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Avrim Blum

Also known as Avrim L. Blum (OpenAlex)

American computer scientistborn 1966

Wikidata names Ron Rivest as doctoral advisor and lists 19 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata19

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below2 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 55 people: 55 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex215

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

OpenAlex lists 205 more people who share a work with them.