Gail C. Murphy

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/

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]

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: ACM Distinguished Member ^{[4] [5]}
• 2014: University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Alumni Achievement Award ^[6]
• 2015: Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada ^[7]
• 2016: ICSE Most Influential Paper Award (10 years after publication) (co-authored with John Anvik and Lyndon Hiew) ^[8]
• 2017: ACM Fellow ^[9]
• 2023: ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award ^[10]

References

1. "Executive Biographies | UBC Research". research.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
2. "Learn More About Our Solutions | Tasktop". www.tasktop.com. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
3. Nuseibeh, B. (1 May 2013). "Editorial [new associate editors]". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 39 (5): 588–590. doi:10.1109/TSE.2013.22. ISSN   0098-5589.
4. Virginia Gold. "ACM Names 47 Distinguished Members for Computing Innovations". Association for Computing Machinery . Retrieved January 12, 2026.
5. "Gail C Murphy - Award Winner". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
6. "CSE Alumni Achievement Awards | Computer Science & Engineering". www.cs.washington.edu. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
7. "The Royal Society of Canada Names New Fellows | The Royal Society of Canada". www.rsc-src.ca. Archived from the original on 1 March 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
8. Anvik, John; Hiew, Lyndon; Murphy, Gail C. (1 January 2006). "Who should fix this bug?". Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering. ICSE '06. New York, NY, USA: ACM. pp. 361–370. doi:10.1145/1134285.1134336. ISBN   978-1595933751. S2CID   1384439.
9. ACM Recognizes 2017 Fellows for Making Transformative Contributions and Advancing Technology in the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, December 11, 2017, retrieved 2017-11-13
10. Outstanding Research Award, Association for Computing Machinery , retrieved 9 March 2023