Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Ali H. Nayfeh

American aerospace engineer1933 to 2017

Supervised 32 doctoral students and 15 master's students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University between 1978 and 2013; Wikidata names Milton Van Dyke as doctoral advisor and lists 12 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 9 other registers.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlex

Students47

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata12

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 61 people: 32 cited by thesis records, 29 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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

Sat beside the lineage23

committee member, not advisor