Robert Gentleman (statistician)
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| Robert Clifford Gentleman | |
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| Born | 1959 (age 64–65)[citation needed] |
| Institutions | Genentech University of Washington Harvard University The University of Auckland |
| Alma mater | University of Washington University of British Columbia |
| Thesis | Exploratory methods for censored data (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | John James Crowley[1] |
| Doctoral students | Beiying Ding[2] Denise Scholtens[3] Alain C. Vandal [4] |
| Known for | R (programming language) |
| Notable awards | Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics) |
| Website www |
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Robert Clifford Gentleman (born 1959) is a Canadian statistician and bioinformatician[5] currently vice president of computational biology at 23andMe.[6][7] He is recognized, along with Ross Ihaka, as one of the originators of the R programming language [8][9] and the Bioconductor project.[10][11][12]
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Education
Gentleman was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of British Columbia.[6] He was awarded a Ph.D. degree in Statistics from University of Washington in 1988; his thesis title was Exploratory methods for censored data.[13]
Research
Gentleman worked as a statistics professor at The University of Auckland in the mid 1990's, where he developed the R programming language alongside Ross Ihaka.[8][14] In 2001, he started work on the Bioconductor project to promote the development of open-source tools for bioinformatics and computational biology. In 2009, Gentleman joined the Genentech biotechnology corporation, where he worked as a senior director in bioinformatics and computational biology.[15][16] Gentleman joined personal genomics and biotechnology company 23andMe as vice president in April 2015,[6] with the goal of bringing expertise on bioinformatics and computational drug discovery to the company.[7] Gentleman has also served on the board of the statistical software company Revolution Analytics (formerly known as REvolution Computing).[14]
Awards
Gentleman won the Benjamin Franklin Award in 2008, recognising his work on the R programming language, the Bioconductor project and his commitment to data and methods sharing.[17] He was made a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2014 for his contribution to computational biology and bioinformatics.[18]
References
- ↑ Robert Gentleman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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- ↑ Robert Gentleman's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
- ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
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- ↑ http://www.gene.com/gene/research/sci-profiles/bioinfo/gentleman/profile.html Robert C. Gentleman Senior Director: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
- ↑ http://www.bioinformatics.org/franklin/
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