| Honorific Prefix: | Professor |
| Gail C. Murphy | |
| Honorific Suffix: | Ph.D. |
| Citizenship: | Canadian |
| Fields: | software engineering, computer science |
| Workplaces: | University of British Columbia |
| Education: | University of Alberta (BS 1987), University of Washington (Ph.D. 1995) |
| Doctoral Advisor: | David Notkin |
| Thesis Title: | Lightweight structural summarization as an aid to software evolution |
| Thesis Url: | https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/6976/9704521.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |
| Thesis Year: | 1996 |
| Known For: | Reflexion Models, Software Engineering |
| Awards: | ACM Fellow (2017) |
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.[1] Murphy is co-founder and was Chief Scientist at Tasktop Technologies Incorporated.[2]
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]
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
2023: ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award