Ernest Davis: Academic Family Tree

• Father (i.e. thesis advisor): Drew McDermott
• Grandfather: Gerry Sussman
• Great-grandfather: Marvin Minsky
  For further ancestors, look at The Mathematics Genealogy Project, which traces this line back to Erasmus and beyond.
• Children:
  • Leora Morgenstern. "Foundations of a Logic of Knowledge, Action, and Communication."
  • Leo Joskowicz. "Reasoning about Shape and Kinematic Function in Mechanical Devices"
  • Pasquale Caianiello. "Learning as the Evolution of Representation."
  • Alexander Botta. "A Theory of Natural Learning."
  • Jen-Lung Chiu. "Planning in an Imperfect World Using Previous Experiences."
  • Tim Klinger. "Adversarial Reasoning: A Logical Approach for Computer GO."
  • Gedas Adomavicius. "Expert-Driven Validation of Set-Based Data Mining Results" (nominal co-advisor with Alex Tuzhilin).
    
  • Ji-Ae Shin. ``TM-LPSAT: Encoding Temporal Metric Planning in Continuous Time.'' Now a book!
  • Tatiana Kichkaylo. (co-advisor with Vijay Karamcheti). ``Construction of Component-Based Applications by Planning.''
  • Ziyang Wang. ``Incremental Web Search: Tracking Changes in the Web.''
• Grandchildren:
  • Lynn Andrea Stein (from Morgenstern)
  • Yaron Ostrovsky-Berman (from Joskowicz)
• Great-grandchildren:
  • Ian Horswill (from Stein)
  • Ellen Spertus (from Stein)
  • Joanna Bryson (from Stein)
• Great-great-grandchildren:
  • Jon Handler (from Horswill)
    
  • Aaron Khoo (from Horswill)
    
  • Magy Seif El-Nasr (from Horswill)
    
  • Emmanuel Tanguy (from Bryson)
  • Mark Wood (from Bryson)
  • Hagen Lehman (from Bryson)
  • Marios Richards (from Bryson)
• Great-great-great-grandchild:
  • Joseph Zupko (from Seif El-Nasr).

Masters' Theses Supervised

• Yanai Lehavi, ``Charlie: A Treaty Reinsurance Underwriter".
• Kumar Shashi Prabh, ``Performance of BLACKBOX Planning System on a Hard Problem of Satisfiability", May 2001.
• Paul Bethe,     ``DTAC: A method for planning to claim in Bridge." May 2010. DTAC code is here
• Azam Asl (NYU Poly), "A Qualitative Calculus for 3D Rotations," December 2011.
• Emily Morton-Owens , "A tool for extracting and indexing spatio-temporal information from biographical articles in Wikipedia". May 2012. The link for Kivrin

My advisees are impressively international in terms of country of birth: USA (Leora, Tim, Paul, Emily), Mexico (Leo), Italy (Pasquale), Romania (Alex), Taiwan (Jen-Lung, Ziyang), Korea (Ji-Ae), Russia (Tatiana), Israel (Yanai), India (Kumar), and Iran (Azam).