Gail Murphy, University of British Columbia

Research

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Software Engineering

Latest funding

Improving Software Quality through Effective Decision Support
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$192,000
Supporting developer workflows
NSERC · 2018 · Co-investigator
$401,800
Automating the location and manipulation of user concepts in code
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$24,610

All 21 grants and awards

No publications available.

Improving Software Quality through Effective Decision Support

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Murphy, Gail

Keywords: software engineering; software development; software productivity tools; software evolution; software developer studies; software analysis; recommendation systems

$192,000

Supporting developer workflows

Co-investigatorNSERC2018Collaborative Research and Development Grants

Principal investigators: Holmes, Reid

$401,800

Automating the location and manipulation of user concepts in code

Principal investigatorNSERC2017Engage Grants Program

Principal investigators: Murphy, Gail

$24,610

Automating the creation and handling of software defects

Principal investigatorNSERC2016Engage Grants Program

Principal investigators: Murphy, Gail

$24,470

Enabling Effective Design Decisions during Software Development

Principal investigatorNSERC2016Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Murphy, Gail

$378,000

Generating documents for agile developments

Principal investigatorNSERC2012Engage Grants Program

Principal investigators: Murphy, Gail

$22,747

Systemic software analysis and maintenance techniques for Web 2.0 applications

Co-investigatorNSERC2012Strategic Projects - Group

Principal investigators: Mesbah, Ali

$483,000

Improving Command Discovery for Software Developers

Principal investigatorNSERC2011Collaborative Research and Development Grants

Principal investigators: Murphy, Gail

$71,102

Software evolution concern summarization and explanation

Principal investigatorNSERC2010Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Murphy, Gail

$215,000

Network for the engineering of complex software intensive systems for automotive systems - NECSIS

Co-investigatorNSERC2009Automotive Partnership Canada Project

Principal investigators: Maibaum, Thomas

$10,575,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Software Engineering Dear Professor Murphy, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on software engineering connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "Improving Software Quality through Effective Decision Support" (2022), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]