Kevin Murphy is a research scientist at Google in Mountain View,
California, where he works on AI, machine learning, computer vision,
and natural language understanding.
Before joining Google in 2011, he was an associate professor (with tenure)
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
80 papers in refereed conferences and journals, as well as an
1100-page textbook called "Machine Learning: a Probabilistic
Perspective" (MIT Press, 2012), which was awarded the 2013 DeGroot
Prize for best book in the field of Statistical Science.
Kevin was also the (co) Editor-in-Chief of JMLR (the Journal of
Machine Learning Research) 2014--2017.