Charles E. Leiserson: advisors and students

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Charles E. Leiserson

American computer scientistborn 1953

Supervised 15 doctoral students (64 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names H. T. Kung and Jon Bentley as doctoral advisors and lists 22 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Students64

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Derrick Liang “Fast and Scalable Subgraph Learning”
2025 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Yaseen Alkhafaji “Fast Partitioning for Distributed Graph Learning using Multi-level Label Propagation”
2024 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Daniel Wisdom “Load balancing and memory optimizations for expert parallel training of large language models”
2024 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Daniel Edelman “Characterizing the Energy Requirement of Computer Vision”
2023 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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William Kuszmaul “Randomized Data Structures: New Perspectives and Hidden Surprises”
2023 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Amanda Li “BP-Tree: Overcoming the Point-Range Operation Tradeoff for In-Memory B⁺-trees”
2023 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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William S. Moses “Supercharging Programming through Compiler Technology”
2023 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Obada Alkhatib “Sampling Methods for Fast and Versatile GNN Training”
2022 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Matthew Kilgore “Fast Reducer Hyperobjects”
2022 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · level not given
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Wanlin Li “Contention Bounds for Locking Computations”
2022 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Philip Murzynowski “Optimizing Graph Neural Network Training on Large Graphs in A Distributed Setting”
2022 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Sai Sameer Pusapaty “Combining Task Parallelism and Multithreaded Concurrency”
2022 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Elizabeth Zou “Preliminary Investigation of Productivity Tools for Memory Profiling in Parallel Programs”
2022 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Helen He “Performance Engineering of Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulations”
2021 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Qi Qi “An Efficient Data Structure for Implementing Splitter Hyperobjects in Task-Parallel Systems”
2021 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Nickolas Stathas “Optimizing Graph Neural Network Training on Large Graphs”
2021 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Sean Fraser “Computing included and excluded sums using parallel prefix”
2020 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Matthew S. Hutchinson “Applying high performance computing to early fusion video action recognition”
2020 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Severyn Kozak “Chasing zero variability in software performance”
2020 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Grace Q. Yin “Parallel exception handling in Cilk”
2020 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Brian Wheatman “Image alignment and dynamic graph analytics : two case studies of how managing data movement can make (parallel) code run fast”
2019 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Helen Jiang Xu “Fill estimation for blocked sparse matrices and tensors”
2018 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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William Cleaburn Hasenplaugh “Parallel algorithms for scheduling data-graph computations”
2016 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Payut Pantawongdecha “Autotuning divide-and-conquer matrix-vector multiplication”
2016 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Warut Suksompong “Bounds on multithreaded computations by work stealing”
2014 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Tana Wattanawaroon “Local versus global tables in Minimax Game Search”
2014 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Kerry Xing “Cilkprof : a scalability profiler for Cilk programs”
2014 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Tim Kaler “Chromatic scheduling of dynamic data-graph computations”
2013 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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I-Ting Angelina Lee “Memory abstractions for parallel programming”
2012 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Tao Benjamin Schardl “Design and analysis of a nondeterministic parallel breadth-first search algorithm”
2010 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Kunal Agrawal “Scheduling and synchronization for multicore concurrency platforms”
2009 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Joey Y Zhou “Technology for facilitating and analyzing interviews in large groups”
2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Jelani Nelson “External-memory search trees with fast insertions”
2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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John Danaher “The JCilk-1 runtime system”
2005 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Jeremy T Fineman “Provably good race detection that runs in parallel”
2005 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Tushara C Karunaratna “Nondeterminator-3 : a provably good data-race detector that runs in parallel”
2005 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Timothy D. Olsen “LecTix : a lecture-multimedia player”
2005 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Jim Sukha “Memory-mapped transactions”
2005 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Siddhartha Sen “Dynamic processor allocation for adaptively parallel work-stealing jobs”
2004 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Kai Huang “Data-race detection in transactions-everywhere parallel programming”
2003 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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David B. Berman “Efficient parallel binary decision diagram construction using Cilk”
2000 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · bachelor's
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Matthew S. DeBergalis “A parallel file I/O API for Clik”
2000 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · bachelor's
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Sridhar Ramachandran “An algorithmic theory of caches”
2000 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Matteo Frigo “Portable high-performance programs”
1999 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Ching Law “A new competitive analysis of randomized caching”
1999 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Harald Prokop “Cache-oblivious algorithms”
1999 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Jeremy Sawicki “Using Cilk for parallel computation in MATLAB”
1999 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · bachelor's
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Guang-Ien Cheng “Algorithms for data-race detection in multithreaded programs”
1998 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Nate Kushman “Performance nonmonotonicites : a case study of the UltraSPARC Processor”
1998 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · bachelor's
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Igor B. Lyubashevskiy “Portable fault-tolerant file I/O”
1998 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · bachelor's
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Keith H. Randall “Cilk : efficient multithreaded computing”
1998 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Bin Song “Scheduling adaptively parallel jobs”
1998 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Andrew F. Stark “Debugging multithreaded programs that incorporate user-level locking”
1998 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · bachelor's
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Christopher F. Joerg “The Cilk system for parallel multithreaded computing”
1996 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Philip Andrew Lisiecki “Macro-level scheduling in the Cilk Network of Workstations environment”
1996 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Robert C. Miller “A type-checking preprocessor for Cilk 2, a multithreaded C language”
1995 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Robert D. Blumofe “Executing multithreaded programs efficiently”
1995 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Howard J. Lu “Heterogeneous multithreaded computing”
1995 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Sivan Avraham Toledo “Quantitative performance modeling of scientific computations and creating locality in numerical algorithms”
1995 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Bradley Clair Kuszmaul “Synchronized MIMD computing”
1994 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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James Kimbrough Park “The Monge array--an abstraction and its applications”
1991 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Shlomo Kipnis “Organization of systems with bussed interconnections”
1990 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Andrew Vladislav Goldberg “Efficient graph algorithms for sequential and parallel computers”
1987 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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F. Miller Maley “Single-layer wire routing”
1987 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata2

