Gail C. Murphy

Gail C. Murphy FRSC 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.^[1] Murphy is co-founder and was Chief Scientist at Tasktop Technologies Incorporated.^[2]

Professor Gail C. Murphy Ph.D.
Murphy in 2017
Citizenship	Canadian
Education	University of Alberta (BS 1987), University of Washington (Ph.D. 1995)
Known for	Reflexion Models, Software Engineering
Awards	ACM Fellow (2017)
Scientific career
Fields	software engineering, computer science
Institutions	University of British Columbia
Thesis	Lightweight structural summarization as an aid to software evolution (1996)
Doctoral advisor	David Notkin
Website	blogs.ubc.ca/gailcmurphy/

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.^[3]

Awards

2010: Named ACM Distinguished Member^[4]

2014: University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Alumni Achievement Award^[5]

2015: Named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada^[6]

2016: ICSE Most Influential Paper Award (10 years after publication) (co-authored with John Anvik and Lyndon Hiew)^[7]

2017: ACM Fellow^[8]

2023: ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award^[9]