Christopher Bishop

Christopher Bishop

FRS FRSE FREng
Christopher Bishop; FRS FRSE FREng
	Bishop in 2017
Born	7 April 1959; 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) FRS FRSE FREng 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.

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