W. Kent Fuchs: advisors and students

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W. Kent Fuchs

American university president, provost, professor of electrical engineeringborn 1954

Supervised 18 doctoral students at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; doctorate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985; Wikidata names Jacob A. Abraham as doctoral advisor and lists 8 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

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Students18

cited by a thesis record
Kuo-Feng Ssu “Heterogeneous and Mobile Recovery”
2000 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Nuno F. Neves “Time-Based Coordinated Checkpointing”
1998 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Vamsi Boppana “State Information-Based Solutions for Sequential Circuit Diagnosis and Testing”
1997 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Srikanth Venkataraman “Simulation- and Deduction-Based Techniques for Fault Diagnosis”
1997 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Ismed D.S. Hartanto “Diagnostic test set evaluation and enhancement”
1996 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Shyh-Kwei Chen “Compiler-assisted debugging and multiple instruction retry”
1994 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Kenneth Edward Kubiak “Symbolic techniques for VLSI test and diagnosis”
1994 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Paul George Ryan “Compressed and dynamic fault dictionaries for fault isolation”
1994 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
N.J. Alewine “Compiler-Assisted Multiple Instruction Rollback Recovery Using a Read Buffer”
1993 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Paul Peichuan Chen “Periodic Application of Concurrent Error Detection in Processor Array Architectures”
1993 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Antoine Nagib Mourad “Redundant Disk Arrays in Transaction Processing Systems”
1993 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Yi-Min Wang “Space reclamation for uncoordinated checkpointing in message-passing systems”
1993 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Junsheng Long “Checkpoint-based forward recovery using lookahead execution and rollback validation in parallel and distributed systems”
1992 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Weiping Shi “Design, analysis and reconfiguration of defect-tolerant VLSI and parallel processor arrays”
1992 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Ming-Feng Chang “Design, diagnosis and reconfiguration of defect-tolerant VLSI”
1991 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Chung-Chi Li “Compiler-assisted rollback recovery”
1991 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Craig Brian Stunkel “TRAPEDS address tracing and its application to multicomputer cache performance analysis”
1990 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Kun-Lung Wu “Memory management and rollback recovery in parallel architectures”
1990 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

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stated by Wikidata
Jacob A. Abraham

Students on Wikidata8

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Ismed D. S. Hartanto
stated by Wikidata
Kenneth Edward Kubiak
stated by Wikidata
Kuo-Feng Ssu
stated by Wikidata
Nuno F. Neves
stated by Wikidata
Shyh-Kwei Chen
stated by Wikidata
Vamsi Boppana
stated by Wikidata
Weiping Shi
stated by Wikidata
Yi-Min Wang

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.

1 step up
stated by WikidataJacob A. Abraham
2 steps up
stated by WikidataEdward J. McCluskey
3 steps up
stated by WikidataSamuel Hawks Caldwell
4 steps up
stated by WikidataVannevar Bush

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 29 people: 18 cited by thesis records, 11 stated by Wikidata.

Theses1

cited by a thesis record
Concurrent Error Detection in Vlsi Systems Through Structure Encoding (Fault Tolerance, Self-Checking)
1985 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral · Electrical Engineering · the thesis's own page ›

Education and career8

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Duke University
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
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Miami Killian High School
studied
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Trinity International University
studied
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Cornell University
worked
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Purdue University
worked
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University of Florida
worked

Works1

1985 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?

cited by Illinois IDEALS's record
Concurrent Error Detection in Vlsi Systems Through Structure Encoding (Fault Tolerance, Self-Checking)
1985 · doctoral thesis · Illinois IDEALS

At a glance

known as: engineer, university teacher, computer scientist
awards: ACM Fellow, 2000, IEEE Fellow, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2010
member of: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Association for Computing Machinery, from 2000
Wikipedia: in 3 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere6

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaKent Fuchs
stated by WikidataWikidataQ7945770
stated by WikidataVIAF215368048
stated by WikidataGND172668824

papers

stated by WikidataDBLPf/WKentFuchs

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project41389

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Read on 3 November 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q7945770,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{W. Kent Fuchs: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q7945770},
  note = {read on 2026-11-03}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, November 3). W. Kent Fuchs: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-11-03]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q7945770