Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Mark Billinghurst

Computer scientist

Wikidata names Linda Shapiro and Thomas A. Furness III as doctoral advisors, lists 12 doctoral students, and lists 3 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

How to read the marksstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata12

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught3

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Hongzhi Gao

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Rory M. S. Clifford

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Trond Nilsen

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 15 people: 15 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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