Christopher Bishop

Christopher Bishop
FRS FRSE FREng
Christopher Bishop FRS FRSE FREng
	Bishop in 2017
Born	7 April 1959 (age 65); Norwich, England
Education	Earlham School
Alma mater	St Catherine's College, Oxford (BA); University of Edinburgh (PhD);
Known for	Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (PRML) book
Spouse	Jennifer Morris (m. 1988)
Children	2
Awards	Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (2008); Turing Lecture (2010);
	Scientific career
Fields	Machine learning
Institutions	University of Oxford; Culham Centre for Fusion Energy; AEA Technology; Aston University; University of Edinburgh; Microsoft Research;
Thesis	The semi-classical technique in field theory: some applications (1983)
Doctoral advisor	Peter Higgs; David Wallace;
Doctoral students	Neil Lawrence; Danielle Belgrave;
Website	www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/cmbishop/

Christopher Michael Bishop (born 7 April 1959) is a British computer scientist. He is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and Director of Microsoft Research AI4Science. He is also Honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. Chris was a founding member of the UK AI Council, and in 2019 he was appointed to the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology.

^ 2008 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
^ Christopher Bishop publications indexed by Google Scholar
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^ Christopher Bishop at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ Lawrence, Neil David (2000). Variational Inference in Probabilistic Models (PDF). thelawrences.net (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 894596569. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.621104. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 April 2003.

[xmas-1] 2008 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

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[nphd-6] Lawrence, Neil David (2000). Variational Inference in Probabilistic Models (PDF). thelawrences.net (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 894596569. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.621104. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 April 2003.

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Christopher Bishop FRS FRSE FREng
Bishop in 2017
Born	(1959-04-07) 7 April 1959 (age 65) Norwich, England
Education	Earlham School
Alma mater	St Catherine's College, Oxford (BA) University of Edinburgh (PhD)
Known for	Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (PRML) book
Spouse	Jennifer Morris (m. 1988)
Children	2
Awards	Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (2008)^[1] Turing Lecture (2010)
Scientific career
Fields	Machine learning^[2]
Institutions	University of Oxford Culham Centre for Fusion Energy AEA Technology Aston University University of Edinburgh Microsoft Research
Thesis	The semi-classical technique in field theory: some applications (1983)
Doctoral advisor	Peter Higgs^[3] David Wallace^[4]
Doctoral students	Neil Lawrence^[5]^[6] Danielle Belgrave

Website	www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/cmbishop/