Comprehensive CV | Kevin M. Storer, Ph.D.

Kevin M. Storer, Ph.D.

Public Scholar · AI & the Future of Work

kevin@kevinstorer.com | kevinstorer.com

Dr. Kevin M. Storer is a public scholar and executive advisor specializing in the sociotechnical dimensions of AI-driven work. Bridging the gap between rigorous empirical data and executive strategy, his work fundamentally shifts how organizations understand the human infrastructure required for successful AI modernization. During his tenure as Senior Researcher at Google and Ethnographic Lead for DORA, Kevin developed the theoretical framework for the world’s first validated model of organizational AI success. This industry-defining research earned him invitations to shape global AI policy and governance at highly selective consortia hosted by the National Science Foundation and the Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics. Today, his public scholarship has been downloaded over 100,000 times by industry decision-makers and cited by more than 100 international news outlets, including NPR, CNN, and Newsweek. Grounded in a Ph.D. in Informatics and over a decade of research spanning hardware, software, and organizational dynamics, Kevin partners with enterprise leadership to design the deliberate, top-down structural shifts required to sustain worker well-being and maximize AI ROI.

Education

2021

Ph.D., Informatics, University of California, Irvine
Advisor: Stacy Branham

2017

M.S., Computer Science, Clemson University
Advisor: Jacob Sorber

2015

B.S., Computer Science, Bowling Green State University
Minor: Physical Sciences

Professional Background

2025 – present

Storer Enterprise Strategy, LLC — Independent Researcher & Public Scholar

2021 – 2025

Google — Senior Researcher

2017 – 2021

University of California, Irvine — Graduate Researcher

2015 – 2017

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.12] Ameer Abbas, Derek DeBellis, et al. (incl. Kevin M. Storer). DORA AI Capabilities Model. Google Cloud, November 2025. — Download

[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

Association for Computing Machinery. Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI). Reviewer (2025, 2023, 2020), Papers Accessibility (2020).

Google. Award for Inclusion Research. Project Sponsor (2025), Reviewer (2024, 2023, 2022).

Association for Computing Machinery. IMWUT (Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technology). Reviewer (2023).

Association for Computing Machinery. CSCW (Computer-Supported Cooperative Work). Reviewer (2022).

Association for Computing Machinery. Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS). Volunteer Staff (2021), Paper Session Co-Chair (2020).

Taylor & Francis. Mind, Culture, and Activity: An International Journal. Reviewer (2019).

Association for Computing Machinery. SIGCHI Working Group on Promoting Accessibility. Member (2019).