A few years ago I started to track my academic genealogy. I did this because my nephew showed we how his mathematics genealogy could be traced all the way back to Leibniz, and as a sort of tribute to my Ph.D. advisor (Dave Stemple) who, at the time, was quite ill, and who died a short time later. I wanted him to know how much influence he has on me, and through all his students, the world.

Anyway, its taken me a while to acculumate all this information, and I thought some of my friends and advisees might like to see it. It came as a great surprise to me who was on my genealogy. Have fun looking it over and following the links, I had fun making it.

• Albert Abraham Michelson, NOBEL Prize Winner 1907 Physics (Dissertation unknown)
  • Robert Millikan, NOBEL Prize Winner 1923 Physics (Columbia University 1895, On the Polarization of Light Emitted from the Surfaces of Incandescent Solids and Liquids)
    • William Ross Ham (Univeristy of Chicago 1009, The Polarization of Primary X-Rays)
      • Lloyd Devore (Pennsylvania State University 1933, A Photographic method for measuring the energy distribution of radiation in the visible and ultraviolet)
        • Norman Ross Scott (MGP ID of 84481) (Illinois 1950, Some studies of oscillations in non-linear systems) electrical engineer
          • Bruce W. Arden (UMich 1965, On the cubical covering problem) biography.
            • Robert Walker Taylor (UMich 1971, Generalized data base management system data structures and their mappingto physical storage)
              • Dave Stemple (UMass 1977, A database management facility and architecture for the realization of data independence)
                • Charles Welty (UMass 1979, A comparison of a procedural and a nonprocedural query language: syntactic metrics and human factors)
                • Mohammad Dadashzadeh (UMass 1985, On estimation of the cost of relational query evaluation plans )
                • Tim Sheard (UMass 1985, Proving the consistency of database transactions)
                  • Walid Taha (OGI 1999, Multistage programming: Its theory and applications)
                    • Rajarshi Bandyopadhyay (Rice 2008, Compiling dynamic languages via statically typed functional languages)
                    • Cherif Salama (Rice 2010, Static analysis for circuit families)
                  • Emir Pasalic (OGI 2004, The Role of Type Equality in Meta-programming)
                  • Nathan Mishra-Linger (PSU 2008, Irrelevance, Polymorphism, and Erasure in Type Theory)
                  • Chuan-Kai Lin (PSU 2010, Practical ype Inference for the GADT Type Sytem)
                  • Ki Yung Ahn (PSU 2014, The Nax Language : unifying Functional Programming and Logical Reasoning in a Language Based upon Mendler Style Recursion Schemes and Term-Indexed Types).
                • Steve Vinter (UMass 1985, Co-Advised with Krithi Ramamritham)
                • Ralph Bunker (UMass 1986, A method for compiling efficient constraint checks in database )
                • Subhasish Mazumdar (UMass 1991, Enhancing database integrity and security through feedback to designers)
                  • Majed AbuSafiya (NMTech 2008)
                • Leonidas Fegaras (UMass 1993, A transformational approach to database system implementation)
                  • Sujoe Bose (UTA 2005)
                  • Weimin He (UTA 2008)

  If you have any additions or updates to this, please send me them and I will update this page.