Emerson Murphy-hill
Principal Research Scientist at Microsoft
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolEmerson Murphy-hill is a Principal Research Scientist with 12 years of experience studying human-AI collaboration and developer productivity, currently on Microsoft’s PROSE team in Sunnyvale. His career blends rigorous academic research and large-scale industry impact—from founding Google’s Software Developer Diversity and Inclusion Research team to leading award-winning, peer-reviewed studies that changed code review and tool design. He builds data-driven interventions by combining developer behavioral logs with demographic analytics and causal inference, and has a track record of securing executive sponsorship to deploy experiments company-wide. Previously a tenured professor who founded the Developer Liberation Front and raised multimillion-dollar research funding, he brings deep expertise in mixed-methods studies, ML-driven developer categorization, and practical tool redesign. An intriguing throughline: his work repeatedly uncovers subtle social biases in engineering processes and then designs measurable, system-level fixes that scale.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at The Evergreen State CollegePh.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Portland State University
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Github Skills (89)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DeveloperLiberationFront/bibtex-library
Feb 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 41 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
DeveloperLiberationFront/MiniJava
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:47 commits, 11 pushes in 12 days
compilerx86llvm-compilerinterpreterllvm
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