Robert Gentleman (statistician)
Robert Gentleman | |
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Gentleman in 2020 | |
| Born | Robert Clifford Gentleman |
| Alma mater | University of Washington University of British Columbia |
| Known for | R (programming language) |
| Awards | Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Genentech University of Washington Harvard Medical School University of Waterloo The University of Auckland |
| Thesis | Exploratory methods for censored data (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | John James Crowley |
Robert Clifford Gentleman (born 1959) is a Canadian statistician and bioinformatician who is currently the founding executive director of the Center for Computational Biomedicine at Harvard Medical School. He was previously the vice president of computational biology at 23andMe. Gentleman is recognized, along with Ross Ihaka, as one of the originators of the R programming language and the Bioconductor project.