Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Michael Athans

Greek-American control theorist/Professor:Department of Electrical Engineering/Computer Science/Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Fellow:IEEE (1973)/Fellow:AAAS(1977)1937 to 2020

Supervised 21 doctoral students (62 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Universidade Técnica de Lisboa; Wikidata names Otto J. M. Smith as doctoral advisor, lists 45 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 5 other registers.

Open the full sheetCiteData

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

Students62

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata45

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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

    Paris Kanellakis

    born 1953

The line above and below3 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 468 people: 21 cited by thesis records, 447 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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