Kevin was born in Ireland, but grew up in England. He got his BA from
U. Cambridge, his MEng from U. Pennsylvania, and his PhD from UC
Berkeley. He then did a postdoc at MIT, and was an associate professor
of computer science and statistics at the University of British
Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, from 2004 to 2012. After getting
tenure, he went to Google in California on his sabbatical and then
ended up staying. He currently manages a team of 26  researchers and engineers
at Google Deepmind; the team works on generative models, reinforcement learning,
Bayesian inference, optimization, robustness, and
various other topics.
Kevin has published over 136 papers in refereed
conferences and journals, as well 3 textbooks on machine learning
published in 2012, 2022 and 2023 by MIT Press. (The 2012 book was
awarded the  DeGroot Prize for best book in the field of Statistical
Science.) Kevin was also the (co) Editor-in-Chief of JMLR 2014-2017.