Gail C. Murphy

Professor
Gail C. Murphy
Ph.D.
Gail Murphy FRSC
Murphy in 2017
CitizenshipCanadian
EducationUniversity of Alberta (BS 1987), University of Washington (Ph.D. 1995)
Known forReflexion Models, Software Engineering
AwardsACM Fellow (2017)
Scientific career
Fieldssoftware engineering, computer science
InstitutionsUniversity of British Columbia
ThesisLightweight structural summarization as an aid to software evolution (1996)
Doctoral advisorDavid Notkin
Websiteblogs.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: 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]

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. ^ "Gail C Murphy - Award Winner". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  5. ^ "CSE Alumni Achievement Awards | Computer Science & Engineering". www.cs.washington.edu. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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
  9. ^ Outstanding Research Award, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 9 March 2023