record2020 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Josh Alman“Linear algebraic techniques in algorithms and complexity”
2019 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Bertie Ancona“Conditional lower bounds for graph sensitivity problems”
2019 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Mina Dalirrooyfard“Tight estimation of bichromatic farthest pair in graphs and related problems”
2019 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Christine Konicki“Topics in fixing knockout tournaments : bribery, NP-hardness, and parameterization”
2019 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record2018 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
Advisors on Wikidata1
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- stated by Wikidata
Students on Wikidata4
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidata
- stated by Wikidata
- stated by Wikidata
- 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 WikidataGuy Blelloch
- 2 steps up
stated by WikidataCharles E. Leiserson
- 3 steps up
stated by WikidataH. T. Kungstated by WikidataJon Bentley
- 4 steps up
stated by WikidataDonald Ford Stanatstated by WikidataJoseph F. Traub
Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 9 people: 5 cited by thesis records, 4 stated by Wikidata.
Education and career6
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.
- 2013 to 2016worked
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