name known_for doctoral_students article_title prizes
robert clifford gentleman r -lrb- programming language -rrb- beiying ding robert gentleman -lrb- statistician -rrb-
 benjamin franklin award -lrb- bioinformatics -rrb-
robert gentleman -lrb- statistician -rrb-

robert clifford gentleman -lrb- born 1959 -rrb- is a canadian statistician and bioinformatician currently vice president of computational biology at 23andme .
he is recognized , along with ross ihaka , as one of the originators of the r programming language and the bioconductor project .
