Ross Ihaka

Ross Ihaka
Ihaka at the 2010 New Zealand Open Source Awards
Residence	Auckland, New Zealand
Fields	Statistical Computing
Institutions	University of Auckland
Alma mater	University of Auckland University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	Ruaumoko (1985)
Doctoral advisor	David R. Brillinger
Known for	R programming language
Notable awards	Pickering Medal (2008)

George Ross Ihaka (Ngāti Kuhungunu and Ngāti Pākehā, born 1954) is an Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Auckland who is recognized, along with Robert Gentleman, as one of the originators of the R programming language.

He obtained his doctorate in 1985 from the University of California, Berkeley, supervised by David R. Brillinger. He received the Royal Society of New Zealand's Pickering Medal in 2008 for his work on R. As of 2010, he was working on a new statistical programming language based on Lisp.