Robert Gentleman
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Biography
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Dr. Robert Gentleman is the founding executive director of Harvard Medical School’s Center for Computational Biomedicine. An accomplished statistician and bioinformatician, Dr. Gentleman is one of the creators of the R programming language and a founder of the Bioconductor project, an open-source collaborative software tool to promote statistical analysis of biological data. He has served as vice president of 23andMe, where he helped launch their therapeutic division, and as senior director for bioinformatics and computational biology at Genentech. He was head of computational biology at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and held academic positions at Harvard University, University of Auckland and the University of Waterloo. Dr. Gentleman’s research interests are related to genomics, machine learning, data visualization, and the application of statistical and computational methods to study human disease.
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) University of Washington (1984 — 1988)
- Bachelor's Degree The University of British Columbia (1979 — 1984)
Companies
- Executive Director Harvard Medical School (2020)
- VP Computational Biology 23andMe (2015 — 2020)
- Board of Directors Revolution Analytics (2010 — 2015)
- Senior Director Genentech (2009 — 2015)
- Member Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (2005 — 2009)
- Associate Professor Harvard/DFCI (2000 — 2004)
- Senior Lecturer The University of Auckland (1996 — 2000)
- Lecturer The University of Auckland (1992 — 1996)
- Assistant Professor University of Waterloo (1988 — 1992)
Videos
Unraveling Host Genetics for Target Discovery (Robert Gentleman, Harvard Medical School
Robert Gentleman, The Importance of Software and Data
A View of the Future (Robert Gentleman)
Big Data Meets Drug Target Discovery - Robert Gentleman - Technology Tracks - ISMB ECCB 2019
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