Christopher Bishop

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Chris Bishop

FRS FRSE FREng
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Chris Bishop in 2015
Born
Christopher Michael Bishop

(1959-04-07) 7 April 1959 (age 62)[1]
Norwich[1]
Alma mater
Known forPattern Recognition and Machine Learning (PRML) book
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMachine learning[3]
Institutions
ThesisThe semi-classical technique in field theory: some applications (1983)
Doctoral advisor
Doctoral students
Websitewww.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/cmbishop/

Christopher Michael Bishop (born 7 April 1959)[1] FRS FRSE FREng[7] is the Laboratory Director at Microsoft Research Cambridge, Honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.[8] Bishop is a member of the UK AI Council. He was also recently appointed to the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology.

Education[]

Bishop obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Edinburgh, with a thesis on quantum field theory supervised by David Wallace and Peter Higgs.[4][1][5]

Research and career[]

Bishop's research investigates machine learning[7] by allowing computers to learn from data and experience.[8][9][10]

Written works[]

Bishop is the author of two highly cited and widely adopted machine learning text books: Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition (1995) and Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (2006).

Awards and honours[]

Chris Bishop at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2017

Bishop was awarded the Tam Dalyell prize in 2009[11] and the Rooke Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2011.[12] He gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2008[2] and the Turing Lecture in 2010. Bishop was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2004,[13] a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2007,[14] and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Anon (2015). "BISHOP, Prof. Christopher Michael". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.249776. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b 2008 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
  3. ^ Christopher Bishop publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "Professor Christopher Bishop elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh". University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Bishop, Christopher Michael (1983). The semi-classical technique in field theory : some applications (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/11984. OCLC 59284998. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.346542. Free to read
  6. ^ "Mathematics Genealogy Project: Christopher M. Bishop". Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b c Anon (2017). "Christopher Bishop". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b "Microsoft Research Cambridge".
  9. ^ Bishop, Christopher Michael (1995). Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198538646.
  10. ^ Tipping, Michael E.; Bishop, Christopher M. (1999). "Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. 61 (3): 611–622. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.35.2022. doi:10.1111/1467-9868.00196. ISSN 1369-7412.
  11. ^ Tam Dalyell Prize
  12. ^ Royal Academy of Engineering, Rooke Medal
  13. ^ "Royal Academy of Engineering". Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  14. ^ "Professor Christopher M Bishop FREng FRSE, FRS - The Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
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