Christopher Bishop

Chris Bishop
Born	Christopher Michael Bishop (1959-04-07) 7 April 1959 (age 58)
Residence	Cambridge
Fields	Machine learning
Institutions	University of Oxford Culham Centre for Fusion Energy AEA Technology Aston University University of Edinburgh Microsoft Research
Alma mater	University of Oxford (BA) University of Edinburgh (PhD)
Thesis	The semi-classical technique in field theory: some applications (1983)
Doctoral advisor	David Wallace
Doctoral students	Neil Lawrence
Known for	Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (PRML) book
Notable awards	FREng (2004) FRSE (2007) Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (2008) Turing Lecture (2010) FRS (2017)
Website research.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.

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.

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

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