Biography:Robert Gentleman (statistician)
Robert Clifford Gentleman | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1959 (age 64–65)[citation needed] |
| 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 University The University of Auckland |
| Thesis | Exploratory methods for censored data (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | John James Crowley[1] |
Robert Clifford Gentleman (born 1959) is a Canadian statistician and bioinformatician[2] currently vice president of computational biology at 23andMe.[3][4] He is recognized, along with Ross Ihaka, as one of the originators of the R programming language[5][6] and the Bioconductor project.[7][8][9]
Education
Gentleman was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of British Columbia.[3] He was awarded a Ph.D. degree in Statistics from University of Washington in 1988; his thesis title was Exploratory methods for censored data.[10]
Research
Gentleman worked as a statistics professor at The University of Auckland in the mid 1990s, where he developed the R programming language alongside Ross Ihaka.[5][11] 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.[12][13] Gentleman joined personal genomics and biotechnology company 23andMe as vice president in April 2015,[3] with the goal of bringing expertise on bioinformatics and computational drug discovery to the company.[4] Gentleman has also served on the board of the statistical software company Revolution Analytics (formerly known as REvolution Computing).[11]
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.[14] He was made a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2014 for his contribution to computational biology and bioinformatics.[15] He became a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2017.[16]
References
- ↑ Robert Gentleman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Gentleman, R. (2005). "Reproducible Research: A Bioinformatics Case Study". Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 4: Article2. doi:10.2202/1544-6115.1034. PMID 16646837. http://biostats.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=bioconductor.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Bioinformatics Pioneer Robert Gentleman, Ph.D., Joins 23andMe Leadership Team". http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bioinformatics-pioneer-robert-gentleman-phd-joins-23andme-leadership-team-300059876.html. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Robert Gentleman on His Goals for Drug Discovery at 23andMe". http://www.bio-itworld.com/2015/5/19/robert-gentleman-his-goals-drug-discovery-23andme.html. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ihaka, R.; Gentleman, R. (1996). "R: A Language for Data Analysis and Graphics". Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 5 (3): 299–314. doi:10.2307/1390807.
- ↑ Ashlee Vance (6 January 2009). "R, the Software, Finds Fans in Data Analysts - NYTimes.com". New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
- ↑ Gentleman, R. C.; Carey, V. J.; Bates, D. M.; Bolstad, B.; Dettling, M.; Dudoit, S.; Ellis, B.; Gautier, L. et al. (2004). "Bioconductor: Open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics". Genome Biology 5 (10): R80. doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80. PMID 15461798.
- ↑ {{DBLP}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
- ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic
- ↑ Gentleman, Robert Clifford (1988). Exploratory methods for censored data (PhD thesis). University of Washington. Cite has empty unknown parameter:
|1=(help) - ↑ 11.0 11.1 Wolfson, Wendy. "A Bioinformatics Chief and a Gentleman". http://www.bio-itworld.com/issues/2010/may-june/gentleman.html. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ↑ Gaudet, P. (2011). "Towards BioDBcore: A community-defined information specification for biological databases". Database 2011: baq027. doi:10.1093/database/baq027. PMID 21205783.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20110704153255/http://www.gene.com/gene/research/sci-profiles/bioinfo/gentleman/profile.html. Retrieved 2011-04-17. Robert C. Gentleman Senior Director: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
- ↑ "Benjamin Franklin Award - Bioinformatics.org". http://www.bioinformatics.org/franklin/. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
- ↑ "ISCB Fellows". http://www.iscb.org/iscb-fellows-program. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ↑ "ASA Fellows list". American Statistical Association. http://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx. Retrieved 2017-11-02.
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