Christopher Bishop
Microsoft Technical Fellow, founder of Microsoft Research AI for Science, and machine learning textbook author
- Technical Fellow and founder of Microsoft Research AI for Science, Microsoft Research1
- Honorary Professor of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh1
Christopher Bishop is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and the founder of Microsoft Research AI for Science, where Bishop oversees a global research portfolio on machine learning for the natural sciences. Bishop joined Microsoft in 1997 and was Lab Director of Microsoft Research Cambridge from 2015 until 2022, when Bishop founded the AI for Science team. Bishop wrote the machine learning textbooks Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition (1995) and Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (2006), co-authored Deep Learning: Foundations and Concepts, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2017.12
Work
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (external site: microsoft.com)Published research
Author of the 2006 textbook (Springer). Bishop's Microsoft Research book page describes it as an introduction to pattern recognition and machine learning with a Bayesian perspective, and provides chapter slides for course tutors.21
Deep Learning: Foundations and ConceptsPublished research
Co-author of this deep learning textbook, featured on Bishop's Microsoft Research page as a new book.1
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Lab Director (2015–2022), Microsoft Research Cambridge1
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