Dr. Margaret-Anne Storey is a Professor of Computer Science and a Canada Research Chair in Human and Social Aspects of Software Engineering. 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. She 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.

Awards and Activities

• Canada Research Chair, Tier I, Social Aspects of Software Engineering, 2015-
• Honorary Doctorate, LTH Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, Sweden, 2024
• MSR Foundational Contribution Award, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2024
• Fellow, Collegium Helveticum Joint Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) of ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich, and the Zurich University of the Arts, 2023
• Best Paper Award, How Developers and Managers Define and Trade Quality for Productivity, International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE), 2022
• Visiting Faculty Award, University of Bari, 2020, 2022
• Verena Meyer Visiting Professor, University of Zurich, 2020
• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, “How Was Your Weekend?” Software Development Teams Working From Home During COVID-19, 2021
• ICSE 2020 Distinguished Reviewer Award
• Awarded the Lise Meitner Guest Professorship at Lund University in Sweden, 2016-2018
• Award for Teaching Excellence, Faculty of Engineering University of Victoria, 2017
• Council Member, BC Premier’s Technology Council, 2017
• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, Work practices and challenges in pull-based development: the contributor’s perspective, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2016
• Canada Research Chair, Tier II, Software and Knowledge Visualization, renewed as Human Computer Interaction for Software Engineering, 2005-2015
• Member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, 2014-2020
• Director, UVic Software Engineering Program, 2015-2018
• Principal Investigator for the US National Center for Biomedical Ontologies, 2005-2015
• Member of the Health Informatics and Modeling Topic Advisory Group (HIM-TAG) for the World Health Organization, 2011-2012
• Most Influential Paper Award from 2001, Shrimp views: An interactive environment for exploring Java programs, IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2011
• NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement award, 2010-2012
• Craigdarroch Silver Medal for Excellence in Research, University of Victoria, 2010
• IBM CAS Faculty of the Year, 2005
• IBM Eclipse innovation awards, 2003-2005
• Advanced System Institute Fellowship, 1998-2003