Academic Lineage

I once attended a talk by Professor Dinesh Manocha and later explored his website, where I discovered his academic lineage. This sparked my curiosity to trace my own. I asked my academic supervisor, Lantao Liu, and was able to trace my lineage back to Rodney Brooks. Out of curiosity and respect, I emailed Professor Rodney Brooks to say hello as one of my academic ancestors. To my surprise, he kindly replied and mentioned that his academic brother, Jitendra Malik, had also traced their shared lineage. Following this chain of mentorship and scholarship, I discovered that Galileo Galilei appears as my great-20th academic grandfather.


  1. Lantao Liu
  2. Dylan Shell
  3. Maja Matarić
  4. Rodney Brooks
  5. Thomas Oriel Binford
  6. Myron Lindsay Good
  7. Henry Winston Newson
  8. William Draper Harkins
  9. Robert Eccles Swain
  10. Lafayette Benedict Mendel
  11. Russell Henry Chittenden
  12. Wilhelm Friedrich Kühne
  13. Rudolph Wagner
  14. Johann Lukas Schönlein
  15. Ignaz Döllinger
  16. Antonio Scarpa
  17. Giovan Battista Morgagni
  18. Antonio Valsalva
  19. Marcello Malpighi
  20. Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
  21. Benedetto Castelli
  22. Galileo Galilei
  23. Ostilio Ricci da Fermo
  24. Niccolò Tartaglia (Autodidact. Inspired by Al-Khwarizmi, Euclid)