Christopher Bishop

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Christopher Bishop
FRS FRSE FREng
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Bishop in 2017
Born (1959-04-07) 7 April 1959 (age 66)
Norwich, England
EducationEarlham School
Alma mater
Known forPattern Recognition and Machine Learning (PRML) book
Spouse
Jennifer Morris
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(m. 1988)​
Children2
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Machine learning [2]
Institutions
Thesis The semi-classical technique in field theory: some applications  (1983)
Doctoral advisor
Doctoral students
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. Bishop 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.

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Early life and education

Christopher Michael Bishop was born on 7 April 1959 in Norwich, England, to Leonard and Joyce Bishop. [7] He was educated at Earlham School in Norwich, and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and later a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Edinburgh, [7] with a thesis on quantum field theory supervised by David Wallace and Peter Higgs. [3] [4]

Research and career

Bishop investigates machine learning, [8] in which computers are made to learn from data and experience. [9] [10] [11] His former doctoral students include Neil Lawrence [5] [6] and Danielle Belgrave.

Publications

Bishop is the author of two highly cited and widely adopted machine learning text books: Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition [12] and Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. [13] His latest book, Deep Learning, Foundations and Concepts, was published in 2023 by Springer. [14]

Awards and honours

Bishop was awarded the Tam Dalyell prize in 2009 [15] and the Rooke Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2011. [16] He gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2008 [1] and the Turing Lecture in 2010. Bishop was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2004, [17] a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2007, [18] and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017. [8]

Personal life

Bishop married Jennifer Mary Morris in 1988. They have two sons. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 2008 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
  2. ↑ Christopher Bishop publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  3. 1 2 "Professor Christopher Bishop elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh". University of Edinburgh School of Informatics . Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  4. 1 2 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. Lock-green.svg
  5. 1 2 Christopher Bishop at the Mathematics Genealogy Project OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  6. 1 2 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. Lock-green.svg
  7. 1 2 3 "Bishop, Prof. Christopher Michael" . Who's Who . A & C Black. 2021. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U249776.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  8. 1 2 Anon (2017). "Christopher Bishop". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society.
  9. ↑ "Microsoft Research Cambridge". Microsoft .
  10. ↑ Bishop, Christopher Michael (1995). Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition. Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780198538646.
  11. ↑ 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. S2CID   15538672.
  12. ↑ Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition (1995) [ ISBN missing ]
  13. ↑ Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/cmbishop/prml-book/ (2006) [ ISBN missing ]
  14. ↑ Deep Learning, Foundations and Concepts (2023), https://www.bishopbook.com.
  15. ↑ Tam Dalyell Prize
  16. ↑ "Royal Academy of Engineering, Rooke Medal". Archived from the original on 14 September 2021. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  17. ↑ "Royal Academy of Engineering". Archived from the original on 14 September 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  18. ↑ "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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