Academic Ancestry

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Ali Farhadi

Computer engineer

Wikidata names David Forsyth as doctoral advisor, lists 11 doctoral students, and lists 4 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 4 other registers.

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Ali Farhadi, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata11

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught4

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

    Junyuan Xie

    born 1991
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Daniel Gordon

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Hessam Bagherinezhad

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Minjoon Seo

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 11 people: 11 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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