Christopher M. Bishop

Christopher Michael Bishop (born 7 April 1959) is a British computer scientist. He is a Microsoft technical fellow and firector 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.

Early life and education 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,

Research and career Bishop investigates machine learning, in which computers are made to learn from data and experience. His former doctoral students include Neil Lawrence and Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. His latest book, Deep Learning, Foundations and Concepts, was published in 2023 by Springer.

Awards and honours 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 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2007, and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.

Personal life Bishop married Jennifer Mary Morris in 1988. They have two sons.