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Samuel Madden

American computer scientistborn 1976

Supervised 8 doctoral students and 54 master's students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 2005 and 2026; Wikidata names Joseph M. Hellerstein and Michael Franklin as doctoral advisors and lists 7 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 4 other registers.

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Students62

Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata7

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Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 17 people: 8 cited by thesis records, 9 stated by Wikidata.

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