PhD Genealogy

1. Eric Bengfort (Admitted to the PhD program in 2013, passed Research Readiness Exam in 2015)
2. Curtis Chambers (Admitted to the PhD program in 2013)
3. Violet Johnson (Admitted to the PhD program in 2014)

1. Timothy McMahan, "Real Time Assessment of a Video Game Player’s State of Mind Using Off-the-Shelf Electroencephalography", Ph. D. Dissertation, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. of North Texas, 2016.
2. Joshua Taylor, "The Procedural Generation of Interesting Sokoban Levels", Ph. D. Dissertation, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. of North Texas, 2015.
3. Jonathan Doran, "Procedural Content Generation for Role Playing Games", Ph. D. Dissertation, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. of North Texas, 2014. (Currently a Clinical Assistant Professor at UNT Frisco)
4. Dhanyu Amarasinghe, Real-time Rendering of Burning Objects in Video Games", Ph. D. Dissertation, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. of North Texas, 2013.
5. Timothy Roden, "Procedural Content Creation and Technologies for 3D Graphics Applications and Games", Ph. D. Dissertation, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. of North Texas, 2005. (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2005-2007; Chair, Dept. of Computer Science, Angelo State University, 2007-2012; Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Lamar University, since 2012.)
6. Hung-Li Tseng, "Computational Complexity of Hopfield Networks", Ph. D. Dissertation, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Univ. of North Texas, 1998. (Currently an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering at Minghsin Univ. of Science & Technology, Taiwan)
7. Zoran Obradovic, "Discrete Multi-Valued Neural Networks", Ph. D. Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Penn State, 1991. (Currently a Full Professor at Temple)
8. Peiyuan Yan, "Lower Bound Techniques in Some Parallel Models of Computation". Ph. D. Thesis, Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State, 1989. (Was an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Lycoming College, but I seem to have lost track of him.)
9. Bruce Parker, "PRAM Simulations on Bounded Degree Networks". Ph. D. Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Penn State, 1988.

The above image traces my PhD adviser "ancestors" back 33 generations to the 14th Century. I've selected a longest path from my entry in the Math Genealogy Project. See also this tree for more detail.