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Scott Aaronson
American quantum computing researcher (1981-)born 1981
Supervised 2 doctoral students (9 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Umesh Vazirani as doctoral advisor, lists 5 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 7 other registers.

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Students9
- cited by a thesis record
Daniel Grier“Three complexity classification questions at the quantum/classical boundary”
2019 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Luke Schaeffer“Computation in models inspired by near-term quantum devices”
2019 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Saeed Mehraban“Computational complexity of certain quantum theories in 1+1 dimensions”
2015 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Siyao Xu“Reversible logic synthesis with minimal usage of ancilla bits”
2015 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Adam Yedidia“A relatively small turing machine whose behavior is independent of set theory”
2015 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Shalev Ben David“The structure of promises in quantum speedups”
2014 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Alex Arkhipov“Extending and characterizing quantum magic games”
2012 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Michael Andrew Forbes“Tensor rank : some lower and upper bounds”
2011 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Andrew Donald Drucker“PCPs for Arthur-Merlin games and communication protocols”
2010 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
Advisors on Wikidata1
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Students on Wikidata5
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
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Taught1
Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.
- a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervisionborn 2000
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 WikidataUmesh Vazirani
- 2 steps up
stated by WikidataManuel Blum
- 3 steps up
stated by WikidataMarvin Minsky
- 4 steps up
stated by WikidataAlbert W. Tucker
Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 8 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 6 stated by Wikidata.
Education and career6
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.
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