Connection from Immanuel Kant to Madhu Shashanka:

8 Steps:
Immanuel Kant
     |    (trained grad student)
Karl Leonhard Reinhold (University of Kiel)
     |    (trained research assistant)
Friedrich Trendelenburg (University of Berlin)
     |    (trained grad student)
Franz Brentano
     |    (trained grad student)
Carl Stumpf (Berlin School of Experimental Psychology)
     |    (trained grad student)
Wolfgang Köhler (Swarthmore College)
     |    (trained post-doc)
Richard M Held (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
     |    (trained grad student)
Barbara G Shinn-Cunningham (Boston University)
     |    (trained grad student)
Madhu Shashanka (Boston )