Credentials
Kevin M. Storer, Ph.D.
Enterprise AI Strategy
Kevin M. Storer, Ph.D. is an enterprise AI modernization specialist with a decade of experience developing digital technologies from circuit design to human evaluation — for both 0-to-1 product launches and systems serving billions of users. As author of the industry's first validated model of organizational AI success, his research has opened nine-figure marketing pipelines to leading AI providers and driven high-touch client transformations for their strategic enterprise accounts. His public scholarship has been downloaded over 100,000 times by industry decision-makers and cited in over 100 international news outlets including NPR, CNN, and Newsweek, shaping the global conversation on industry standards for AI-driven development. Drawing from expertise spanning software, hardware, and organizational dynamics, Kevin delivers actionable strategic guidance to executives navigating the business-critical process of AI modernization, offering credible, independent perspective in a market dominated by non-experts and vendor interests.
Education
[2021]Ph.D., Informatics. University of California, Irvine.
Professional Background
[2025–]Storer Enterprise Strategy, LLC. Independent Consultant.
[2021–25]Google. Senior Researcher.
[2017–21]University of California, Irvine. Graduate Researcher.
[2015–17]Clemson University. Graduate Researcher.
Selected Press
[2025]NPR. Tech CEOs say the era of 'code by AI' is here. Some software engineers are skeptical. By Huo Jingnan.
[2025]CNN. Google says 90% of tech workers are now using AI at work. By Lisa Eadicicco.
[2025]Business Insider. Google’s senior director of product explains how software engineering jobs are changing in the AI era. By Ana Altchek.
[2025]Newsweek. Despite Using AI, Only a Quarter of Tech Workers Trust It. By Suzanne Blake.
[2025]Observer. Google Study Shows A.I. Writes Code, But Developers Still Don’t Fully Trust It. By Victor Dey.
[2025]TechCrunch. How Google’s dev tools manager makes AI coding work. By Russell Brandom.
[2025]Digit News. AI Adoption Hits 90% Among Developers, Google Report Finds. By Graham Turner.
[2025]The Register. Google-sponsored DORA report reframes AI as central to software development. By Tim Anderson.
[2025]InfoQ. DORA Report Finds AI Is an Amplifier in Software Development, But Trust Remains Low. By Matt Saunders.
[2025]TechRepublic. Google DORA Research: Software Developers Use AI 'Heavily'. By Megan Crouse.
Speaking
[S.19]National Science Foundation & Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. San Francisco, CA, USA. Beyond Code: AI & Trustworthy Software. February 25, 2026.
[S.18]University of California, Irvine. Irvine, CA, USA. Researching in the Spotlight: Public Scholarship & Science Communication. November 12, 2025.
[S.17]DORA Community Discussion. Virtual. DORA 2025 State of AI-assisted Software Development: Report Highlights. September 25, 2025.
[S.16]DORA Sponsor Preview. Virtual. DORA 2025 State of AI-assisted Software Development Report: Preview. September 22, 2025.
[S.15]Gathr.ai. Los Gatos, CA, USA. Generative Artificial Intelligence in Development: Findings from DORA 2024. December 15, 2024.
[S.14]DORA Community Discussion. Virtual. Developers’ AI Adoption and Attitudes. November 30, 2024.
[S.13]Clemson University School of Computing. Clemson, SC, USA. Career Pathways in Computing. November 15, 2024.
[S.12]National Science Foundation & Computing Research Association. Virtual. Promoting Diversity in Graduate Computing. November 14, 2024.
[S.11]Steckler Center for Responsible, Ethical, and Accessible Technology. Irvine, CA, USA. Supporting Blind-Parent/Child Reading through Deinstitutional Design Perspectives in Homes. March 15, 2021.
[S.10]Google Cloud. Seattle, WA, USA. Writing Accessible Technical Documentation. December 07, 2020.
[S.09]Google Cloud. Seattle, WA, USA. Non-Visual Accessibility in Technical Information Seeking. September 25, 2020.
[S.08]Google Search. Mountain View, CA, USA. Understanding Voice Assistant Use in Mixed-Visual-Ability Families. December 11, 2019.
[S.07]University of California, Irvine. Irvine, CA, USA. Pragmatism, Embodiment, and Experience. October 16, 2018.
[S.06]University of California, Irvine. Irvine, CA, USA. Agile Software Development. February 08, 2018.
[S.05]University of California, Irvine. Irvine, CA, USA. Time Management for Software Development Teams. January 12, 2018.
[S.04]University of California, Irvine. Irvine, CA, USA. Human Resource Management for Software Development Teams. November 14, 2017.
