Christopher Bishop

Chris Bishop
Born	Christopher Michael Bishop (1959-04-07) 7 April 1959
Alma mater	University of Oxford (BA) University of Edinburgh (PhD)
Known for	Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (2008)
Awards	FREng (2004) FRSE (2007) Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (2008) Turing Lecture (2010)
Scientific career
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
Thesis	The semi-classical technique in field theory: some applications (1983)
Doctoral advisor	David Wallace Peter Higgs
Doctoral students	Neil Lawrence
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.

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.

Works

• Bishop, Christopher M. (2006). Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (PDF). Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-31073-2.

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)