 Chris Bishop
Deputy Managing Director
Microsoft Research Cambridge
Microsoft Corp.
Chris Bishop is a deputy
managing director at Microsoft Research Cambridge, where
he helps with the strategic direction and planning for
the lab, as well as leading the Machine Learning and
Perception Group. His current projects are in the field
of machine learning and computer vision.
Bishop is professor of
computer science at the University of Edinburgh, where
he is a member of the Institute for Adaptive and Neural
Computation in the Division of Informatics. Bishop is a
fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a fellow of
Darwin College, Cambridge, and a fellow of the British
Computer Society. In 2004 he was elected fellow of the
Royal Academy of Engineering.
Bishop obtained a
bachelor of art degree in physics from the University of
Oxford and a doctorate in theoretical physics from the
University of Edinburgh, with a thesis on quantum
field theory. He then joined Culham Laboratory where he
worked on the theory of magnetically confined plasmas as
part of the European controlled fusion program.
From that, he developed
an interest in pattern recognition and became head of
the Applied Neurocomputing Centre at AEA Technology. In
1993, Bishop was elected as a chairman in the Department
of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Aston
University, where he was a member of the Neural
Computing Research Group. Bishop then took a sabbatical
during which he was principal organizer of the six-month
international research program on neural networks and
machine learning at the Isaac Newton Institute for
Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, which ran in 1997.
After completion of the
Newton Institute program Bishop joined
the Microsoft Research Laboratory in Cambridge. |
