Ross Ihaka
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use New Zealand English Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". George Ross Ihaka (born 1954[1]) is a Māori New Zealander statistician who was an associate professor of statistics at the University of Auckland until his retirement in 2017.[2] Alongside Robert Gentleman, he is one of the creators of the R programming language.[3][4][5] In 2008, Ihaka received the Pickering Medal, awarded by the Royal Society of New Zealand, for his work on R.[6]
Education
Ihaka completed his undergraduate education at the University of Auckland, and obtained his PhD in 1985 from the University of California, Berkeley supervised by David R. Brillinger.[7] His thesis was on statistical modelling for seismic interferometry and was titled Rūaumoko, after the god of earthquakes, volcanoes and seasons in Māori mythology.[7][8][9]
Career and research
As of 2010, he was working on a new statistical programming language based on Lisp.[10][11] The Department of Statistics at the University of Auckland started a public lecture series in his honour in 2017.[12]
Personal life
Ihaka is of Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitāne and Ngati Pākehā (New Zealand European) descent.[5][13]
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