Kevin P. Murphy

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 statisticsat the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. In 2011, he went toGoogle in Mountain View, California for his sabbatical. In 2012, heconverted to a full-time research scientist position at Google. Kevin haspublished over 50 papers in refereed conferences and journals relatedto machine learning and graphical models. He has recently publishedan 1100-page textbook called "Machine Learning: a ProbabilisticPerspective" (MIT Press, 2012).