Science World has hired UBC computer science professor Gail Murphy to be its new president and CEO starting Oct. 5.
Murphy recently concluded a nine-year stint as UBC’s vice-president of research and innovation. She has spent much of her career as a researcher in software engineering, creating tools to help software developers manage large codebases and work more productively, according to Science World.
Her business experience includes co-founding Tasktop Technologies, a UBC spinout venture that provided enterprise software solutions and raised US$100 million in seed funding before Plainview acquired it in 2022.
Murphy is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and at the Association for Computing Machinery. She has served on several boards including for Canada’s
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