Academic Ancestry

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Alon Orlitsky

Information theoristborn 1958

Wikidata names Abbas El Gamal as doctoral advisor and lists 1 doctoral student. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 3 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata1

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 1 person: 1 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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