Robert Gentleman (statistician)
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Robert Clifford Gentleman (born 1959) is a Canadian statistician and bioinformatician[2] 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.[3][4] Gentleman is recognized, along with Ross Ihaka, as one of the originators of the R programming language[5][6] and the Bioconductor project.[7][8]
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Robert Gentleman | |
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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[1] |
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