Dr. Emerson Murphy-Hill is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft, improving developer experience with AI-based developer tools. Before that, he was a Staff Research Scientist with Engineering Productivity Research at Google, leading a project to improve diversity and inclusion for software developers. Before Google, he was an Associate Professor at North Carolina State University. His research spans human-computer interaction and software engineering, and has been awarded six ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards, an NSF CAREER Award, a VL/HCC Best Paper Award, and a Microsoft Software Engineering Innovation Foundation award.