Biography:Christopher Bishop

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Christopher Bishop

FRS FRSE FREng
Bishop in 2017
Born (1959-04-07) 7 April 1959 (age 67)
Norwich, England
EducationEarlham School
Alma mater
Known forPattern Recognition and Machine Learning (PRML) book
Spouse(s)
Jennifer Morris (m. 1988)
Children2
Awards
  • Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (2008)[1]
  • Turing Lecture (2010)
Scientific career
FieldsMachine learning[2]
Institutions
ThesisThe semi-classical technique in field theory: some applications (1983)
Doctoral advisor
Doctoral students
  • Neil Lawrence[5][6]
  • Danielle Belgrave
Websitewww.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.[7]

Early life and education

Christopher Michael Bishop was born on 7 April 1959 in Norwich, England, to Leonard and Joyce Bishop.[8] 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,[8] with a thesis on quantum field theory supervised by David Wallace and Peter Higgs.[3][4]

Research and career

Bishop investigates machine learning,[9] in which computers are made to learn from data and experience.[10][11][12] 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[13] and Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning.[14] His latest book, Deep Learning, Foundations and Concepts, was published in 2023 by Springer.[15]

Awards and honours

Bishop was awarded the Tam Dalyell prize in 2009[16] and the Rooke Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2011.[17] 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,[18] a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2007,[19] and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.[9]

Personal life

Bishop married Jennifer Mary Morris in 1988. They have two sons.[8]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 2008 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
  2. ↑ {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Professor Christopher Bishop elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh". University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/news/chrisbishopfrse.html. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 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. Free to read
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Christopher Bishop at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 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 2003-04-18. Free to read
  7. ↑ https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/council-for-science-and-technology/about/membership
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 ",". Who's Who. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. 2021. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U249776. https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U249776.  (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Anon (2017). "Christopher Bishop". London: Royal Society. https://royalsociety.org/people/christopher-bishop-13381/. 
  10. ↑ "Microsoft Research Cambridge". https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/cmbishop/. 
  11. ↑ Bishop, Christopher Michael (1995). Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198538646. 
  12. ↑ Tipping, Michael E.; Bishop, Christopher M. (1999). "Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B 61 (3): 611–622. doi:10.1111/1467-9868.00196. ISSN 1369-7412. 
  13. ↑ Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition (1995) [ISBN missing]
  14. ↑ Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/cmbishop/prml-book/ (2006) [ISBN missing]
  15. ↑ Bishop, Christopher M. (2023). Deep Learning, Foundations and Concepts. Springer. https://www.bishopbook.com/. 
  16. ↑ Tam Dalyell Prize
  17. ↑ "Royal Academy of Engineering, Rooke Medal". http://www.raeng.org.uk/news/news-releases/2011/May/world-leading-engineer-set-to-collect-top-prize. 
  18. ↑ "Royal Academy of Engineering". https://www.raeng.org.uk/news/news-releases/2011/May/world-leading-engineer-set-to-collect-top-prize. 
  19. ↑ "Professor Christopher M Bishop FREng FRSE, FRS - The Royal Society of Edinburgh" (in en-GB). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/christopher-bishop/. 



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