Gail C. Murphy

Gail C. Murphy is a Canadian computer scientist who specializes in software engineering and knowledge worker productivity. Murphy is a full professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. In 2016, she was named Associate Vice President Research pro tem and assumed the role of Vice-President, Research & Innovation on August 14, 2017. Murphy is co-founder and was Chief Scientist at Tasktop Technologies Incorporated.

Biography

Murphy received her B.Sc. from the University of Alberta in 1987 and a M.S. and a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Washington, in 1994 and 1996 respectively. Murphy has served on editorial boards for Communications of the ACM, and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Software Engineering.

Awards

2010: ACM Distinguished Member
2014: University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Alumni Achievement Award
2015: Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
2016: ICSE Most Influential Paper Award
2017: ACM Fellow
2023: ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award