Kevin Moran
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida, where he directs the SAGE Research Lab and is affiliated with the CyberSP Cluster.
About
Kevin Moran is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida, where he directs the SAGE Research Lab. He was previously an Assistant Professor at George Mason University from 2020–2023. He earned his B.A. in Physics with a Computer Science minor from the College of the Holy Cross (2013), and his M.S. (2015) and Ph.D. (2018) in Computer Science from William & Mary, advised by Dr. Denys Poshyvanyk.
His main research interests include software engineering, security, maintenance, and evolution. He also explores applications of machine learning to data mined from software repositories to build practical automated tools for developers. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and multiple Distinguished Paper Awards.
Latest News
- March 2026: I have been recognized as a “Reach for the Stars” awardee by UCF for 2026 — the university's highest honor given to pre-tenure faculty. Thanks UCF!
- December 2025: The first SAGE Lab Ph.D. student has graduated! Congrats to Arun Krishna Vajjala for defending his dissertation “Beyond the Pixel: AI-Augmented Programming Tools” and joining Apple as a Machine Learning Research Engineer.
- December 2025: One technical paper on Mechanistic Interpretability of LLMs for Code published at NeurIPS'25! Congrats to our collaborators at GMU.
- December 2025: I have been recognized as a Rising Star by the Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL).
- August 2025: One technical paper on Automated Test Oracle Generation accepted to ASE'25! Congrats to SAGE Lab member Junayed Mahmud.
- July 2025: One tool-demo paper on UI-Enhanced Bug Localization published at ICSME'25! Congrats to the UCF Senior Design Team and SAGE Lab member Junayed Mahmud.
- January 2025: I have received the NSF CAREER Award for advancing the future of UI Engineering! Thank you to all my students and collaborators.
- January 2025: One technical paper on Automatically Assessing Bug Report Quality accepted to ICPC'25! Congrats to SAGE Lab member Junayed.
- December 2024: The SAGE Lab has received a research award from Apple's Human-Centered Machine Learning group for our work on UI Engineering!