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David Forsyth

South African American computer scientist

Supervised 9 doctoral students and 8 master's students at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign between 2015 and 2025; Wikidata names Michael Brady as doctoral advisor and lists 13 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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David Forsyth, pictured

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Students17

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata13

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 44 people: 9 cited by thesis records, 35 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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

Sat beside the lineage44

committee member or committee chair, not advisor