Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Sebastian Seung

American physicistborn 1966

Supervised 1 doctoral student, 1 master's student, and 1 bachelor's student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 2004 and 2009; Wikidata names David Robert Nelson as doctoral advisor and lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 7 other registers.

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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.

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Students3

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata3

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 17 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 16 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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