My Academic Ancestry
My academic ancestry traces my mentorship lineage back to Friedrich Leibniz. The numbering begins with Friedrich Leibniz as 1 and follows the lineage toward the present.
| No. | Mentor | Highest documented degree | University | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Friedrich Leibniz | Magister philosophiae | University of Leipzig | 1622 |
| 2 | Jakob Thomasius | Magister philosophiae | University of Leipzig | 1643 |
| 3 | Otto Mencke | Magister artium | University of Leipzig | 1664 |
| 4 | Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen | Magister philosophiae | University of Leipzig | 1685 |
| 5 | Christian August Hausen | Dr. phil. (Theology) | University of Wittenberg | 1713 |
| 6 | Abraham Gotthelf Kästner | Magister artium | University of Leipzig | 1737 |
| 7 | Johann Friedrich Pfaff | Dr. phil. (Mathematics) | Hohe Karlsschule, Stuttgart | 1788 |
| 8 | Carl Friedrich Gauss | Dr. phil. (Mathematics) | University of Helmstedt | 1799 |
| 9 | Johann Benedict Listing | Dr. phil. (Mathematics) | University of Göttingen | 1834 |
| 10 | Edward Leamington Nichols | Dr. phil. (Physics) | University of Göttingen | 1879 |
| 11 | Frederick Bedell | Ph.D. in Physics (Electricity) | Cornell University | 1892 |
| 12 | Herbert J. Reich | Ph.D. in Physics (Experimental Physics) | Cornell University | 1928 |
| 13 | Peter M. Schultheiss | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering(Signal Processing) | Yale University | 1952 |
| 14 | Subbarayan Pasupathy | Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Science (Signal Processing) | Yale University | 1972 |
| 15 | Frank R. Kschischang | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Coding and Information Theory) | University of Toronto | 1991 |
| 16 | Yongyi Mao | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Information Theory) | University of Toronto | 2003 |