Ancestry

Here is a short trace of my academic ancestry as far back as I could find.

Academic Ancestry

• 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: Ambigious 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