About:
Kevin Moran is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida where he is also affiliated with the Cyber Security and Privacy Cluster (CyberSP) and directs the SAGE Research Lab. He was previously an Assistant Professor at George Mason University from 2020-2023. He graduated with his B.A. in Physics with a Computer Science Minor from the College of the Holy Cross in 2013. He graduated with his M.S. in Computer Science from William & Mary in 2015, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from William & Mary in 2018, advised by Dr. Denys Poshyvanyk. His main research interests include software engineering, security, maintenance, and evolution. Additionally, he explores applications of machine learning to data mined from software repositories in order to build practical automated tools for developers. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and multiple Distinguished Paper Awards at top Software Engineering and Computer Security Conferences.
Contact Info:
Office:Harris Engineering Center, Room 217A, Orlando, FL, 32816
Office Hours: By appointment (for Summer 2025)
Email:kpmoran [at] ucf [dot] edu
Phone:(407)-823-3219
Prospective Students:
I am generally always open to recruiting outstanding students who are interested in research at the intersection of software engineering and machine learning. Please visit my prospective students page for more information.
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Latest News:
-March 2026: I have been recognized as a “Reach for the Stars” awardee from UCF for 2026. This is 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 entitled “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). Thank you to the academy for this honor!!
-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 from bug reports 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 who have contributed to the work that helped form this proposal!!
-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!!