Academic Ancestry

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Sanjoy K. Mitter

Indian American control theorist1933 to 2023

Supervised 23 doctoral students (35 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names John Westcott as doctoral advisor and lists 21 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 7 other registers.

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Students35

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata21

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 115 people: 23 cited by thesis records, 92 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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