Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Wolfram Burgard

German roboticistborn 1961

Supervised 64 doctoral students; Wikidata names Armin B. Cremers as doctoral advisor, lists 27 doctoral students, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 9 other registers.

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Wolfram Burgard, pictured

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.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students64

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata27

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught2

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

    Boris Lau

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

    Thilo Grundmann

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 97 people: 70 cited by thesis records, 33 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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