Robert Gentleman (statistician)

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For the British water polo player, see Robert Gentleman.

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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]

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

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  1. ↑ Robert Gentleman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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  11. ↑ Robert Gentleman's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
  12. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
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  16. ↑ http://www.gene.com/gene/research/sci-profiles/bioinfo/gentleman/profile.html Robert C. Gentleman Senior Director: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
  17. ↑ http://www.bioinformatics.org/franklin/
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