Gail Murphy
Vice-President Research And Innovation
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolGail Murphy is a research-driven technology leader and educator who serves as Vice-President Research and Innovation and a longtime Professor at the University of British Columbia, combining over three decades of academic and industry experience. Her work focuses on improving how developers and other professionals interact with complex information structures, with deep expertise in software reverse engineering, empirical studies of programmers, and software engineering education. She co-founded Tasktop to translate research insights into products that reclaim developers’ time, demonstrating a rare ability to move from theory to impactful commercialization. Active on multiple boards across science, digital research, and economic development, she brings governance experience informed by an ICD.D credential and a PhD in Computer Science. An unexpected throughline in her career is pairing legal expertise with empirical methods to make software practices both more effective and more accountable.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of WashingtonBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of AlbertaICD.D Institute of Corporate Directors Directors Education Program, ICD.D Institute of Corporate Directors Directors Education Program at University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
Github Skills (7)
python6
science6
react6
machine-learning5
javascript5
data-science4
data-analysis4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
ubccpsc/410
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:21 commits, 21 pushes in 2 days
ds4se/chapters
Sep 2015 - Feb 2016
Perspectives on Data Science for Software Engineering
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 3 comments in 4 months
data-analysispythonsciencedata-sciencemachine-learning
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