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Alexander S. Kechris
Greek-American mathematicianborn 1946
Supervised 24 doctoral students at California Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Yiannis N. Moschovakis as doctoral advisor and lists 23 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 8 other registers.

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Students24
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Michael Solomon Wolman“Invariant Combinatorics on Borel Equivalence Relations”
2025 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Forte Shinko“Descriptive Set Theory and Dynamics of Countable Groups”
2022 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record2021 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Ruiyuan Chen“Definability and Classification of Equivalence Relations and Logical Theories”
2018 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Connor George Walmsley Meehan“Definable Combinatorics of Graphs and Equivalence Relations”
2018 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Peter J. Burton“Approximation and Classification in the Ergodic Theory of Nonamenable Groups”
2017 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
William Chan“Aspects of Definability for Equivalence Relations”
2017 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Robin Daniel Tucker-Drob“Descriptive Set Theory and the Ergodic Theory of Countable Groups”
2013 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Todor Dimitrov Tsankov“Amenability, Countable Equivalence Relations, and Their Full Groups”
2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Tzer-jen Wei“Descriptive Properties of Measure Preserving Actions and the Associated Unitary Representations”
2005 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Janet Mary Pavelich“Commuting Equivalence Relations and Scales on Differentiable Functions”
2002 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Nikolaos Efstathiou Sofronidis“Topics in descriptive set theory related to equivalence relations, complex borel and analytic sets”
1999 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record1998 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Haseo Ki“Topics in descriptive set theory related to number theory and analysis”
1995 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Slawomir J. Solecki“Applications of descriptive set theory to topology and analysis”
1995 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Achim Ditzen“Definable equivalence relations on Polish spaces”
1992 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
George Kafkoulis“Homogeneous sequences of cardinals for ordinal definable partition relations”
1990 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Carlos Uzcátegui“Smooth sets for borel equivalence relations and the covering property for σ-ideals of compact sets”
1990 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Renato Feres“Geodesic Flows on Manifolds of Negative Curvature with Smooth Horospheric Foliations”
1989 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jack Harold Lutz“Resource-Bounded Category and Measure in Exponential Complexity Classes”
1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Taje Indrallal Ramsamujh“Some Topics in Descriptive Set Theory and Analysis”
1986 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Ilias George Kastanas“The Ramsey Property and Degrees in the Analytical Hierarchy”
1981 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Arthur Leonard Rubin“Free Algebras in Von Neumann-Bernays-Gӧdel Set Theory and Positive Elementary Inductions in Reasonable Structures”
1978 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Students on Wikidata23
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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.
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stated by WikidataYiannis N. Moschovakis
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stated by WikidataStephen Cole Kleene
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stated by WikidataAlonzo Church
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stated by WikidataOswald Veblen
Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 86 people: 24 cited by thesis records, 62 stated by Wikidata.
Education and career2
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Michael Solomon Wolman“Invariant Combinatorics on Borel Equivalence Relations”
committee member · 2025 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ismail Abouamal“Bost–Connes–Marcolli System for the Siegel Modular Variety”
committee member · 2024 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Forte Shinko“Descriptive Set Theory and Dynamics of Countable Groups”
committee member · 2022 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 2021 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Pooya Vahidi Ferdowsi“Strongly Amenable Groups, Choquet-Deny Groups, and the Infinite Conjugacy Class Property”
committee member · 2020 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ruiyuan Chen“Definability and Classification of Equivalence Relations and Logical Theories”
committee member · 2018 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Connor George Walmsley Meehan“Definable Combinatorics of Graphs and Equivalence Relations”
committee member · 2018 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Peter J. Burton“Approximation and Classification in the Ergodic Theory of Nonamenable Groups”
committee member · 2017 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
William Chan“Aspects of Definability for Equivalence Relations”
committee member · 2017 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Brian Paul Skinner“Logarithmic Potential Theory on Riemann Surfaces”
committee member · 2015 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Padraic James Bartlett“Completions of ε-Dense Partial Latin Squares”
committee member · 2013 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 2013 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Robin Daniel Tucker-Drob“Descriptive Set Theory and the Ergodic Theory of Countable Groups”
committee member · 2013 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Todor Dimitrov Tsankov“Amenability, Countable Equivalence Relations, and Their Full Groups”
committee member · 2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Tzer-jen Wei“Descriptive Properties of Measure Preserving Actions and the Associated Unitary Representations”
committee member · 2005 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Janet Mary Pavelich“Commuting Equivalence Relations and Scales on Differentiable Functions”
committee member · 2002 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Nikolaos Efstathiou Sofronidis“Topics in descriptive set theory related to equivalence relations, complex borel and analytic sets”
committee member · 1999 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Frances Yvonne Jackson“Sun-Dual Characterizations of the Translation Group of ℝ”
committee member · 1998 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Themistoklis Mitsis“On a Problem in Geometric Measure Theory Related to Sphere and Circle Packing”
committee member · 1998 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 1996 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Lada Popovic“Finite state codes and generalized De Bruijn sequences”
committee member · 1991 · California Institute of Technology · level not given - cited by a thesis record
Kenneth Rose“Deterministic annealing, clustering, and optimization”
committee member · 1991 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Renato Feres“Geodesic Flows on Manifolds of Negative Curvature with Smooth Horospheric Foliations”
committee member · 1989 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kai Hauser“Independence Results for Indescribable Cardinals”
committee member · 1989 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Maria Elena Verona“Generic Differentiability of Convex Functions and Monotone Operators”
committee member · 1989 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Gregory Jude Hungerford“Boundaries of Smooth Sets and Singular Sets of Blaschke Products in the Little Bloch Class”
committee member · 1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Jack Harold Lutz“Resource-Bounded Category and Measure in Exponential Complexity Classes”
committee member · 1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jerald Bruce Schilling“Experimental and Theoretical Aspects of Hydrocarbon Activation by Transition Metal Ions in the Gas Phase”
committee member · 1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Peyyun Peggy Li“A Parallel Execution Model for Logic Programming”
committee member · 1986 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Taje Indrallal Ramsamujh“Some Topics in Descriptive Set Theory and Analysis”
committee member · 1986 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Ivo Klemes“I. Idempotent Multipliers of H¹ on the Circle. II. A Mean Oscillation Inequality for Rearrangements”
committee member · 1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Yaser Said Abu-Mostafa“Complexity of Information Extraction”
committee member · 1983 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Marina Chien-mei Chen“Space-time Algorithms: Semantics and Methodology”
committee member · 1983 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Bruce Michael Ian Rands“Maximal Cliques in Graphs Associated with Combinatorial Systems”
committee member · 1982 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral