Author

Kevin P. Murphy

Machine-learning research scientist at Google DeepMind; formerly associate professor at the University of British Columbia

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Kevin Patrick Murphy was born in Ireland, grew up in England (BA from Cambridge),

and went to graduate school in the USA (MEng from U. Penn, PhD from UC Berkeley,

Postdoc at MIT). In 2004, he became a professor of computer science and statistics

at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. In 2011, he went to

Google in Mountain View, California for his sabbatical. In 2012, he

converted to a full-time research scientist position at Google. Kevin has

published over 50 papers in refereed conferences and journals related

to machine learning and graphical models. He has recently published

an 1100-page textbook called "Machine Learning: a Probabilistic

Perspective" (MIT Press, 2012).

Notable works Machine Learning: A Probabilistic PerspectiveProbabilistic Machine Learning: An IntroductionProbabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics

HonoursDeGroot Prize for Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective