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David Shmoys

American mathematicianborn 1959

Supervised 4 doctoral students (5 students at any level) at Cornell University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Eugene Lawler as doctoral advisor and lists 28 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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David Shmoys, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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

Students5

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata28

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 93 people: 4 cited by thesis records, 89 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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

Sat beside the lineage10

committee member, not advisor