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Jeffrey Vitter

Also known as Jeffrey Scott Vitter (OpenAlex)

American computer scientistborn 1955

Wikidata names Donald Knuth as doctoral advisor and lists 15 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 9 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata15

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 15 people: 15 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career10

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex205

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

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Rahul Shah

    45 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Wing-Kai Hon

    37 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Lars Arge

    32 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Sharma V. Thankachan

    19 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Hongwei Huo

    19 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Rakesh D. Barve

    18 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Min Wang

    17 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Paul G. Howard

    17 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Edward F. Grove

    15 shared works
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    Roberto Tamassia

    15 shared works

OpenAlex lists 195 more people who share a work with them.