Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

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.

Scott Aaronson, pictured

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

Students9

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata5

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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 supervision

    Ewin Tang

    born 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.

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.