TU/e EIRES: The AI revolution in scientific discovery

Prof. Chris Bishop

Chris Bishop is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and the founder of Microsoft Research AI for Science. He is also Honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh, a Fellow of Darwin College Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. 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. 

He has a PhD in theoretical physics and worked for ten years on plasma physics for the fusion programme before transitioning into machine learning. Chris joined Microsoft in 1997 and was Lab Director of Microsoft Research Cambridge from 2015 until 2022 when he founded the new AI for Science team. 

Chris is the author of the highly cited and widely adopted machine learning textbooks Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition (Oxford, 1995) and Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Springer, 2006). He recently published a new textbook Deep Learning: Foundations and Concepts which was recently confirmed as Springer-Nature’s top selling book of both 2024 and 2025.