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Chris Bishop
Born
Christopher Michael Bishop

(1959-04-07) 7 April 1959 (age 65)[6]
Alma mater
Known forPattern Recognition and Machine Learning (PRML) book[7]
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMachine learning[3]
Institutions
ThesisThe semi-classical technique in field theory: some applications (1983)
Doctoral advisorDavid Wallace[4]
Doctoral studentsNeil Lawrence[5]
Websiteresearch.microsoft.com/~cmbishop

Christopher Michael Bishop (born 7 April 1959) FRS, FREng, FRSE, is the Laboratory Director at Microsoft Research Cambridge, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.[8][7]

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 supervised by David Wallace.[4][6][8][9][10]

Awards and honours

Bishop was awarded the Tam Dalyell prize in 2009[11] and the Rooke Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2011.[12] 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[citation needed], a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2007,[citation needed] and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.[13]


References

  1. ^ a b Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
  2. ^ "Christopher Bishop". 2017.
  3. ^ Christopher Bishop publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ a b Bishop, Christopher Michael (1983). The semi-classical technique in field theory : some applications. ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/11984. OCLC 59284998.
  5. ^ Lawrence, Neil (2001). Variational inference in probabilistic models (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
  6. ^ a b BISHOP. "BISHOP, Prof. Christopher Michael". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Unknown parameter |othernames= ignored (help) (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) (subscription required)
  7. ^ a b Bishop, Christopher M. (2006). Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (PDF). Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-31073-2.
  8. ^ a b "Microsoft Research Cambridge".
  9. ^ Bishop, Christopher Michael (1995). Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198538646.
  10. ^ Tipping, Michael E.; Bishop, Christopher M. (1999). "Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology). 61 (3): 611–622. doi:10.1111/1467-9868.00196. ISSN 1369-7412.
  11. ^ Tam Dalyell Prize
  12. ^ Royal Academy of Engineering, Rooke Medal
  13. ^ "Christopher Bishop". 2017.
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