[S.03]University of California, Irvine. Irvine, CA, USA. Software Development Teams and Conflict Management. October 19, 2017.
[S.02]Clemson University. Clemson, SC, USA. Developing Software for Error-Prone Devices. September 08, 2016.
[S.01]Clemson University. Clemson, SC, USA. Allocating and Managing Virtual Memory. April 07, 2016.
Publications
Industry Reports
[I.11]Abey Stenman, Bre Arder, Kevin M. Storer, Katharine Norwood. Understanding Builder Intent in the AI Era. Google Cloud. October 2025. — Download
[I.10]Derek DeBellis, Kevin M. Storer, Nathen Harvey, Matt Beane, Rob Edwards, Edward Fraser, Ben Good, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Gene Kim, Eric Maxwell, Sarah D’Angelo, Sarah Inman, Ambar Murillo, Daniella Villalba. DORA 2025 State of AI-assisted Software Development Report. Google Cloud. September 2025. — Download
[I.09]Sarah D’Angelo, Ambar Murillo, Sarah Inman, Kevin M. Storer. Choosing Measurement Frameworks to Fit your Organizational Goals. Google Cloud. September 2025. — Download
[I.08]Kevin M. Storer, Derek DeBellis. Introducing the DORA AI Capabilities Model: 7 Keys to succeeding in AI-assisted software development. Google Cloud. September 2025. — Download
[I.07]Kevin M. Storer. Concerns Beyond the Accuracy of AI Output. Google Cloud. July 2025. — Download
[I.06]Derek DeBellis, Kevin M. Storer, Daniella Villalba, Nathen Harvey, Sarah D’Angelo, Adam Brown. DORA Impact of Generative AI in Software Development. Google Cloud. March 2025. — Download
[I.05]Kevin M. Storer. How Gen AI Affects the Value of Development Work. Google Cloud. December 2024. — Download
[I.04]Derek DeBellis, Kevin M. Storer, Amanda Lewis, Benjamin Good, Daniella Villalba, Eric Maxwell, Kim Castillo, Michelle Irvine, Nathen Harvey. 2024 Accelerate State of DevOps Report. Google Cloud. November 2024. — Download
[I.03]Kevin M. Storer, Derek DeBellis, Sarah D’Angelo, Adam Brown. Fostering Developers’ Trust in Generative Artificial Intelligence. Google Cloud. September 2024. — Download
[I.02]Derek DeBellis, Kevin M. Storer. DORA Report Preview - AI in the Workplace: Adoption and Impact. Google Cloud. August 2024. — Download
[I.01]Derek DeBellis, Amanda Lewis, Daniella Villalba, Dave Farley, Eric Maxwell, James Brookbank, Jeffrey Winer, Kevin M. Storer, Kim Castillo, Michelle Irvine, Nathen Harvey, Steve McGhee. Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2023. Google Cloud. September 2023. — Download
Journal Articles
[J.01]Ali Abdolrahmani, Kevin M. Storer, Antony Rishin Mukkath Roy, Ravi Kuber, Stacy M. Branham. Blind Leading the Sighted: Drawing Design Insights from Blind Users towards More Productivity-oriented Voice Interfaces. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS), Volume 12, Issue 4, January 2020, Article 18, 35 pages. [2 Year Impact Factor: 2.64] — Download
Conference Proceedings Articles
[C.07]Kevin M. Storer, Stacy M. Branham. Deinstitutionalizing Independence: Discourses of Disability and Housing in Accessible Computing. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Accessible Computing (ASSETS '21), October 18-22, 2021, Virtual Event. [29% acceptance rate] — Download
[C.06]Kevin M. Storer, Harini Sampath, M. Alice Merrick. "It's Just Everything Outside of the IDE that's the Problem": Information Seeking by Software Developers with Visual Impairments. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21), May 8-13, 2021, Yokohama, Japan. [26.3% acceptance rate] — Download
[C.05]Kevin M. Storer, Tejinder K. Judge, Stacy M. Branham. "All in the Same Boat": Tradeoffs of Voice Assistant Ownership for Mixed-Visual-Ability Families. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20), April 25-30, 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA. [24% acceptance rate] — Download
[C.04]Kevin M. Storer, Stacy M. Branham. "That's the Way Sighted People Do It": What Blind Parents Can Teach Technology Designers About Co-Reading with Children. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '19), June 23-28, 2019, San Diego, CA, USA. [25% acceptance rate] Honorable Mention for Best Paper (Top 2%) — Download
[C.03]Fatema Akbar, Ayse Elvan Bayraktaroglu, Pradeep Buddharaju, Dennis Rodrigo Da Cunha Silva, Ge Gao, Ted Grover, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna, Nathan Cooper Jones, Gloria Mark, Ioannis Pavlidis, Kevin Storer, Zelun Wang, Amanveer Wesley, Shaila Zaman. Email Makes You Sweat: Examining Email Interruptions and Stress Using Thermal Imaging. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19), May 4-9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland. [23.8% acceptance rate] — Download
