fellow

Margaret-Anne Storey

2023-2024
Home institution
University of Victoria, CA
Country of origin (home institution)
Canada
Discipline(s)
Engineering; Others
Theme(s)
Artificial Intelligence; Digital Society; Other
Fellowship dates
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Biography

Margaret-Anne Storey is a professor of computer science at the University of Victoria in Canada. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Human and Social Aspects of Software Engineering and is a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. Together with her students and collaborators, she seeks to understand how software tools, communication media, data visualizations, and social theories can be leveraged to improve how software engineers and knowledge workers explore, understand, analyze, and share complex information and knowledge.

Margaret-Anne has published widely on these topics and collaborates extensively with high-tech companies and non-profit organizations to ensure real-world applicability of her research contributions and tools. For the past several years, she consults with Microsoft and getDX to understand and improve developer productivity and developer experience. During fall 2023, she holds the Verena Meyer Visiting Professorship at the University of Zurich. 

Research Project
How AI is Impacting Productivity in Software Engineering

As a senior fellow at the Collegium Helveticum and as academic visitor to the Faculty of Economics, Business, and Informatics at the University of Zurich, Margaret-Anne Storey will investigate how AI and large language models impact developer flow, developer experience, developer productivity, and developer tools (e.g., code review).

These projects will involve empirical studies to observe software developers as they work on large scale software development in large software teams. She will furthermore present talks on disruptive automation technologies in software engineering, such as AI, software bots, and social media, highlighting the benefits of these automations but also their risks.

Research Interests:

software development