Robert Gentleman (statistician) explained

Robert Gentleman
Birth Name:Robert Clifford Gentleman
Workplaces:Genentech
University of Washington
Harvard Medical School
University of Waterloo
The University of Auckland
Alma Mater:University of Washington
University of British Columbia
Thesis Title:Exploratory methods for censored data
Thesis Url:http://search.proquest.com/docview/303589316
Thesis Year:1988
Doctoral Advisor:John James Crowley
Known For:R (programming language)
Prizes:Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics)

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

Education

Gentleman was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of British Columbia. He was awarded a Ph.D. degree in statistics from University of Washington in 1988; his thesis title was Exploratory methods for censored data.[7]

Research and career

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.[8] 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.[9] [10] Gentleman joined personal genomics and biotechnology company 23andMe as vice president in April 2015, with the goal of bringing expertise on bioinformatics and computational drug discovery to the company. Gentleman has also served on the board of the statistical software company Revolution Analytics (formerly known as REvolution Computing).

Awards and honors

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.[11] He was made a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2014 for his contribution to computational biology and bioinformatics.[12] He became a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2017.[13]

Notes and References

  1. Gentleman . R. . Reproducible Research: A Bioinformatics Case Study . 10.2202/1544-6115.1034 . Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology . 4 . Article2 . 2005 . 16646837. 17729314 .
  2. Web site: Bioinformatics Pioneer Robert Gentleman, Ph.D., Joins 23andMe Leadership Team. 10 August 2015.
  3. Web site: Robert Gentleman on His Goals for Drug Discovery at 23andMe. 10 August 2015.
  4. Ihaka . R. . Gentleman . R. . R: A Language for Data Analysis and Graphics . Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics . 5 . 3 . 299–314 . 10.2307/1390807 . 1996 . 1390807.
  5. Web site: R, the Software, Finds Fans in Data Analysts – NYTimes.com . Ashlee Vance . Ashlee Vance . 6 January 2009 . The New York Times . 17 April 2011.
  6. Gentleman . R. C. . Carey . V. J. . Bates . D. M. . Bolstad . B. . Dettling . M. . Dudoit . S. . Sandrine Dudoit . Ellis . B. . Gautier . L. . Ge . Y. . Gentry . J. . Hornik . K. . Hothorn . T. . Huber . W. . Iacus . S. . Irizarry . R. . Leisch . F. . Li . C. . Maechler . M. . Rossini . A. J. . Sawitzki . G. . Smith . C. . Smyth . G. . Tierney . L. . Yang . J. Y. . Zhang . J. . Bioconductor: Open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics . Genome Biology . 5 . 10 . R80 . 10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80 . 2004 . 15461798. 545600 . free .
  7. PhD . Robert Clifford. Gentleman . Exploratory methods for censored data . University of Washington . 1988 . Robert Gentleman (statistician). .
  8. Web site: Wolfson. Wendy. A Bioinformatics Chief and a Gentleman. 10 August 2015.
  9. Gaudet . P. . Bairoch . A. . Amos Bairoch. Field . D. . Sansone . S. -A. . Taylor . C. . Attwood . T. K. . Terri Attwood. Bateman . A. . Alex Bateman. Blake . J. A. . Bult . C. J. . Cherry . J. M. . Chisholm . R. L. . Cochrane . G. . Cook . C. E. . Eppig . J. T. . Galperin . M. Y. . Gentleman . R. . Robert Gentleman (statistician). Goble . C. A. . Carole Goble. Gojobori . T. . Takashi Gojobori. Hancock . J. M. . Howe . D. G. . Imanishi . T. . Kelso . J. . Landsman . D. . Lewis . S. E. . Suzanna Lewis. Karsch Mizrachi . I. . Orchard . S. . Ouellette . B. F. F. . Ranganathan . S. . Richardson . L. . Rocca-Serra . P. . Towards BioDBcore: A community-defined information specification for biological databases . 10.1093/database/baq027 . . 2011 . baq027 . 2011 . 21205783 . 3017395 .
  10. Web site: Genentech: Research: Robert C. Gentleman . 2011-04-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110704153255/http://www.gene.com/gene/research/sci-profiles/bioinfo/gentleman/profile.html . 2011-07-04 . Robert C. Gentleman Senior Director: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
  11. Web site: Benjamin Franklin Award – Bioinformatics.org. 10 December 2016.
  12. Web site: ISCB Fellows. 10 August 2015.
  13. Web site: ASA Fellows list. American Statistical Association. 2017-11-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20171201042456/https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx. 2017-12-01. dead.

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