Academic Lineage

Here is a table with my 10 most-recent academic ancestors:

	Name	Fields of Study	Dissertation	University	Year	Advisor
0	Luca Soldaini	Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval	The Knowledge and Language Gap in Medical Information Seeking	Georgetown University	2018	Nazli Goharian
1	Nazli Goharian	Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing	A Sparse Matrix Approach for Information Retrieval	Florida Institute of Technology	2001	Tarek El-Ghazawi
2	Tarek El-Ghazawi	Distributed Systems	Theory and Design of a Real-Time Motion Detection Computer System	New Mexico State University	1988	Gerald M. Flachs
3	Gerald M. Flachs	Computer Vision	Stability and Cut Points of Probabilistic Automata	Michigan State University	1967	J. S. (James Sutherland) Frame
4	J. S. (James Sutherland) Frame	Mathematics	The Theory of Tables of Group Characteristics	Harvard University	1933	Heinrich Wilhelm Brinkma
5	Heinrich Wilhelm Brinkmann	Mathematics	Contribution to the Theory of Riemann Spaces	Harvard University	1925	George David Birkhoff
6	George David Birkhoff	Mathematics	Asymptotic Properties of Certain Ordinary Differential Equations with Applications to Boundary Value and Expansion Problems	University of Chicago	1907	E. H. (Eliakim Hastings) Moore
7	E. H. (Eliakim Hastings) Moore	Mathematics	Extensions of Certain Theorems of Clifford and Cayley in the Geometry of n Dimensions	Yale University	1885	H. A. (Hubert Anson) Newton
8	H. A. (Hubert Anson) Newton	Astronomy, Mathematics	n/a ¹	Yale University	1850	Michel Chasles
9	Michel Chasles	Mathematics	n/a ²	École Polytechnique	1814	Siméon Denis Poisson
10	Siméon Denis Poisson	Mathematics	n/a ³	École Polytechnique	1800	Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace

Academic genealogy prior to Poisson can be explored on the Math Genealogy project.

¹ After obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree from Yale University, H.A. Newton did not pursue a Ph.D., as no American university offered a doctoral degree in 1850 (Batterson 2008). In correspondence with Yale treasurer and librarian Edward Herrick, he notes attending Michel Chasles lectures in 1855 at Sorbonne University, and mentions them as highly influential. Following the Math Genealogy Project, I have included Chasles as his advisor. Fun fact: when H.A. Newton joined Yale as faculty in 1855, he was the only professor in Mathematics at the university.

² Michel Chasles does not seem to have published a dissertation; Michel and Smadja (2021) indicate that his first published work was “Aperçu historique sur l’origine et le développement des méthodes en géométrie” in 1837.

³ Soon after starting his university studies in 1798, Poisson was noted by Lagrange and Laplace, who became his mentors (Connor and Robertson 2002). He graduated early in 1800, was hired as teaching assistant (répétiteur). In 1802, he was named deputy professor at the École Polytechnique in 1802.