Christopher Michael Bishop (born 7 April 1959) is the Laboratory Director at Microsoft Research Cambridge, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.
Education
Graphical Models 1 - Christopher Bishop - MLSS 2013 Tübingen - This is Christopher Bishop's first talk on Graphical Models, given at the Machine Learning Summer School 2013, held at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, in Tübingen, Germany,...
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 supervised by David Wallace.
Research and career
Bishops research investigates machine learning by allowing computers to learn from data and experience. His doctoral students include Neil Lawrence.
Awards and honours
Bishop was awarded the Tam Dalyell prize in 2009 and the Rooke Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2011. He gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2008 and the Turing Lecture in 2010. Bishop was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2004, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2007, and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.
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