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).