Robert L. Grossman, PhD, is the Frederick H. Rawson Distinguished Service Professor in Medicine and Computer Science and the Jim and Karen Frank Director of the Center for Translational Data Science at the University of Chicago. He joined the faculty in 2010 and served as the chief research informatics officer of the Biological Sciences Division from 2011-2024.  He is also the Chief of the Section of Biomedical Data Science in the Department of Medicine.

He is the principal investigator for the National Cancer Institute Genomic Data Commons (GDC), a platform for the cancer research community that manages, analyzes, integrates, and shares large-scale genomic datasets in support of precision medicine. The GDC is used by more than 100,000 researchers each month.  He has also built data commons to support research in other areas, including cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases and medical imaging.  His research interests include data science, AI, and machine learning.

He is the founder and a partner at Analytic Strategy Partners, which helps companies develop AI strategies, and a Director of the Open Commons Consortium (OCC), which is a not-for-profit that manages and operates data commons and data meshes to advance scientific and biomedical research.

He served as a member of the NOAA Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) from 2017-2024 and as a member of the Frederick National Laboratory Advisory Committee (FNLAC) from 2014-2021.  He earned his PhD in applied mathematics at Princeton University and an AB in mathematics from Harvard University.