Chris Bishop is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and is the Director of Microsoft Research AI4Science. He is a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. He is a keen advocate of public engagement in science, and in 2008 he delivered the prestigious Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, established in 1825 by Michael Faraday, and broadcast on prime-time national television. Chris was a founding member of the UK AI Council and was also appointed to the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology.
Hugh Bishop is an Applied Scientist at Wayve, an end-to-end deep learning based autonomous driving company in London, where he designs and trains deep neural networks. Before working at Wayve, he completed his MPhil in Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence in the engineering department at Cambridge University. Hugh also holds an MEng in Computer Science from the University of Durham, where he focused his projects on deep learning. During his studies, he also worked as an intern at FiveAI, another autonomous driving company in the UK, and as a Research Assistant, producing educational interactive iPython notebooks for machine learning courses at Cambridge University.
