Christopher Bishop

Chris Bishop
Born	Christopher Michael Bishop 7 April 1959[1]
Residence	Cambridge, UK
Fields	Machine learning Neural networks Pattern recognition Natural language processing
Institutions	University of Oxford Culham Centre for Fusion Energy AEA Technology Aston University University of Edinburgh Microsoft Research
Alma mater	University of Oxford (BA) University of Edinburgh (PhD)
Thesis	The semi-classical technique in field theory: some applications (1983)
Doctoral advisor	David Wallace Peter Higgs[2]
Doctoral students	Neil Lawrence[3]
Known for	Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (2008)[4]
Notable awards	FREng (2004) FRSE (2007) Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (2008)[5] Turing Lecture (2010)
Website research.microsoft.com/~cmbishop

Christopher Michael Bishop (born 7 April 1959) FREng, FRSE, is the Laboratory Director at Microsoft Research Cambridge and professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.^[6]

Education

Chris 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. ^[1][6]

References

1. BISHOP, Prof. Christopher Michael. Who's Who 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
2. Christopher Bishop at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. Lawrence, Neil (2001). Variational inference in probabilistic models (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
4. "Christmas Lectures 2008 - Hi-tech Trek by Christopher Bishop".
5. Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
6. "Microsoft Research Cambridge".

External links

• Tam Dalyell Prize
• Royal Academy of Engineering, Rooke Medal
• Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition (Oxford University Press, 1995)
• Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Springer, 2006)