| Sándor Kovács | Graduate Advisor. |
| Karen Smith | Postdoctoral Advisor. |
| Mel Hochster | He met with me regularly when I was at Michigan. He also was Karen's advisor. |
| János Kollár | My academic grandfather. |
| Michael Van Opstall | Sándor's, first student. He's currently at the University of Utah. |
| Davis Doherty | Another graduate of Sándor's (my year). |
| Zachary Treisman | Another recent graduate of Sándor's (my year). |
| Kelly Jabbusch | A student of Sándor's (she graduated the year after me). |
| Travis Kopp | A student of Sándor's a couple years behind me. |
| Kevin Tucker | A student of Karen's who I used to chat with regularly. A frequent collaborator. |
| Shunsuke Takagi | A collaborator with similar interests. |
| Wenliang Zhang | A postdoc at the University of Michigan who I talk with frequently. We have written several papers together. |
| Manuel Blickle | A former student of Karen's who also works with some characteristic p > 0 notions. We've written several papers together. |
| Osamu Fujino | I've written a paper with him on non-lc ideal sheaves. |
| Lance Miller | I've written a paper on F-pure rings with him. |
| Neil Epstein | We have a paper together on a variant of tight closure. |
| Mordechai Katzman | We have a paper together, and another project in process. |
| Jen-Chieh Hsiao | We have a paper together with Wenliang Zhang. |
| Zsolt Patakfalvi | A recent student of Sándor's. Now a postdoc at Princeton. We have several projects together. |
| Mircea Mustaţă | We have a couple papers together. |
| Shrawan Kumar | We have a paper together. |
| Paolo Cascini | We have a paper together. |
| Christopher Hacon | We have a paper together. |
| Anurag Singh | We have a couple papers together. |