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Honors and Awards:  University of Pennsylvania Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence by Non-Standing Faculty - 2019, Columbia University Presidential Teaching Award - 2007

Research Expertise: Computer Science Education | Software Engineering

Professor Murphy has been a teaching-track faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania since 2010, and his current academic interests include diversity, inclusion, and mental health in Computer Science; student contributions to open source software projects; and online learning. Prior to joining the faculty at Penn, Professor Murphy completed a PhD in Computer Science at Columbia University, where his research focused on software testing, and he previously worked as a professional software engineer in Boston, San Francisco, and London after earning a BS in Computer Engineering from Boston University.

Education:
PhD Computer Science 2010 - Columbia University