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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.

Virginia Vassilevska Williams, pictured

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Students16

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata4

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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.

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.

Coauthors in OpenAlex122

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

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Yinzhan Xu

    28 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Liam Roditty

    22 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Amir Abboud

    20 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Ryan Williams

    20 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Mina Dalirrooyfard

    19 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Nicole Wein

    18 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Yael Kirkpatrick

    13 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Josh Alman

    10 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Andrea Lincoln

    10 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Artūrs Bačkurs

    9 shared works

OpenAlex lists 112 more people who share a work with them.