Tree of Robert Floyd's students for the Computer History Exhibits

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Professor Robert W Floyd (1965 CMU, moved to Stanford 1967, retired 1994, deceased 2002)

    year-of-PhD Name (last known location, email)
    At Carnegie-Mellon
  1. 1968 Zohar Manna with Alan Perlis (Stanford University)
  2. 1968 Jay Earley (UC Berkeley; )
  3. 1969 James C. King (IBM Research)
    At Stanford University
  4. 1971 Robert Tarjan (1972 Cornell, 1973 UC Berkeley, 1974 Stanford, 1980 AT&T Bell Labs, 1985 Princeton)
      Professor Tarjan, (see also SIGACT Genealogy)
      At Stanford
    1. 1978 Jacobo Valdes (Princeton, Ductus)
        Professor Valdez, Princeton
      1. 1982 Jerry Spinrad ()
    2. 1979 Thomas Lengauer (Univ. of Saarbrucken, Germany)
        Prof. Lengauer, Univ. of Saarbrucken, Germany
      1. ?
    3. 1980 Gregory Nelson (?)
    4. 1980 Bengt Aspvall (Cornell Univ., Univ.Bergen, Blekinge Inst. of Technology)
        Professor Aspvall, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
      1. 1992 Sven-Olai Høyland (Bergen University College <sven-olai.hoyland at hib.no>)
      2. 1993 Fredrik Manne (University of Bergen <fredrikm at ii.uib.no>)
          Prof. Manne, Univ.Bergen
        1. 2003 Assefaw Hadish Gebremedhin (<assefaw at cs.odu.edu>)
        2. 2009 Morten Mjelde (Tobii Technology <morten.mjelde at gmail.com >)
        3. 2011 Johannes Langguth (<Johannes.Langguth at ii.uib.no>)
        4. 2011 Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary (< Mostofa.Patwary at ii.uib.no>)
      3. 1996 Pinar Heggernes (Univ. Bergen <Pinar.Heggernes at ii.uib.no>)
          Prof. Heggernes, Univ.Bergen, Norway
        1. 2006 Yngve Villanger (Univ.Bergen, <Yngve.Villanger at ii.uib.no>)
        2. 2008 Federico Mancini (Univ.Bergen, <Federico.Mancini at ii.uib.no>)
        3. 2009 Daniel Lokshtanov (Univ.Bergen, <Daniel.Lokshtanov at ii.uib.no>)
        4. 2010 Rodica Mihai (Univ.Bergen, <Rodica.Mihai at ii.uib.no>)
        5. 2012 Jesper Nederlof (University of Bergen <jesper.nederlof at ii.uib.no>)
    5. 1981 Daniel Sleator (CMU <sleator+ at cs.cmu.edu>)
        Professor Sleator, CMU
      1. 1987 Lyle McGeogh with Merrick Furst
      2. 1988 Rex Dwyer
      3. 1988 Victor Milenkovic
    6. 1981 John R. Gilbert (Cornell, PARC, UCSD, UCSB, <Gilbert at cs.ucsb.edu> )
        Professor Gilbert, at Cornell
      1. 1985 Anders Edenbrandt (AU-System Radio, Sweden)
      2. 1986 Raimund Seidel (UC Berkeley)
          Professor Seidel
        1. Jeff Erickson (UIUC)
            2. Professor Erickson
          1. 2002 Alper Üngör, coadvisor with Shang-Hua Teng (U. Florida, Gainesville)
          2. 2005 Shripad Thite (TU Eindhoven)
          3. 2006 David Bunde (Knox College)
        2. Nina Amenta (UT, UC Davis <amenta AT cs.ucdavis.edu >)
            Professor Amenta, UC Davis
          1. 2003 Sunghee Choi (KAIST)
      3. 1987 Earl Zmijewski (< eez AT fluent.com >)
      4. 1988 Hjalmtyr Hafsteinsson (Univ. of Iceland)
        at UC Santa Barbara
      5. 2007 Viral Shah ( < >)
      6. 2010 Aydin Buluc ( < aydinbuluc AT gmail.com >)
    7. 1981 Donald Woods
    8. 1982 Samuel Bent (Wisconsin)
        Professor Bent, Univ. Wisconsin
      1. 1986 M.A. Sridhar

      9. At NYU
    9. 1986 Neil Sarnakat

      10. At Princeton
    10. 1987 Joan Lucas - with A. S. LaPaugh
    11. 1989 Warren Smith - with J. H. Conway
    12. 1989 Jeffrey Westbrook
    13. 1991 Heather Booth
    14. 1991 Xiaofeng Han
    15. 1991 Neal Young
    16. 1993 Adam L. Buchsbaum
    17. 1993 Brandon Dixon
    18. 1993 Monika Rauch Henzinger (married Tom Henzinger, in Zohar Manna and Rivest line)
    19. 1993 Ramesh Sitaraman
    20. 1994 Lesley R. Matheson
    21. 1997 Haim Kaplan
    22. 1997 Peter Yianilos
    23. more 1999 ?
  5. David Plaistad
  6. 1974 Ronald L. Rivest (MIT)
      Professor Rivest, MIT
    1. 1980 Andrea LaPaugh ()
    2. 1980 Errol Lloyd ()
    3. 1982 Robert Sloan ()
      4. 1982 Ron Pinter ()
    4. 1985 Benny Chor ()
    5. 1987 Alan T. Sherman ()
    6. 1988 Burton Kaliski ()
    7. 1990 Sally Goldman (Washington Un.)
        Professor Goldman
      1. David Mathias (Ohio State <dmath at cis.ohio-state.edu>)
      2. Stephen Scott (<sscott at cse.unl.edu>)
    8. 1991 Avrim Blum ()
    9. 1991 Robert E. Schapire (ATT; )
    10. 2002 Anna Lysyanskaya (Brown)
  7. 1987 Richard Beigel Co-advisor, with John Gill (Yale; Temple Univ.)
      Professor Beigel
      At Yale
    1. 1992 Nick Reingold
    2. 1996 William Hurwood
    3. 1992 Bin Fu
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