academic ancestry

Here is a short trace of my academic ancestry, traced through Ph.D. advisors as far back as I could find.

• Sameer Wagh, Ph.D., Princeton University, 2020 Dissertation: New Directions in Efficient Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
• Prateek Mittal, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, 2012 Dissertation: Trustworthy and Scalable Anonymous Communication
• Nikita Borisov, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2005 Dissertation: Anonymous Routing in Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlays
• Eric Brewer, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994 Dissertation: Portable High-Performance Supercomputing: High-Level Platform-Dependent Optimization
• William Edward Weihl, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984 Dissertation: Specification and Implementation of Atomic Data Types
• Barbara Liskov, Ph.D., Stanford University, 1968 Dissertation: A Program to Play Chess End Games
• John McCarthy, Ph.D., Princeton University, 1951 Dissertation: Projection Operators and Partial Differential Equations

Things get a little interesting here — ambiguous advisors, co-advising, and unknown advisors: Donald Clayton Spencer or Solomon Lefschetz.

• Donald Clayton Spencer, Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1939 Dissertation: On a Hardy–Littlewood Problem of Diophantine Approximation
• Solomon Lefschetz, Ph.D., Clark University, 1911 Dissertation: On the existence of loci with given singularities