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.

[1] Murphy is co-founder and was Chief Scientist at Tasktop Technologies Incorporated.

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[8] 2023: ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award[9]