[C.02]Josiah Hester, Kevin Storer, Jacob Sorber. Timely Execution on Intermittently Powered Batteryless Sensors. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys '17), November 5-8, 2017, Delft, The Netherlands. [17.2% acceptance rate] — Download
[C.01]Josiah Hester, Travis Peters, Tianlong Yun, Ronald Peterson, Joseph Skinner, Bhargav Golla, Kevin Storer, Steven Hearndon, Kevin Freeman, Sarah Lord, Ryan Halter, David Kotz, Jacob Sorber. Amulet: An Energy-Efficient, Multi-Application Wearable Platform. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys '16), November 14-16, 2016, Stanford, CA, USA. [17.6% acceptance rate] — Download
Workshop Papers
[W.07]Kevin M. Storer. A Deinstitutional Perspective on Domestic Accessibility: Three Tenets for Accessible Computing Research in Homes. Human Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC '21), June 21-24, 2021, Online Event.
[W.06]Kevin M. Storer. Social Interaction as Sensory Augmentation?. Rethinking the Senses: A Workshop on Multisensory Embodied Experiences and Disability Interactions, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21), May 8-13, 2021, Yokohama, Japan.
[W.05]Kevin M. Storer, Stacy M. Branham. Reframing Homes and Families in Accessibility. Nothing About Us Without Us: Investigating the Role of Critical Disability Studies in HCI, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20), April 25-30, 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA.
[W.04]Shengjie Bi, Ellen Davernport, Jun Gong, Ronald Peterson, Joseph Skinner, Kevin Storer, Tao Wang, Kelly Caine, Ryan Halter, David Kotz, Kofi Odame, Jacob Sorber, Xing-Dong Yang. Poster: Auracle: A Wearable Device for Detecting and Monitoring Eating Behavior. Proceedings of the ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys '17), June 19-23, 2017, Niagara Falls, NY, USA.
[W.03]Matthew Furlong, Josiah Hester, Kevin Storer, Jacob Sorber. Realistic Simulation for Tiny Batteryless Sensors. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems (ENSsys '16), November 14-16, 2016, Stanford, CA, USA.
[W.02]Josiah Hester, Travis Peters, Tianlong Yun, Ronald Peterson, Joseph Skinner, Bhargav Golla, Kevin Storer, Steven Hearndon, Kevin Freeman, Sarah Lord, Ryan Halter, David Kotz, Jacob Sorber. The Amulet Wearable Platform: Demo Abstract. Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys '16), November 14-16, 2016, Stanford, CA, USA.
[W.01]Josiah Hester, Kevin Storer, Lanny Sitanayah, Jacob Sorber. Towards A Language and Runtime for Intermittently-Powered Devices. Workshop on Hilariously Low-Power Computing, ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '16), April 2-6, 2016, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Teaching
[2019]University of California, Irvine. Digital Embodiments.
[2018]University of California, Irvine. Interactive Technology.
[2018]University of California, Irvine. Project Management.
[2017]University of California, Irvine. Project Management.
[2015]Clemson University. Assembly Language.
Service
[2025]Association for Computing Machinery. Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI). Reviewer.
[2023]Association for Computing Machinery. Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI). Reviewer.
[2020]Association for Computing Machinery. Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI). Reviewer.
[2020]Association for Computing Machinery. Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI). Papers Accessibility.
[2025]Google. Award for Inclusion Research. Project Sponsor.
[2024]Google. Award for Inclusion Research. Reviewer.
[2023]Google. Award for Inclusion Research. Reviewer.
[2022]Google. Award for Inclusion Research. Reviewer.
[2023]Association for Computing Machinery. IMWUT (Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technology). Reviewer.
[2022]Association for Computing Machinery. CSCW (Computer-Supported Cooperative Work). Reviewer.
[2021]Association for Computing Machinery. Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS). Volunteer Staff.
[2020]Association for Computing Machinery. Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS). Paper Session Co-Chair.
[2019]Taylor & Francis. Mind, Culture, and Activity: An International Journal. Reviewer.
[2019]Association for Computing Machinery. SIGCHI Working Group on Promoting Accessibility. Member.