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Alex Pentland

American academic and entrepreneurborn 1952

Supervised 7 doctoral students and 15 master's students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1990 and 2025; Wikidata names Whitman Richards as doctoral advisor and lists 12 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Alex Pentland, pictured

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

Students22

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata12

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 104 people: 7 cited by thesis records, 97 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.