| Christopher Bishop | |
| Birth Date: | 7 April 1959 |
| Birth Place: | Norwich, England |
| Fields: | Machine learning |
| Education: | Earlham School |
| Thesis Title: | The semi-classical technique in field theory: some applications |
| Thesis Url: | http://hdl.handle.net/1842/11984 |
| Thesis Year: | 1983 |
| Known For: | Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (PRML) book |
| Children: | 2 |
Christopher Michael Bishop (born 7 April 1959) [1] 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.
Christopher Michael Bishop was born on 7 April 1959 in Norwich, England, to Leonard and Joyce Bishop. 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, with a thesis on quantum field theory supervised by David Wallace and Peter Higgs.[2] [3]
Bishop investigates machine learning,[1] in which computers are made to learn from data and experience.[4] [5] [6] His former doctoral students include Neil Lawrence and Danielle Belgrave.
Bishop is the author of two highly cited and widely adopted machine learning text books: Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition[7] and Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning.[8] His latest book, Deep Learning, Foundations and Concepts, was published in 2023 by Springer[9] .
Bishop was awarded the Tam Dalyell prize in 2009[10] and the Rooke Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2011.[11] 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,[12] a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2007,[13] and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.[1]
Bishop married Jennifer Mary Morris in 1988. They have two sons.