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H. T. Kung
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Jon Bentley

Students on Wikidata22

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Ron Pinter
born 1953
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Thomas H. Cormen
born 1956
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Andrew V. Goldberg
born 1960
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Robert D. Blumofe
born 1964
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Sivan Toledo
born 1966
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Alexander Toichi Ishii
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Bradley Clair Kuszmaul
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Bruce Maggs
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Cynthia A. Phillips
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Guy Blelloch
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I-Ting Angelina Lee
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James Kimbrough Park
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Jeremy T. Fineman
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Jim Sukha
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Keith H. Randall
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Kunal Agrawal
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Marios Papaefthymiou
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Matteo Frigo
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Ronald Irwin Greenberg
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Sandeep Nautam Bhatt
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Serge Plotkin
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Shlomo Kipnis

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stated by WikidataH. T. Kungstated by WikidataJon Bentley
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stated by WikidataDonald Ford Stanatstated by WikidataJoseph F. Traub
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stated by WikidataHenry M. Foleystated by WikidataJohn Henry Holland
4 steps up
stated by WikidataArthur Burksstated by WikidataDavid M. Dennison

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 140 people: 15 cited by thesis records, 125 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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Yale University
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Carnegie Mellon University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Coauthors in OpenAlex211

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

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Ronald L. Rivest
155 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Thomas H. Cormen
92 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Clifford Stein
88 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Olivier Engler
36 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Tao Benjamin Schardl
32 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Jeremy T. Fineman
29 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Christoph von Praun
26 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Efstratios Gallopoulos
26 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Marc Snir
26 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Don Grice
26 shared works

OpenAlex lists 201 more people who share a work with them.

At a glance

known as: computer scientist, engineer, university teacher, businessperson, mathematician
fields: mathematic, informatics, computer science
awards: Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1985, Paris Kanellakis Award, 2013, ACM Fellow, 2006, Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2015, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2013, Ken Kennedy Award, 2014
member of: Association for Computing Machinery, from 2007, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, from 2015
Wikipedia: in 15 languages

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identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaCharles E. Leiserson
stated by WikidataWikidataQ93028
stated by WikidataORCID0000-0001-6386-5552
stated by WikidataVIAF32081339
stated by WikidataGND140222847
stated by WikidataIdRef033030898
stated by WikidataISNI0000000116158118

papers

stated by WikidataDBLPl/CELeiserson
stated by WikidataScopus7004322864

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project50312

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Read on 31 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q93028,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Charles E. Leiserson: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q93028},
  note = {read on 2026-10-31}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 31). Charles E. Leiserson: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-31]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q93028