Vice-President Research & Innovation & Professor of Computer Science University of British Columbia
Gail C. Murphy (she/her) is a Professor of Computer Science and Vice-President Research and Innovation at the University of British Columbia.
Dr. Murphy’s research focuses on improving the productivity of software developers and knowledge workers by providing the necessary tools to identify, manage and coordinate the information that matters most for their work.
After completing her B.Sc. (Honours) at the University of Alberta in 1987, she worked for five years as a software engineer in the Lower Mainland. She later pursued graduate studies in computer science at the University of Washington, earning first a M.Sc. (1994) and then a Ph.D. (1996) before joining UBC.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), as well as co-founder of Tasktop Technologies Incorporated.
She has been a member of the PIMS Board of Directors since 2016.
