Kevin Murphy is a research scientist at Google in Mountain View, California.
Before joining Google in 2011, he was an associate professor of computer
science and statistics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver,
Canada. Before starting at UBC in 2004, he was a postdoc at MIT.
Kevin got his BA from U. Cambridge, his MEng from U. Pennsylvania,
and his PhD from UC Berkeley. He has published over 50 papers in refereed
conferences and journals related to machine learning and graphical models,
as well as an 1100-page textbook called "Machine Learning: a Probabilistic
Perspective" (MIT Press, 2012), which is currently the best selling machine 
learning book on Amazon.com. In 2013, he will become (along with Bernhard Scholkopf) 
the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Machine Learning Research.